Michael James Carr Harwood                 Updated:  21 SEP 2011

Airman: a019007.htm Surname: Harwood Init: MJC Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 106

P_link: p045.htm Plane: HAM AE301 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Limfjorden near Hals

Crash_d: d270841 Buried_d: b300841 C_link: c019.htm At_Next: Frederikshavn

HAM AE301 på en mineudlægningsopgave blev 03:30 den 27 august 1941 ramt af flak og styrtede
ned her på ca. 2,5 m vanddybde sydvest for batteriet "Flakzug Hals" i den lille skov på Nordmannshage. Næsepartiet var totalt knust, men det lykkedes tyskerne at bjærge F/Sgt N.T. Powell med svære kvæstelser. Han kom på feltlazarettet i Aalborg, og senere blev han overført til Tyske krigsfangelejre.

I de næste dage bjærgede tyskerne ligene af F/O M.J.C. Harwood og F/Sgt W.A. Oastler, der blev
begravet i Frederikshavn den 30. august, mens F/Sgt N. Lusher blev begravet samme sted den 8.
september efter at være fundet ved Hals Barre, omkring her. (Kilde: FT 89-69-19 og Kenneth Kristensen, Bangsbo Museum) Se mere ved HAM AE301.

Flying Officer (Pilot) Michael James Carr Harwood, 21 år, var søn af Wilfred James Harwood og
Maud Harwood; gift med Joan Armstrong Harwood, Chiswick, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
Hæderstegn: Distinguished Flying Cross. (Kilde: CWGC) 4 flyvere. 

During a minelaying operation HAM AE301 was hit by flak at 03:30 on 27 August 1941 and crashed
here into the Limfjorden at a depth of about 2.5 m southwest of the battery "Flakzug Hals" in the little
wood at Nordmannshage. The nose of the plane was totally crushed, but the Germans managed to
rescue F/Sgt N.T. Powell, who was badly injured. He was taken to the German field hospital in Aalborg. Later he was taken to German POW-Camps.

In the following days the Germans rescued the bodies of F/O M.J.C. Harwood and F/Sgt W.A. Oastler,
who were buried in Frederikshavn on 30 August, while F/Sgt N. Lusher was buried in the same place on 8 September after he was found at Hals Barre, about here. (Source: FT-89-69-19 and Kenneth Kristensen, Bangsbo Museum) See more at HAM AE301.

Flying Officer (Pilot) Michael James Carr Harwood, 21, was the son of Wilfred James Harwood and
Maud Harwood, and the husband of Joan Armstrong Harwood, of Chiswick, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
Awards: DFC, the Distinguished Flying Cross. (Source: CWGC) More in Norman Powell´s account.
See Bomber Command No. 106 Squadron. This Hampden took off from RAF Coningsby. 4 airmen.