520

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flights the targets including Cologne, Essen (2), Emden (2), Bremen (2), Wilhelmshaven, Vegesack, and Duisberg in Germany. St. Etienne, near Marseilles, and sea mining in the Baltic Sea (2) and off the coast of Holland.

Pilot Officer McCarthy was the captain of a Lancaster bomber aircraft engaged on the 24th July 1942 in an operational flight over enemy territory. The aircraft failed to return to its base and all the crew including Pilot Officer McCarthy were classified as missing. Later information was received through the International Red Cross Committee from a German source that Pilot Officer McCarthy had lost his life, and in consequence he was reclassified to missing believed killed in action. In due course his death was officially presumed to have occurred on the 24th July 1942. Subsequently information was received through the International Red Cross Committee that Pilot Officer McCarthy was buried in the Principal Cemetery, Krefeld, Germany. After the cessation of hostilities the body of Pilot Officer McCarthy was re-interred in the Reichwald Forest British Military Cemetery.

4/2/3544 A.S.2.
404 hours as Pilot.

Mr. C.K. McCarthy (Brother), (right aligned)
67 Grange Road (right aligned)
Mt. Eden (right aligned)
AUCKLAND (right aligned & underlined)