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Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Francois Rolland Pilon
Image gallery
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François Rolland Pilon. Photo published in the yearbook of Course 39, No. 4 Air Observer School, Crumlin, Ontario, 1942.
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Crew of EQ-X (408 Sqn): (L to R): Lloyd Haines, Tony Gielty, François Rolland Pilon, Ronnie Winter, Jacques Guay (kneeling)
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Last page of François Rolland Pilon's journal showing his three operational flights, prior to the ill-fated Pilsen raid of April 16/17, 1943 from which his bomber failed to return.
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The grave marker of François Rolland Pilon. Photo taken by Jan Pilon of the Netherlands.
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Francois Rolland Pilon is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Francois Rolland Pilon is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 203 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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LIESSE COMMUNAL CEMETERY Aisne, France
Liesse is a large village 15 kilometres north-east of Laon, on the Laon-Montcornet road. The LIESSE COMMUNAL CEMETERY is on the sourthern side of Liesse on the road to Marchais and St.Erme.
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