Desmond L. Lewis-Watts Updated: 09 OCT 2021
Airman: e777699.htm Surname: Lewis-Watts Init: D L Rank: F/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 419
P_link: p299.htm Plane: HAL JP202 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sea off Nymindegab
Crash_d: d190444 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Den 19. april 1944 styrtede
HAL JP202 i Nordsøen under en minelægningsoperation til
Fakse Bugt (omkring
her -
se
Minelægningsområder.) 1 flyver fra HAL JP202 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 1 på Nysogn Kirkegård. 5 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission. 7 flyvere.
On 19 April 1944
HAL JP202 crashed into the North Sea on a minelaying
operation to Fakse Bugt (about
here - see
Minelaying areas.) Flying Officer (Air Bomber) Desmond L.
Lewis-Watts was from Canada. See
No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons *
No. 419 (Moose) Squadron *
419 Squadron RCAF 1941 to 1945
has Crew of
Halifax JP202. Halifax II JP202 VR-T took off from RAF Middleton St. George at 20.37 hrs on 18 APR 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Halifax - Bless 'Em All. 7 airmen. |