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WW2 Australian medals to Ft/Lt Magee who flew 31 ops with 100 & 625 Sqn wounded.

1939 – 45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, Defence and War Medals, Australian Service Medals 1939 – 45 all named 415342 Magee T.K. mounted on a display board. They come with 3 pictures, extracts from Pilots log and copies of service records.

Flight Lieutenant Thomas Keith Magee was born on 9/4/1920 in Northampton, Western Australia. A clerk by trade he enlisted into the Royal Australian Air Force on 14/9/1941 as Air Crew. After initial Pilot training he departed Australia in August 1942 bound for England landing on 18/11/1942.

After further conversion training, he marched into 100 Squadron RAF on 30/8/1943 and flew with them until 13/10/1943 when transferred to 625 Squadron.

He flew some 31 Ops in Lancasters bombing Nuremberg, Gladbach, Berlin (12), Mannheim, Hanover (4), Munich, Kassal, Stuttgart (2), Dusseldorf, Modane, Brunswick, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Schweinfurt, Augsburg.

He was wounded receiving lacerations to his buttock from flack whilst bombing Berlin.

He was lucky to survive his first mission attacking Nuremberg on 27/8/1943 when they were hit on the starboard wing by 3 incendiaries dropped by an American Flying Fortress, lucky for the crew they did not ignite and were still lodged in the wing on landing.

On completion of his operation tour on 10/3/1944, he was assigned for a rest in various nonoperation postings until returning to Australia departing in October 1944 landing in December 1944.

He attended further nonoperational postings within Australia until discharging on 13/10/1945. He died in Perth in May 1999.