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Douglas Boston wreck found in Italy

Todays Daily Telegraph reporting a group of Italian enthusiasts have unearthed a wartime RAF aircraft at Copparo near Bologna. It was shot down by AA fire 21 April 1945.
Three of the crew are British Sgt David Kennedy Raikes 20, the pilot,Flt Sgt Alexander Thomas Bostock 20 ,the radio operator and the navigator Flt Sgt David Millard Perkins 20. The fourth crew member a air gunner Warrant Officer John Penboss Hunt 21 was from Sydney,Australia seconded to the RAF.
The pilot Sgt Raikes had a book on poetry published posthumously in 1954 called “The Poems of David Raikes”. David Raikes went to Trinity College,Oxford and his teacher Charles Wrinch ensured his works were published.
The aircraft was a Boston V serial BZ590 of No.18 Squadron based at Forli.

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