George Frederick Gibson Photo: Knud Riis Updated: 15 OCT 2021
Airman: a011004.htm Surname: Gibson Init: G F Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 101
P_link: p371.htm Plane: LAN LM479 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Dejbjerg
Crash_d: d300844 Buried_d: b140944 C_link: c011.htm At_Next: Dejbjerg
”Natten til den 30. august 1944 overfløj næsten 600 britiske bombere
Danmark under bombetogter
til henholdsvis
Königsberg
(Kaliningrad) og
Stettin (Szczecin). Under
returflyvningen fra Stettin
blev Lancaster LM 479 skudt i brand af en tysk
natjager og nedstyrtede ved Dejbjerg (omkring
her).
Hele besætningen omkom." (FAF)
Meget mere om den helt
specielle begravelse på Dejbjerg Kirkegaard ved flyet
LAN LM479.
Se
folderen Flyvergraven på Dejbjerg
kirkegård fra Arne Mosgaard.
Se også Lancaster fotos.
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) George Frederick
Gibson, 36 år, var søn af George Frederick og Christine
Jane Gibson,
Hildersham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom; gift med Ann Gibson.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
8 flyvere.
”Nearly 600 British bombers flew over Denmark on the night before 30 August,
1944 on bombing
raids
to respectively Königsberg
(Kaliningrad) and Stettin
(Szczecin). During the return
flight
from
Stettin Lancaster LM 479 was hit and caught fire from a German night
fighter and crashed at
Dejbjerg
(about
here). All of the crew perished."
(FAF)
Much more about the very special funeral in Dejbjerg
Churchyard at the plane
LAN LM479.
See the folder Royal Air Force graves
Dejbjerg from
Arne Mosgaard.
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) George Frederick
Gibson, 36, was the son of George Frederick and
Christine Jane Gibson, of
Hildersham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, and the husband of Ann Gibson. (Source:
CWGC) In everloving memory of our dearest
son. Asleep, but not forgotten.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, P 1, P 39.
See
Operation 30 AUGUST 1944 - routes and losses.
Also
No. 101 Squadron
RAF - Wikipedia * 101
Squadron Association
RAF
Ludford Magna at
RAF-Lincolnshire-info and the modern
101
Squadron.
8 airmen