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J.G.A. FISK.

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After arrival in England F/Sgt. Fisk was posted on the
29th December, 1942, to No. 11 Operational Training Unit, Westcott,
Buckinghamshire, where he trained on Wellington aircraft. Early
in April he proceeded to No. 1657 Conversion Unit, Stradishall,
Suffolk, for a course on Stirling aircraft. With this unit he
took part in an air sea rescue and a number of minelayng operations
in the vicinity of the Frisian Islands. On the 15th May, 1943, he
was posted to No. 75 (NE) Squadron, Mepal, Cambridgeshire.

With this squadron he carried out, as air bomber on Stirling
aircraft, mining operations in the Bay of Biscay and the Frisian
Islands, and raids on targets in enemy territory. The latter
included Turin, Italy; and Hamburg, Essen, and Dusseldorf, in
Germany. He was promoted to the rank of Flight Sergeant on June
1st, 1943.

F/Sgt. Fisk was air bomber on a Stirling aircraft which
took off on air operations on the 31st August, 1943, to attack
Berlin, Germany and which failed to return to its base. This was
his 19th operational flight. All the members of the crew, including
F/Sgt. Fisk, were reported missing. Information received later
from Air Ministry stated that two RAF members of the crew were
taken prisoner, and that the remaining five, including F/Sgt.
Fisk, had lost their lives, on the 1st September, 1943. He was
buried in the Cemetery for Soviet Prisoners of War, Ludwigsfelde-
Heide, twenty miles south of Berlin. There were two other New
Zealanders in the crew, the pilot of the aircraft, F/Sgt. G. V.
Helm of Invercargill, and Sgt. D. M. Stewart of Stratford.

5/15/1804 AS2
320 hrs. as air bomber

Mrs. A. J. Fisk (W)
46 Field Street
Aramoho, WANGANUI.