James Leo Donald                               Updated:  19 JAN 2012

Airman: a055004.htm Surname: Donald Init: J L Rank: P/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 419

P_link: p259.htm Plane: HAL JD456 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sea S of Langeland.

Crash_d: d150244 Buried_d: b200244 C_link: c055.htm At_Next: Magleby - L

Den 15. februar 1944 styrtede HAL JD456 i Østersøen syd for Langeland (måske omkring her)
i forbindelse med et bombetogt til Berlin.
Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: MACR)

"Liget af J. L. Donald blev indbjerget fra Østersøen den 17. februar 1944 og begravet 3 dage senere."(FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Bomber) James Leo Donald, 25 år, var søn af Leo og Mary Matilda Donald, Grandview, Manitoba, Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra HAL JD456 blev begravet i Magleby på Langeland og 1 i Aabenraa.
4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.

On 15 February 1944 HAL JD456 crashed into the Baltic Sea south of Langeland (maybe about here)
in connection with a bombing raid on Berlin.
No survivors. (Source: MACR)

"The body of J. L. Donald was retrieved from the Baltic Sea on 17 February 1944 and buried 3 days later." (FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Bomber) James Leo Donald, 25, was the son of Leo and Mary Matilda Donald,
of Grandview, Manitoba, Canada. (Source: CWGC)
Safe in the arms of Jesus, safe on his gentle breast, my soul shall rest

2 airmen from HAL JD456 were buried in Magleby, Langeland and 1 in Aabenraa.
4 airmen have no known grave.

See Bomber Command No. 419 Squadron RCAF * 419 Squadron of Royal Canadian Air Force
No. 419 Squadron of Canadian Wings. The Wartime Memories Project - 419 Squadron
RAF - Handley Page Halifax. This Halifax took off from RAF Middleton St. George. 7 airmen.