William Bagley Smaill Updated: 14 JAN 2022 Photo: Lars Wikander,28 AUG 2010 Airman: e222024.htm Surname: Smaill Init: W B Rank: F/Lt Service: RNZAF Sqdn: 007 P_link: p347.htm Plane: LAN PB180 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Baltic Sea Crash_d: d270844 Buried_d: e222m C_link: e222m.htm At_Next: Malmø, SWEDEN Den 27. august 1944 styrtede LAN PB180 i Østersøen eller den sydlige del af Øresund. Hele besætningen omkom. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:
"382 RAF bombefly bombede de centrale dele af
Kiel,
og 17 Lancasters gik tabt.
Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) William Bagley Smaill,
32 år, var søn af Charles Stewart Smaill
1 flyver fra
LAN PB180 er begravet i Lyderslev, 1 i Malmø, Sverige, 2
i Kiel, Tyskland og On 27 August 1944 LAN PB180 crashed in the Baltic Sea or the southern part of the Øresund. All of the crew perished. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes: "382 bombers from the RAF bombed the central
parts of Kiel
and 17 Lancasters were lost. PB180 was lost over the Baltic Sea.
On 15 September 1944 the body of F/Sgt (Flight Engineer) Albert Kenneth Wooliscroft
drifted ashore at Fællesskov Rev (about
here).
Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) William Bagley
Smaill, 32, was the son of Charles Stewart Smaill and of Margaret Smaill (née
Bagley), of Greenhithe, Auckland,
New Zealand. Awards: DFC, the
Distinguished Flying Cross. He is buried in
Malmø Eastern Municipal Cemetery in SWEDEN. (Source:
CWGC) See
Östra kyrkogård.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names 1 airman from
LAN PB180 is buried in Lyderslev, 1 in Malmø, Sweden, 2
in Kiel, Germany and 3 airmen have no known grave. |