Warrant Officer Class I WILLIAM CHARLES POWERS was pilot of Spitfire IX MK881, on an armed reconnaissance mission.¹ He was shot down near Rennes on 14th July 1944.²

An alternative source confirms he was shot down on the 14th July 1944 while on an armed reconnaissance mission, and add that it was in the evening and encountered flak over Flers.³

He was taken to a German hospital in Rennes on 18th July with gunshot wounds to his left eye and both arms. He died in hospital on 20th July 1944.

Initially buried in a civilian cemetery in Rennes, later his body was exhumed on 20th July 1965 and reinterred at SAINT CHARLES-DE-PERCY.⁴

An alternative source claims he was shot in a prisoner-of-war camp after he was shot down.⁵

Presently, no primary sources have been located to verify either account.

The widow of Warrant Officer Class I WILLIAM CHARLES POWERS, Joan Molly Powers, passed away in 2014 aged 91.