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Cooke, Desmond

Date of birth:
June 28th, 1907 (Penang, Straits Settlement)
Date of death:
July 8th, 1940 (near Dover, Great Britain)
Mentioned on:
Air Forces Memorial Runnymede
Plot: 3. 
Nationality:
British (1801-present, Kingdom)

Biography

Promotions:
April 1st, 1938: Squadron Leader.

Career:
October 1937: Squadron Leader, No. 65 Squadron.

Desmond Cooke was shot down on July 8th, 1940 near Dover with his Supermarine Spitfire K9907, by Josef Fözö, Staffelkapitän, 4./Jagdgeschwader 51

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