Philip Hartstein

Pilot Officer Philip Hartstein was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
he was born in 1921, in Hackney, the son of Russian-born Abraham, a printer and bag maker in 1911, and Anna (Hannah) Hartstein (née Herman), of Whitechapel.
Hartstein, serving as a pilot in 7 Squadron, died on 9 October 1943, when his Avro Lancaster (JA706) crashed at Wormstal Bauernhof, Altenhagen, while engaged on an operation against Hanover.Chorley, W.R. (1992), Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: Aircraft and crew losses: 1943, p. 352. Three of the seven-man crew survived and were taken prisoner. A brother, Emmanuel, died in 1944 while also a pilot officer.
He is buried in Hanover War Cemetery
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==References==
*Hartstein, Philip, cwgc.org. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
Category:1911 births
Category:1943 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:Buried in Germany
Category:Pilot Officers