Ronald Walter Long        Photo: Knud Riis   Updated: 10 MAR 2021
                                                                         
Airman:
 a014246.htm Surname: Long Init: R W Rank: F/Lt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 405

P_link: p375.htm Plane: LAN PB527 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d160944 Buried_d: b111111 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg,  A. 13. 21

"Under en mission til Kiel den 16. september 1944 nedstyrtede et "Lancaster" fly i Nordsøen.
Hele besætningen omkom." (FAF)  Se p375MACR.


Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Ronald Walter Long, 24 år, var søn af Mr. J.W. Long,  Windsor, Ontario,
Canada. Hæderstegn: DFC, Distinguished Flying Cross.
(Kilde: CWGC)

R.W. Long synes at være inddrevet ved Vejers Strand. Usikker begravelsesdato. (Kilde: FAF)
1 mand er begravet i Sønderho, 1 i Esbjerg og 5 har ikke nogen kendt grav.

Se Lancaster fotos og Archive Report med detaljer og fotos. 7 flyvere.

This Lancaster crashed in the North Sea on 16 September, 1944 during a bombing raid on Kiel.
All of the crew perished. (Source: FAF) See p375MACR.

Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Ronald Walter Long, 24, was the son of Mr. J.W. Long, of Windsor, Ontario,
Canada. Awards: DFC, the Distinguished Flying Cross. (Source: CWGC)
R.W. Long seems to have drifted in on the beach at Vejers. Uncertain date of burial. (Source: FAF)

His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this. He is remembered on The Walls of Names at
the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 200.

1 airman is buried in Sønderho, 1 in Esbjerg and 5 have no known grave.
 
See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Squadron RCAF
405 Squadron Association * No. 405 Squadron RAF Pathfinders * Lancaster Photos
Lancaster - Bomber Command Museum of Canada * Avro 683 Lancaster Mk X - IWM Duxford
Lancaster-WikipediaLAN-HALLancaster photos
Lancaster III PB527 LQ-K took off from RAF Gransden Lodge at 22.35 hrs on 15 SEP 1944.
(Source:
Aircrew Remembered has this and Archive Report.) 7 airmen.