Photo: B. Chandler
O.C. Sweetman D.F.M.
Navigator
Royal Air Force
9th October 1944
God’s greatest gift
Remembrance
F/O Sweetman was serving with 608 Squadron. He was a crew member of Mosquito XX KB261 GT-D which took off from Downham Market on a mission to Wilhelmshaven. On the return the aircraft dived into the ground killing both crew members.
His D.F.M. had been gazetted on 5th February 1943.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1
He is remembered in Jesmond on J1.38
