James Lennox Brooks  Photo: Knud Riis  Updated: 07 JAN 2022
                                                                              
Airman:
 a014207.htm Surname: Brooks Init: J L Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAAF Sqdn: 460

P_link: p286.htm Plane: LAN JB600 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Near Torrild

Crash_d: d100444 Buried_d: b150444 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 7. 6

Han og 5 andre flyvere blev dræbt, da LAN JB600 styrtede ned nær Torrild, her. Se p286MACR.
En mand overlevede. De og 29 andre flyvere fra samme operation blev begravet i Esbjerg.

De 6 flyvere mindes på en mindetavle fra 1945 i Torrild Kirke.

Flight Sergeant James Lennox Brooks, 20 år, var søn af Edgar Percival Brooks og Sophia Brooks, Mackay, Queensland, Australien. (Kilde:CWGC)

Se hans navn blandt 47 navne i London og Horsens. Se også Google Map HorsensEH47 og
Google Map 460 Squadron RAAF-DK. Minelægningsområder og Lancaster fotos. 7 flyvere.


He and 5 other airmen were killed, when LAN JB600 crashed near Torrild, here.
One man survived. They and 29 airmen from the same operation were buried in Esbjerg.

The 6 airmen are commemorated on a memorial tablet from 1945 in Torrild Church.

Flight Sergeant James Lennox Brooks, 20, was the son of Edgar Percival Brooks and Sophia Brooks, of Mackay, Queensland, Australia. (Source: CWGC) Virtual War Memorial Australia has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 1, P 13. 
See his name among 47 names in London and Horsens. See also Google Map HorsensEH47.

See
Google Map 460 Squadron RAAF-DK * See  Lancaster * Lancaster photos * p286MACR.
No. 460 Squadron RAAF - Wikipedia *
460 Squadron - Bomber Command WW2 * Minelaying areas.

Lancaster III JB600 AR-O took off from RAF Binbrook at 21.26 hrs on 09 APR 1944.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this+Archive_Report
7 airmen.