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On the night of 10 August, when taking off to attack a force of incoming bombers both his engines failed. He and Bing were forced to bail out over the sea, spending several hours in their dinghies before being rescued next morning by an air-sea rescue launch.
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a year later and became an estate agent. He died on 10 July 2006 at an aged care facility in
Huntsville, Ontario. He was survived by five children; his wife, who he had married in 1946, had predeceased him by two years.
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His first success over Malta came on the night of 24 June, an
Italian bomber, before returning to refuel and rearm. Just before dawn he destroyed another bomber. Four nights later he accounted for two
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in June 1942. With his observer Sgt. Pat Bing, Fumerton became the island's top-scoring night fighter pilot, claiming nine victories by the end of August 1941.
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59:Fort-Coulonge, Quebec
302:No. 406 Squadron RAF
20:Robert Carl Fumerton
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357:References
278:and later
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210:diphtheria
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375:The Times
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192:Biography
405:16 March
216:and the
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