Kenneth Walter Mitchell Updated: 09 JAN 2022
Airman: a119001.htm Surname: Mitchell Init: K W Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 103
P_link: p313.htm Plane: LAN LL963 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Off Avernakø
Crash_d: d160544 Buried_d: b080944 C_link: c119.htm At_Next: Aastrup
Under
en mineudlægningsoperation til Kiel Bugt natten til den 16. maj 1944 blev
LAN LL963 ramt af flak og styrtede i havet ved Avernakø. Hele besætningen omkom. Se
om styrtet.
Se
propel som monument og tak til
flyverne. Se
meget mere ved flyverne begravet på Avernakø
og
Drejø.
Besøg 2016.
p313MACR
Pilot Officer (Pilot) Kenneth Walter Mitchell
var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
LAN LL963 styrtede ned
her. K.W. Mitchell blev fundet inddrevet ved Nab, Aastrup sogn
(omkring
her) den 5. september 1944. Han blev begravet af sognepræst H.C. Andersen
den 8. september. (Kilde: FAF)
1 flyver begravet på Avernakø, 1 på Drejø, 1 i
Faaborg, 1 i Aastrup og 3 har ingen kendt grav.
Se
Google Map p313 Lancaster LL963 *
Minelægningsområder *
Lancaster fotos. 7 flyvere.
Fight for that you hold dear / die if
so you must
Grateful residents of Aastrup erected this memorial
On its way to a mine laying operation in Kiel Bay on the
night before 16 May, 1944, LAN LL963 was hit by flak and crashed into the sea
at Avernakø. All of
the crew perished. See about the crash.
See propeller as monument and
thanks to the airmen. See much more at the airmen
buried on
Avernakø and Drejø.
Pilot Officer (Pilot) Kenneth Walter Mitchell
was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, P1,P75.
LAN LL963 crashed
here. The body of K.W. Mitchell drifted in at Nab, the parish of Aastrup
(about
here) on 5 September, 1944. He was buried by vicar H.C. Andersen on 8
September. (Source: FAF)
See
Google Map p313 Lancaster LL963 and
Memorial Sail with MHV
817 - 13 MAY 2017.
MHV 817 Partisan.
Visit 2016
* Monument 2021.
See
No. 103 Squadron
RAF-Wikipedia*103 Squadron Group
Photo* RAF Elsham
Wolds Association*Minelaying areas*Lancaster Photos*103
Squadron RAF History.
Lancaster I LL963 PM-D took off from
RAF Elsham Wolds at
22:13 hrs on 15 MAY 1944. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this.) p313MACR
See photos from Elsham Wolds August 2018 by
Elisabeth Olsen. 7 airmen.