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- D2Two or more independent public sources corroborate the same facts.
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On the seafront at Lee-on-Solent — once HMS Daedalus, the home shore station of the Fleet Air Arm — stands the Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial to more than 1,900 men of the Fleet Air Arm who died in the Second World War and have no known grave. They were lost in every theatre, flying fighters, torpedo bombers and reconnaissance aircraft from ships and shore.
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What this page does not claim
- This commemorates the Fleet Air Arm's missing (Royal Navy aviation, all theatres), not Soviet forces or the Arctic convoys specifically.
- Names of individuals are inscribed on the memorial; this discovery record does not reproduce them.
- Endorsement by any named institution; the source is cited for documentary research only.
Sources
- ACommonwealth War Graves Commission — CWGC record for the Lee-on-Solent (Fleet Air Arm) Memorial (1,900+ Fleet Air Arm missing of the Second World War).
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