Sgt J R Anyan (Observer) 106 Squadron

Sgt J R Anyan (Observer) 106 Squadron

A summary of the RAF career of Sergeant Dick Anyan (1259839) written by his nephew. Details are provided of two operations flown in a Handley Page Hampden (P4398) with 106 Squadron. On an operation to bomb Emden Dick Anyan's fellow airmen were: Sergeants Sporny, Johnson and White. Dick and his crew of Sergeant's Sporny, Young and Dickerson failed to return from an operation to bomb Münster on 28/29 January 1942. All four crew members were killed and buried in Düsseldorf North Cemetery. They were reinterred in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve on 2 January 1947.

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