Interview with Mike Cope
Title
Interview with Mike Cope
Description
Mike is the adopted brother of James (known as Sonny) who was in the Royal Air Force with 460 Squadron. The crew were all English apart from the Australian pilot. James was a wireless operator/mid-upper air gunner. Mike was seven in 1943 when his brother’s aircraft was shot down over the Bay of Biscay on the night of 12/13 July 1943. No bodies were recovered. James was twenty years of age. Mike’s daughter recently took her father to RAF East Kirby and the IBCC where he donated the logbook belonging to James.
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Publisher
IBCC Digital Archive
Date
2018-11-27
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Format
00:26:04 audio recording
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Identifier
ACopeM181127
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Citation
David Meanwell, “Interview with Mike Cope,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 5, 2021, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/11303.
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