|
Home
Allied:
1939-1940 Updated
13/1-08
1941 Updated
18/12-07
1942 Updated 29/3-08
1943 Updated 5/5-08
1944 Updated 5/5-08
1945 Updated 29/3-08
German:
1939 Updated
3/8-05
1940 Updated 16/3-08
1941 Updated
18/12-07
1942 Updated 10/3-07
1943 Updated
20/5-06
1944 Updated
28/4-08
1945 March New
Sources
Contact
Links
Search this
site by entering search words:
|
Halifax II W1016 crashed in the North Sea on 10/8-1942.
The aircraft belonged to RAF 76 Sqn. Bomber Command and was coded MP-B.
T/O 00:07 Middleton St.George. OP: Osnabrück.
W1016 was on loan to 78 Sqn to take part in the attack on Osnabrück. It crashed
in the North Sea and the seven man crew from 78 Sqn died.
On 10/9 Flt.Engr. Sgt
Cyril M. Howard was found drifted ashore in beach area 15 near Søgård by
Receiver of Wrecks Chr. Refgård and laid to rest in Fovrfelt cemetery, Esbjerg
on 15/9-1942.
Air Gnr. F/S Aulden C. Porter RCAF today rests in Kiel War cemetery, Germany,
while W/Op-Air Gnr. F/S Ernest J. Ironmonger rests in Bergen-Op-Zoom cemetery in
Holland.
Pilot Sgt William A. Wilson, Navigator Sgt George A. Palmer, W/op-Air Gnr. F/S
Donald J. Navin RCAF and Air Gnr. Sgt George D. L. Humphreys have no known
graves and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Sources: BCL, CWGC, BE, UA, Police report
Back to 1942
Top of page
|
