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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 647

A Second War Wellington and Liberator Air Gunner's Casualty Group of Three to Air Gunner Flight Sergeant A. Lewis, Royal Air Force, Killed in Action, 4.4.1945
1939-1945 Star; Italy Star; War Medal, nearly extremely fine, with the following related items:
- The recipient's Navigator's, Air Bomber's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book, covering the period 18.2.1944-30.3.1945
- Named Air Council enclosure for the Second War Medals
- The recipient's Airman's Service and Pay Book
- Air Ministry letter, reporting the death of Flight Sergeant Lewis
- Named Buckingham Palace condolence letter
- Group photograph (3)

2217372 Flight Sergeant Albert Lewis, born 20.2.1925; enlisted in the Royal Air Force, 7.4.1943; appointed Air Gunner, 17.3.1944; served during the Second World War with No.40 Squadron, Central Mediterranean Forces (Wellingtons), based at Foggia main aerodrome, Italy, September 1944; transferred to No.104 Squadron, Central Mediterranean Forces (Liberators), March 1945; killed in action, 4.4.1945, when his Liberator, after taking off from Foggia and attacking the marshalling yards at Novska, Yugoslavia, 58 miles south east of Zagreb, caught fire in the air, exploded, and fell into the Adriatic Sea off the Yugoslavia coast; Lewis is commemorated along with his crew on the Malta Memorial.

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