Gerald Matsumoto

Flight Sergeant Geroda ("Gerald") Matsumoto was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1923, at Wandsworth, the son of Riyo and Dorothy Matsumoto (née Hudson), later of Harrogate, Yorkshire.
Matsumoto, an air bomber in 207 Squadron, died on 21 March 1945, when his Avro Lancaster (serial PA196) was lost while engaged in an operation to bomb a synthetic-oil plant at Bohlen, Germany.Storr, Alan (2006), RAAF Personnel Serving on Attachment in Royal Air Force Squadrons and Support Units in World War 2 and Missing with No Known Grave, p. 271, awm.gov.au. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
The seven crew have no known grave and are commemorated by the Runnymede Memorial.
==Notes==
==References==
*Matsumoto, Gerald, cwgc.org. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
==External links==
*The Lewis crew, lost on Bohlen 20/21 March 1945 Lancaster I PA196 EM-D (additional information and photograph), 207squadron.rafinfo.org.uk. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
Category:1923 births
Category:1945 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:British people of Japanese descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Runnymede Memorial
Category:Flight Sergeants