HAL JP336
var nødt til at nødlande på havet (måske omkring
her
nordøst for Gjerrild på Djursland) den 24. april 1945.
"Den 23. april 1945 kl. 20.15 lettede F/O
Lawrence Barclay Davey fra Stornoway i HAL JP336. Ved
midnat opdagede flyet en tysk konvoj fra Norge, og under det første angreb blev
flyet svært beskadiget af flak. Davey forsøgte at nå land, men ca. 1 sømil
(måske omkring
her)
nordøst for Gjerrild på Djursland (Gjerrild Fyr
her) måtte flyet lande på vandet, hvor det holdt sig
flydende i brændende tilstand i en halv time. Fra land blev branden observeret,
men ingen sejlede til undsætning. Da F/O Davey
kom
fri af flyet, kunne han høre anden-piloten F/Sgt Thomas Ernest Parker Rosenthal råbe om hjælp inde i den
brændende maskine. Davey krøb ind i vraget og fik
hjulpet Rosenthal ud.
Telegrafisterne F/O John Vilhjalmur Johnson og Sgt
Gerard Anthony Guinane var
også kommet fri af flyet, og i fællesskab fik de pustet deres gummibåd
op og
roede rundt for at finde de 5 øvrige besætningsmedlemmer, men forgæves." (FT 91-10-54)
Nedstyrtningsstedet
her 1 sømil nordøst for Gjerrild angives anderledes i 2 andre kilder. FAF:
15 miles nordvest for Anholt. AOD: 10-15 km øst for Grenå.
På oversigtskortet
her ses øen Anholt og Varberg i Sverige, hvortil der er færge fra Grenå.
3 drev ind øst for Odder og
2 ukendte drev ind nordøst for Ebeltoft.
Sergeant George Geoffrey Cockroft fra
United Kingdom var søn af Sam og Elsie Cockroft, Halifax.
Hans navn er på Panel 274 på the
Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne
på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde:
CWGC)
P/O Robert L. McKinney og Sgt
George G. Cockroft har ingen kendt grav og mindes
på Runnymede Memorial. (Kilde: AOD)
Se Unknown British Airman i Dråby
og Unknown British Airman i
Hyllested. De kunne være McKinney og Cockroft ud fra datoer og findesteder.
Hvis det er rigtigt, er det dog ikke muligt at sige, hvem der er hvor! (Kilde:
Bent Agger)
Fra
HAL JP336 er 3 flyvere begravet i Odder og deres navne
er blandt
47 navne i St. Clement Danes og i
Horsens.
Halifax maleri.
Se
Halifax Print * Halifax Mk III på
YAM 2019 *
folk bag en Halifax klar til en
mission. 1 blev
begravet i Sverige, 2 har ingen kendt grav og 3 blev
ført til Tyske
krigsfangelejre. 9 flyvere.
HAL JP336 had to ditch in the Kattegat (maybe about
here
northeast of Gjerrild in Djursland) on 24 April 1945.
"F/O
Lawrence Barclay Davey took off from Stornoway in HAL JP336
on 23 April 1945 at 20:15.
At midnight the plane spotted a German convoy from Norway, and
the plane was
heavily damaged by flak during the first attack. Davey tried to reach land, but
the plane had to ditch about 1 nautical mile (maybe about
here) northeast
of Gjerrild in Djursland (Gjerrild Lighthouse
here). It floated, burning, for half an hour. The fire was seen from land, but
nobody sailed out to their rescue.
When F/O Davey
got off the plane, he heard
Co-Pilot F/Sgt Thomas Ernest Parker Rosenthal shouting
for help from within the burning plane. Davey crawled into the
wreck and helped
Rosenthal out. The Wireless Operators F/O John Vilhjalmur Johnson
and Sgt
Gerard Anthony Guinane had also come off the plane and
together
they inflated their
dinghy and rowed around to find the other 5 crew
members, but in vain." (FT 91-10-54)
The crash site
here 1 nautical mile northeast of Gjerrild is indicated otherwise in 2 other
sources: FAF: 15 miles northwest of Anholt. AOD 10-15 km east of Grenå.
The key map
here shows the island of Anholt and Varberg in Sweden.
There is a ferry Grenå-Varberg. 3 airmen drifted ashore east of Odder and 2
unknown airmen
drifted in northeast of Ebeltoft.
Sergeant George Geoffrey Cockroft from the
United Kingdom was the son of Sam and Elsie Cockroft, of Halifax.
He is commemorated on the
Runnymede Memorial, Panel
274, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave.
(Source: CWGC
P/O Robert L. McKinney
and Sgt George G. Cockroft have
no known graves. They are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. (Source: AOD)
See Unknown British Airman in Dråby
and Unknown British Airman in
Hyllested. Dates and the places they were found indicate that they might be
McKinney and
Cockroft.
If that is correct, it is still impossible to establish who is where! (Source:
Bent Agger)
3 airmen from
HAL JP336 are buried in Odder, 1 in Sweden, 2 have no
known graves and 3 were taken to
German POW-Camps.
See
No. 58 Squadron RAF * RAF Coastal
Command * This
Halifax from No. 18
Group RAF took off from
RAF Stornoway. Halifax
painting
Halifax-Wikipedia*Halifax Print*Halifax-BC
Museum.Canada *
Halifax-RAF Museum *
Halifax-The Yorkshire Air
Museum * Halifax Mk III
at YAM 2019*LAN-HAL. Robin Hudson of RAFA Stornoway
sent
details of airmen from HAL JP333 * HAL JP302
* HAL JP173 * HAL PN402 * HAL JP299.
Also HAL HX224 * HAL JP336
HAL HR686
and HAL JP330
took
off from
RAF Stornoway. See Lost Airmen from RAF
Stornoway.
9 airmen.
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