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John Hopgood was born on 29 August 1921 in Hurst, Berkshire, to solicitor Harold Hopgood and his second wife Grace. Harold's first wife Beatrice had died in 1918. John was the middle of three children from this second marriage (in addition to a half brother and sister from the first) and was educated at Marlborough College.
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Apr 28, 2015 · Flight Lieutenant John Hopgood was just 21 as he began his attack on the Mohner Dam, despite his Lancaster bomber losing one engine to flack some 20 minutes earlier.
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Apr 28, 2015 · John Hopgood was one of the leading pilots in the Dambusters raid of 1943. THE teenager couldn't contain his awe as he described the aerobatics on the school field trip. The plane had dived to ...
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Jan 27, 2024 · John Vere Hopgood was born to Harold and Grace on 29th August 1921 in Hurst, Berkshire on 29th August 1921 and was educated at Marlborough College. He would have gone on to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, but the war intervened and he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1940 and qualified as a pilot in February 1941, earning his ...
John Vere Hopgood joined the RAF in August 1940 when he was 18. He qualified as a pilot in February 1941 and was then commissioned. After completing further training, and still only 19 years old, he joined 50 Squadron, flying Handley Page Hampdens on his first tour of operations as a bomber pilot.
Sep 4, 2019 · John Hopgood, the 21-year-old whom Gibson rated best pilot in the squadron, wrote after a village church service a few years earlier, in praise of the sermon: ‘the theme was that the greatest gift of God to mankind was the inability to see the future, and that to face the future we need God’.
May 16, 2013 · Crash AJ-M for Mother Piloted by John Hopgood was shot down while attacking the Mohne dam; The mission. Seventy years ago, a daring World War II raid immortalised the RAF's 617 Squadron as the ...
