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Flight Sargent Jack Handley

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posted on 2024-06-05, 18:59 authored by Their Finest Hour Project Team

Jack served as a Flight Sgt in the RAF. On the 10th December 1941, his plane was on a mission over Libya when it was shot down. The crew parachuted out, but they were all shot and killed on their way down. He was 21. His body is somewhere in the desert in Libya. Jack has a tree dedicated to him in the War Memorial Park in Coventry

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Photos of Jack's: RAF badge, Jack in the desert, memorial tree dedicated to him in Coventry War Memorial Park

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Flight Sargent Jack Handley

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Ros Bassnett

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He was my Great Uncle

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