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| Sergeant Lincoln Orville Lynch DFM |
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| West Indians in the Royal Air Force: Sergeant Lincoln Orville Lynch DFM, an air gunner serving with No 102 Squadron, Royal Air Force, photographed wearing his flying kit by the rear turret of a Handley Page Halifax at Pocklington, East Yorkshire. Lynch, from Jamaica, volunteered for service in the RAF in 1942, and in 1943 won the Air Gunner's trophy for obtaining the highest percentage of his course during his training in Canada. On his first operational flight with No 102 Squadron he shot down a German Junkers Ju 88. |
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