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One night my sister Dorothy, wife of Wilfred, was stood at the door looking up at the sky when she saw a light in the shape of a cross, she shouted for me and my mother to come outside and have a look.

We stood with her for a while and all of a sudden the top part of the cross disapeared, then the bottom part disappeared, and then the middle part appeared in the form of Air Force wings. My sister said to my mother it was a sign that something had happened to Wilfred.

After this flight they would have been grounded. A few days later Dorothy received a telegram from the war office to say the plane had not returned from France.

Wilfred and four of the crew members are buried in a private cemetery in Cramoisy, 35 miles from Paris.

Wilfred name is in the book of remembrance for the Royal Air Force in York Minster Cathedral; his name is second one down, because the crew were stationed at Selby, Yorkshire.

The Plane went missing on the 18th of July 1944.

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