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From The Memory Project:
"I saw him when he went... after he had done his first operations - they’d gone down on the target, there was anti-aircraft guns there apparently aplenty, and it was kind of a rough show. So we had lunch together and he was talking about how hot this anti-aircraft fire was - he went on a trip in the afternoon. That was two trips and he didn’t come back from the second one. "
From Silverhawkauthor, re: image of pilot
F/L Alexander Hunter of No 443 Squadron RCAF stands next to a Spitfire Mk Vb at RAF Westhampnett in April 1944, shortly before the unit received the Spitfire Mk IX and a move was made to RAF Holmesley South. The first sorties were as bomber escorts and until the invasion in June the squadron carried out deep penetration missions using 90gal drop tanks. Hunter was among a batch of pilots that had arrived in Liverpool in January 1944.
