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                <text>This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.</text>
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                <text>14 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Norman Gorfunkle (1920 - 1942, 1260360 Royal Air Force) and contains photographs and documents. He flew operations as an observer with 76 Squadron and was killed 7/8 November 1942. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Lester, Russell Gellman and catalogued by Barry Hunter. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Additional information on Norman Gorfunkleis available via the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/210756/"&gt;IBCC Losses Database.&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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CT [deleted] 85 7/8 1942 76 YO/T OHMS RESENT NW 2 [symbol] GORFUNKLE [symbol] [/deleted]&#13;
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OOT 243 1.20 YOMT OHMS RESENT OF 8 TH 50&#13;
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– PRIORITY – MRS S GORFUNKLE 85 MELROSE AVE CRICKLEWOOD LONDON NW 2&#13;
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REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR SON SGT NORMAN GORFUNKLE IS REPORTED MISSING AS THE RESULT ON [sic] AIR OPERATIONS ON THE NIGHT OF 7/8 NOVEMBER 1942 LETTER FOLLOWS ANY FURTHER INFORMATION WILL BE COMMUNICATED TO YOU IMMEDIATELY = OC 76 SQDN</text>
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