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Sergeant Geoffrey Andrew Bennetts, Wireless Operator and Air Gunner in 99 Squadron, RAF. He was lost during a bombing mission on Berlin on May 9th, 1941. Bennetts was last heard calling for help at 5:20 am, posthumously MiD, LG: January 1942, see history

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Sergeant Geoffrey Andrew Bennetts, Wireless Operator and Air Gunner in 99 Squadron, RAF. He was lost during a bombing mission on Berlin on May 9th, 1941. Bennetts was last heard calling for help at 5:20 am, posthumously MiD, LG: January 1942, see history

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Group of 3 to 759219 Sergeant Geoffrey Andrew Bennetts, a Wireless Operator and Air Gunner in 99 Squadron, RAF.

On May 9th, 1941, he was on a Vickers Wellington bomber W5400 during a bombing mission over Berlin.

The aircraft was lost and Sergeant Bennetts was declared missing after he was last heard calling for help at 5:20 in the morning.

He was posthumously mentioned in Despatches in the London Gazette in January 1942.

 


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