Portrait of 419328 Flying Officer (FO) Patrick Leo McCartin, RAAF, 75 Squadron RAF, of Geelong, ...

Portrait of 419328 Flying Officer (FO) Patrick Leo McCartin, RAAF, 75 Squadron RAF, of Geelong, Vic, with another crew member in the cockpit of a Lancaster bomber which has completed 70 operations. FO McCartin enlisted on July 1942 and after graduating from advanced flying school in Canada, he was promoted to Flying Officer and flew on numerous operations over occupied Europe. He was listed as missing, later confirmed killed, on an operation over Homberg on 20 November 1944. He is buried at Reichswald Forest war cemetery at Kleve, Germany. He was named after his Uncle, Lieutenant Leo Aloysuis McCartin, MC, who served in the First World War and was killed in action in 1918. (see P04003.002). The aircraft also has the ribbon of a Distinguished Flying Cross painted on it, either awarded to a crew member or unofficially to the aircraft itself by the ground maintenance crew.

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