HENRY WILLIAM APARICIO
SERVICE NO. 1894252
Royal Air Force: Sergeant
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
297 Squadron, Royal Air Force
DIED: 06 June 1944
AGE: 20
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
He was a crew member of Albemarle Mk.V V1773, 297 Squadron, Royal Air Force (RAF).
They took off from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire at 19:00 on 6 June 1944 towing gliders for Operation Mallard (bringing reinforcements for 6th Airborne Division on the evening of D-Day).
He was killed when, after releasing the glider near Ranville, Calvados the aircraft was hit by a German anti-aircraft flak ship stationed in the Caen Canal and crashed near BiƩville-sur-Orne, Calvados.