Sgt./Air Gunner Dixon was serving with 626 Squadron and was a member of the crew of a Lancaster III bomber JB599 UM Q2 which left Wickenby on a sortie to Frankfurt. It was shot down by a night fighter near Lübbecke.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Vol. 5: 1994 W.R. Chorley Midland Counties Publications ISBN 0 904597 91 1.
Aged 18, he was reputed to be the youngest person to be killed on RAF operations.
Tony Hibberd has added the following:
Lancaster JB599 UM-Q2 had departed Wickenby at 1859 for Ops Frankfurt
It was intercepted at 5900M in the Osnabruck area by a Night-Fighter captained by Oblt Arnold Brinkmann (Stab I/NJG3) and shot down at 2130. William Beattie Dixonis remembered in Cambois on C6.03
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 2
Dr Theo Boiten
