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Archive Report: Allied Forces

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430 Squadron Crest
19.04.1943 No. 430 Squadron Mustang I AP181 F/O. George F.R. Jackson

Operation: Training

Date: 19th April 1943 (Monday)

Unit: No. 430 Squadron (602 Squadron)

Type: Mustang I (Spitfire Vb)

Serial: AP181 (AR430)

Base: RAF Dunsfold (RAF Lasham)

Location: Hillside Farm, Odiham (Newton Cottage, Crondall)

Pilot 1: F/O. George Frederick Radcliffe Jackson J/13098 RCAF Age 21. Killed

Pilot 2: F/O. Frederick Grant Willis J/7324 RCAF Age 22. Killed

REASON FOR LOSS:

During a training exercise the two aircraft collided. F/O. Jackson attempted a landing at nearby RAF Odiham but sadly crashed en route. The Spitfire AR430 flown by F/O. Willis, crashed at Newton Cottage near Crondall. Both pilots lost their lives.

Area of training with insert, F/O. George Jackson (courtesy Sherborne School Archives  - see below)



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Burial details:

F/O. George Frederick Radcliffe Jackson. Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave 34.F.8. Further information, courtesy Sherborne School Archives: Son of George Frederick Radcliffe Jackson and Elizabeth Winchester Jackson, of Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA. Attended Sherborne School (Harper House) 1935-1939; 6th form; Prefect; Head of House.

Obituary in 'The Shirburnian', December 1944: 'G.F.R. Jackson was Head of his House in 1939. Half American by birth, when the war broke out he was in America on holiday before going up to Cambridge. After a short period at an American University, he volunteered for the RCAF, and came over to this country a trained pilot. He was killed in 1943, flying a Mustang on exercises in this country. Large in physique, he was large-hearted and generous in all he did. He had great powers of leadership and wide interests, chief of which was a passion for music. His conducting of a winning "Shout" was described by a critic at the time as an "electrifying performance," and he had the ability to put that quality into anything on which he had set his heart. His was a generous, virile and sympathetic personality.'

His grave inscription reads: “He shall cover with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou trust;”

F/O. Frederick Grant Willis. Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave 34.F.9. Son of Frederic Arthur and Ethel Norma Willis, of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

His grave inscription reads: “Greater love hath no man than this.”

Researched and dedicated to the relatives of the two pilots, With thanks to Sherborne School Archives for additional information also sources as quoted below.

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Acknowledgements
Sources used by us in compiling Archive Reports include: Bill Chorley - 'Bomber Command Losses Vols. 1-9, plus ongoing revisions', Dr. Theo E.W. Boiten and Mr. Roderick J. Mackenzie - 'Nightfighter War Diaries Vols. 1 and 2', Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt - 'Bomber Command War Diaries', Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Tom Kracker - Kracker Luftwaffe Archives, Michel Beckers, Major Fred Paradie (RCAF) and Captain François Dutil (RCAF) - Paradie Archive (on this site), Jean Schadskaje, Major Jack O'Connor USAF (Retd.), Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Waldemar Wójcik and Józef Zieliński - 'Ku Czci Połeglyçh Lotnikow 1939-1945', Andrew Mielnik: Archiwum - Polish Air Force Archive (on this site), Anna Krzystek, Tadeusz Krzystek - 'Polskie Siły Powietrzne w Wielkiej Brytanii', Franek Grabowski, Polish graves: https://niebieskaeskadra.pl/, PoW Museum Żagań, Norman L.R. Franks 'Fighter Command Losses', Stan D. Bishop, John A. Hey MBE, Gerrie Franken and Maco Cillessen - Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces, Vols 1-6, Dr. Theo E.W. Boiton - Nachtjagd Combat Archives, Vols 1-13. Aircrew Remembered Databases and our own archives. We are grateful for the support and encouragement of CWGC, UK Imperial War Museum, Australian War Memorial, Australian National Archives, New Zealand National Archives, UK National Archives and Fold3 and countless dedicated friends and researchers across the world.
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