Personnel Index - Detail
Name
DELATORRE
First Names
Melville George
Rank
Sgt
Service
RAAF
Service Number
A402590
Crew Position
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Posting Out
Posted 8/42 to 207Sqn
Cemetery
Flew three Manchester operations as a mid-upper gunner with 49Sqn.
Sgt Delatorre was killed on 4th March 1943 whilst serving with 207Sqn and is buried in Hamburg.
Photographed by Geoff Swallow.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses
Sgt Evison, WO2 Wallace, F/Sgt Delatorre and WO2 Cain had all been posted to 49Sqn.