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Re: W3839 was flown by Flight Sgt L Gibs. Also Whirlwind link!
Posted by Michael Clark on Sun Aug 18, 2002 05:31:10 PM
In reply top W3839 was flown by Flight Sgt L Gibs. Also Whirlwind link! posted by Paul McMillan on Sun Aug 18, 2002 07:39:24 AM
: If you look up pilot WO1 Harvey Donald Muirhead (R79587) i
: n 'They Shall Not Grow Old' it says....
:
: He was from Estevan, Saskatchewan and was killed Feb 17th
: 1943 aged 24. He was with 401 Sqn RCAF and was killed when
: his Spitfire (BM346) was in a mid-air collision with a Sp
: itfire flown by FS L Gibs. Muirheads Spitfire crashed at T
: horton House, Northallerton England. He had previously bee
: n slightly injured in an aircraft crash on November 18th 1
: 942 with 263 Sqn (Whirlwinds). He is buried at Catterick C
: emetery, Yorkshire
Thanks again Paul. I'll have to try other routes to finding out more details about Flight Sgt Gibs.
Regards
Michael