Gerald O. L. Bird Updated: 15 SEP 2012
Airman: e777424.htm Surname: Bird Init: GOL Rank: F/Lt Service: RAF Sqdn: 97
P_link: p028.htm Plane: MAN L7324 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea
Crash_d: d150541 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Den 15. maj 1941 styrtede
MAN L7324 i Nordsøen. Hele besætningen omkom.
Flight Lieutenant Gerald Oscar Ladler Bird, 23 år, var søn af Clarence
Oscar Ladler Bird og Clarice Rosalie Bird; gift med Beulah Daphne Bird, Cosham,
Han var Pilot på MAN L7324. (Kilde: MACR) 1 flyver fra MAN L7324 blev begravet i Furreby og 1 i Frederikshavn. 4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 6 flyvere. On 15 May 1941 MAN L7324 crashed into the North Sea. All of the crew perished. The plane left
RAF Coningsby at 2200
hrs. on 15 May 1941 on a bombing raid targeting Berlin. He was the Pilot of MAN L7324. (Source: MACR) See Bomber
Command No. 97 Squadron and
97
Squadron Association. This Manchester took off from
RAF Coningsby. |