Alfred W. J. Drennan
Updated:
09 MAR 2021
Airman: e777055.htm
Surname: Drennan Init: AWJ Rank: Sgt Service: RCAF
Sqdn: 433
P_link: p340.htm Plane: HAL MZ899 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: SW of Langeland
Crash_d: d170844 Buried_d: e777
C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
I forbindelse med en
mineudlægningsoperation ved Kiel styrtede HAL MZ899 i
Østersøen sydvest for Langeland den 17. august 1944,
måske her.
Hele besætningen omkom. 2 er begravet i Magleby på Langeland, 1 på Bogø, 1 i Aabenraa, 1 i Tyskland og 2 har ingen kendt grav. (Kilde: FAF)
Pilot Officer Alfred Wallace Jack Drennan,
23 år, canadier, var søn af Alfred og Edith Drennan.
Hans navn er på Panel 250 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne
på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde:
CWGC)
Denne
Halifax forlod RAF Skipton On
Swale kl. 2134 den 16 AUG 1944 for at lægge miner i Forget-Me-Not,
Kiel
Harbour. (Kilde: MACR) Se Minelægningsområder.
Se
Print af en Halifax *
Maleri af Halifax III MZ924 KN-D.
7 flyvere.
In connection with a minelaying operation
at Kiel
HAL MZ899 crashed into the Baltic Sea south west of
Langeland on 17 August, 1944,
maybe here.
This
Halifax took off on 16 AUG 1944 to lay mines in Forget-Me-Not,
Kiel
Harbour. (Source:
p340MACR) See Minelaying areas.
All of the crew perished. 2 airmen are buried in Magleby on Langeland, 1 on Bogø, 1 in Aabenraa, 1 in Germany and 2 have no known graves. (Source: FAF)
Pilot Officer Alfred Wallace Jack Drennan,
23, Canadian, was the son of Alfred and Edith Drennan.
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the
BC Museum of Canada.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has
this.
He is commemorated on the
Runnymede Memorial, Panel 250, among more than 20,000
airmen who have no known grave. (Source:
CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 157.
No. 433
(Porcupine) Squadron was formed within No. 6 Group, see
No. 6 Group and
the Canadian Squadrons
Halifax
*
Halifax-BC
Museum.Canada
*
Halifax-RAF
Museum
*
Halifax-The
Yorkshire Air Museum *
Halifax Print
and
Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
Halifax III MZ899 BM-D
took off from RAF
Skipton-on-Swale at 21.34 hrs on 16 AUG 1944. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this.)
p340MACR
See
Painting
of Halifax III MZ924 KN-D 7 airmen.