Claude Frederick Bish                                                                           Updated:   01 APR 2009

Airman: e777057.htm Surname: Bish Init: C F Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 103

P_link: p313.htm Plane: LAN LL963 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Off Avernakø

Crash_d: d160544 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

 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.

LAN LL963 styrtede ned her. C.F. Bish blev aldrig fundet.

Flight Sergeant Claude Frederick Bish, 21 år, var søn af Charles Frederick og Florence Eva Bish, Horsted Keynes, Sussex, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 215 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver begravet på Avernakø, 1 på Drejø, 1 i Faaborg, 1 i Aastrup og 3 har ingen kendt grav.
Airwar over Denmark har mere om dette fly og dets besætning. 7 flyvere. Flere links i engelsk version.

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.

LAN LL963 crashed here. C.F. Bish was never found.

Flight Sergeant Claude Frederick Bish, 21, was the son of Charles Frederick and Florence Eva Bish, of Horsted Keynes, Sussex, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 215, among more than 20,000 airmen, who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)

1 airman buried on Avernakø, 1 on Drejø, 1 in Faaborg, 1 in Aastrup and 3 have no known grave.
See No. 103 Squadron at Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary. Also 103 and 576 Squadron Website and RAF Elsam Wolds Association
Airwar over Denmark has more about this plane and its crew. 7 airmen.