James Bell Dickson was killed in action April 8, 1944, flying his Mustang fighter-plane P-51B, tail number 43-7147, YF-X.

On April 8, 1944, above and around Haulerwijk (the Netherlands) a heavy air battle arose between a number of German and American fighter planes.

Lt. Dickson's squadron was returning from an escort flight over Germany but got engaged in combat in the skies over occupied Holland with German fighter planes from (probably) station Leeuwarden.

After the war, he was reburied at the request of the family in the United States (Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aberdeen, Mississippi, USA).

[3] James Bell Dickson is also mentioned on the Roll of Honour of the 355th War Memorial in Steeple Morden (UK).