Personnel Index - Detail
Name
LETFORD
First Names
Kenneth Harold Francis
Rank
Squadron Leader
Service
RAF
Service Number
745585
Crew Position
Pilot
Posting In
Posted in 1/41 and out 9/41
Flew 17 Hampden operations as Second Pilot and 13 operations as Pilot with 49Sqn.
He went on to complete an amazing four tours of operations.
Awarded the DSO and DFC with 49Sqn and DSO,DFC and Bar with 207Sqn, MID.
At a 207Sqn reunion in 1983.
Click to hear Ken Letford on a raid to Berlin with Wynford Vaughan Thomas.
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In 1948, as pilot of a Sunderland flyingboat, Ken Letford was involved in "The Yangtze Incident" (opens in a new window).