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Burke, D., Ft.Sgt., 1943
In Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of 632396 Flight Sergeant Dennis Burke, serving with the Royal Air Force who died 24/08/1943.

Simon Glancey has submitted the following:

Fl. Sgt. Burke was killed when Handley Page Halifax II HR928 TL-R of 35 Squadron was lost on a mission to Berlin. The Halifax was shot down by a Luftwaffe night fighter, and crashed at Wensickendorf, some 20 miles NNW of Berlin. G/c Robinson was an experienced bomber pilot, and had recently been made Station Commander at R.A.F. Graveley.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3, page 280

Also killed in the same incident were Gp.Capt. Robinson and Ft.Lt. Webster

Dennis Burke is remembered in Ushaw Moor on U8.02


The CWGC entry for Flight Sergeant Burke

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