British historians expressed outrage at modifications carried out on a British warplane that fell in the Western Desert during the World War II, and was discovered in 2012, nearly 70 years after its disappearance. Copping was one of the 260-member British Air Force squadron during the North Africa campaign in World War II in 1942. Amid criticism of the plane’s new, critics and Copping family urged the Egyptian authorities to honor Dennis’s courage at least. Retired Flight Lieutenant Adrian John Nichol who took part in the first Gulf War urged recognizing Dennis’s sacrifices at Alamein Military Museum. “We can’t let Dennis Copping become a forgotten man,” the Sun quoted Dennis’s nephew and next of kin, John Pryor-Bennett as saying.

Source: Egypt Independent January 04, 2018 14:26 UTC