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Rank Pilot Officer (Air Gnr.)
Service # J/90244
Unit # RCAF, 431 Iroquois Sqdn.

Son of Hugh H. and Margaret B. McPherson, of Blenheim, Ontario, Canada.

Mickey was reported as “officially” reported as Missing In Action in an unidentified newspaper article (P) as of 7 June 1943.

Age: 22, KIA – Date of Death: 17/06/1944, in Halifax bomber MZ 520 on Air Ops. target Sterknade, Germany, was shot down over Udenhout, Germany. All of the crew was lost.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Sources “The First 200 Years” by Alvin Armstrong. Index of Overseas Deaths. They Shall Grow Not Old. Blenheim IODE Tablet of Remembrance., HEIRS – T. Steele.
Supplemental Information Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead, Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 1. Cemetery: UDENHOUT (BIEZENMORTEL) ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY

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