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George Albert Letts
Updated:
12 JAN 2012
Airman: a100004.htm Surname: Letts Init: G
A Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 138
P_link: p397r.htm
Plane: STI LK149 Operation: Drop in DK Crash_site: The
North Sea
Crash_d: d230245 Buried_d: b250245
C_link: c100.htm At_Next: Søndre Nissum
Natten til den 24. februar 1945 styrtede
STI LK149 i Nordsøen. Det var på vej med
våbenforsyninger til
en modtageplads ved Hobro (her).
Alle 7 flyvere omkom. (Kilde: FAF) 4 flyvere fra
STI LK149 har ingen kendt grav. 2 er begravet i Sdr.
Nissum og 1 i Nr. Haurvig. Mere ved hver enkelt flyver.
Se
Google Map Rebild.
Sgt Letts blev fundet ilanddrevet på stranden ved Thorsminde (omkring
her).
Han blev begravet i Sdr. Nissum den 25. februar 1945 af den tyske værnemagt.
(Kilde: FAF)
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) George Albert Letts,
25 år, var søn af Mr. og Mrs. Albert Edward Letts,
gift med Jean Lucy Letts,
Anerley, Kent, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
69 omkomne flyvere mindes på
Mindetavlen i Rebild og i London, se
69 flyvere - St. Clement Danes.
7 flyvere.
STI LK149 crashed in the North Sea on the night before
24 February 1945. It was on its way with
supplies of weapons to a drop zone at
Hobro (here).
All 7 airmen perished. (Source: FAF) 4 airmen from
STI LK149
have no known grave. 2 are buried in Sdr. Nissum and 1 in Nr. Haurvig. More at
each airman.
Sgt Letts was found drifted ashore at Thorsminde (about
here).
He was buried in Søndre Nissum on 25 February 1945 by the German Wehrmacht. (Source:
FAF)
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) George Albert Letts,
25, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Edward Letts,
and the husband of Jean
Lucy Letts, of Anerley, Kent, United Kingdom. (Source:
CWGC)
See 69 perished airmen on the
Memorial Tablet in Rebild
and in London, 69 airmen - St. Clement Danes.
See
Bomber
Command No. 138 (Special) Squadron *
No. 138 Squadron
*
Roll of Honour, Tempsford * This
Stirling took off from
RAF Tempsford
See also Tempsford Special
Duties Squadrons *
A History of RAF
Tempsford * The Tempsford Airfield
Pages. Google Map Rebild with 15 + 3 planes.
7 airmen. Lost Bombers has
this.
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