Robert Henry Galipeau
Updated:
12 JAN 2012
Airman: a045010.htm Surname: Galipeau
Init: R H Rank: F/Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 999
P_link: p106.htm Plane: WEL R1588 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea
Crash_d: d140942 Buried_d: b201042 C_link: c045.htm At_Next: Kirkeby
Den 14. september 1942 må
WEL R1588 være styrtet i Nordsøen under et bombetogt til
Bremen, her.
Hele besætningen omkom. 4 flyvere fra WEL R1588 har ingen
kendt grav.
Den 16. oktober 1942 blev F/Sgt R. H. Galipeau fundet drevet ind nær Lakolk på
Rømø, omkring
her.
Han blev begravet på Kirkeby Kirkegård den 20. oktober 1942. (Kilder: FAF og
AOD)
Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) Robert Henry Galipeau, 22 år, canadisk
statsborger, var søn af
Joseph H. og Ella M. Galipeau, Coleraine, Minnesota, U.S.A.
(Kilde: CWGC)
Han var en af de mange Amerikanske flyvere, der var
gået ind i RCAF.
Se Americans In
The RCAF.
379 af dem
mistede livet - 8 af dem ses i www.airmen.dk
+ R.J. Dillon!
999 Squadron? RAF 22 OTU! (Operational
Training Unit - en enhed til operativ træning)
Denne Wellington
startede fra RAF
Stratford. 5 flyvere.
On 14 September 1942
WEL R1588 must have crashed into the North Sea on a
bombing raid on Bremen,
here. All
of the crew perished. From WEL R1588 4 airmen have no
known grave.
On 16 October 1942 F/Sgt R. H. Galipeau was found drifted ashore near Lakolk on
Rømø, about
here.
He was buried in Kirkeby Churchyard on 20 October 1942. (Sources: FAF and AOD)
Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) Robert Henry
Galipeau, 22, a citizen of Canada, was the son of
Joseph H. and Ella M. Galipeau, of Coleraine, Minnesota, U.S.A. (Source:
CWGC)
May he rest in peace / and let perpetual light
/ shine upon him. / Amen.
He was one of many American airmen who had joined the
RCAF.
See Americans In
The RCAF.
379 of them
lost their lives - 8 of them are seen on
www.airmen.dk + R.J. Dillon!
999 Squadron? RAF 22 OTU! (Operational Training Unit) This
Wellington took
off from RAF Stratford.
5 airmen.