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30 Apr 1945

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  • Flight Sergeant Edward James Wright, a Canadian air gunner in a Lancaster bomber of 428 Squadron, was killed in a crash near RAF Station Hixon in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom.. At just 16 years of age he was one of the youngest of the 20,000 Bomber Command airmen to be killed during WW2. ww2dbase [Hixon, England | AC]

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