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S.C.R. MACKIE.
3. (centre aligned)

F/Lt. Mackie was navigator of a Halifax bomber which took off on an operational flight on the night of 20/21st December, 1943, to attack Frankfurt, in Germany. The aircraft failed to return to its base, and all the members of the crew, including F/Lt. Mackie, were classified as missing. Later information was received from a German source through the International Red Cross Committee that he had lost his life, and was buried at St. Trond, in Beligum. In consequence he was reclassified as missing, believed killed. Later his death was officially presumed to have occurred on the 20th December, 1943.

The crew contained two other New Zealanders - F/Lt. J.N. Wright, D.F.C., of Masterton and P/O T.L. Robson, of Lincoln, Cantebury.

5/2/5564 AS2
619 hrs. as navigator.

Mrs. M.I. Mackie (M) (right aligned)
73 Vauxhall Road, (right aligned)
Devonport, AUCKLAND. (right aligned & Auckland underlined)