Pilot Officer WILLIAM MEAD LINDSLEY FISKE
Service Number: 78092
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
601 Sqdn.
Date of Death
Died 17 August 1940
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Mentioned in Despatches
- Additional Info Born in the U.S.A. One of only two Americans who died in the Battle of Britain. On 4th July, 1941 the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, unveiled a Memorial Plaque to Fiske, in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral. .
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