Service Number: R/77427
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 431 Sqdn.
Warrant Officer Class 2 / Wireless Operator - Air Gunner.
Enlisting in the air force in 1940, Philip trained at Calgary, Yorkton and Brandon and received his wings as a wireless air gunner at Macdonald, Manitoba, in Aug 1941. He went overseas soon after. His commanding officer wrote after he was reported missing: "He was a first-rate wireless operator-air gunner."
Son of Isaac Yellin and Freda (nee Gladstone) Yellin, of Montreal, Quebec.
Service Number: R/77427
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 431 Sqdn.
Warrant Officer Class 2 / Wireless Operator - Air Gunner.
Enlisting in the air force in 1940, Philip trained at Calgary, Yorkton and Brandon and received his wings as a wireless air gunner at Macdonald, Manitoba, in Aug 1941. He went overseas soon after. His commanding officer wrote after he was reported missing: "He was a first-rate wireless operator-air gunner."
Son of Isaac Yellin and Freda (nee Gladstone) Yellin, of Montreal, Quebec.
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