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Old 14th Aug 2020, 13:25
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Sub-Lieutenant Frederick (Fred) Hockley RNVR (born 1923) was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot who was shot down over Japan while taking part in the last combat mission flown by British aircraft in the Second World War.Nine hours after Emperor Hirohito announced the unconditional surrender of Japan, on 15 August 1945, Hockley was secretly executed by soldiers from the Imperial Japanese Army. The two officers who instigated the killing were convicted of war crimes and hanged in Hong Kong in 1947.

He was a Seafire pilot of 894 NAS on board HMS Indefatigable.
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