His crew dropped food for the starving Dutch as part of Operation Manna. After the war he served with Transport Command on Yorks. He continued moving around and spent time on B-29s then Canberras at Marham. Later he and his family were sent to Kuala Lumpur then Penang on Dakotas.
On his return he was posted to Abingdon on Beverleys. This included trips to Nairobi.
He transferred to Haydock as a radio controller, after which he left the RAF and became a teacher.]]>
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Photo 1 - two Tiger Moths parked in the snow, captioned 'Tiger Moths "on the line"'.
Photo 2 - a side view of a Cornell.
Photo 3 and 4 - two different Cornells in the air, FH863 and FH872, captioned 'Several Cornells'.
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Photos 5 and 6 - side views of two Cornells, captioned 'Cornells in echelon to Starboard and Port'.
Photo 7 - an airman standing in front of a Tiger Moth.
Photo 8 - the same airman standing with a trainee, captioned 'My instructor and co-pupil F/O Hank Hicks - George Fleming'.
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Photo 9 - Hank Hicks standing in front of a Tiger Moth.
Photo 10 - Hank and Philip standing in front of a Tiger Moth. Philip is holding the propeller, captioned 'Hank and self'.
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Photo 11 - Hank and one airman in front of a Tiger Moth.
Photo 12 - Hank and two trainees in front of a Tiger Moth, captioned 'More of we intrepid aviators'.
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Photo 13 - Hank and two trainees in front of a Tiger Moth.
Photo 14 - Hank and one trainee at the nose of a Tiger Moth, captioned 'Still more of the 'I A'.]]>
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Third showing aircraft just off right wing captioned 'Friend in formation'.]]>
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