William Arthur Sharp                                                                          Updated: 12 OCT 2021

Airman: e777723.htm Surname: Sharp Init: W A Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 619

P_link: p333.htm Plane: LAN PB208 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d240744 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 24. juli 1944 styrtede LAN PB208 i Nordsøen i forbindelse med et bombetogt til Kiel. Hele besætningen omkom. Se p333MACR.

"Liget af flyets bombekaster, A. D. Aumell, inddrev ved Thorsminde strand (omkring her) og blev begravet den 12. september 1944 af den tyske værnemagt.
De øvrige 6 besætningsmedlemmer har ingen kendt grav." (FAF)

Flight Sergeant William Arthur Sharp var søn af William og Elizabeth Sharp; gift med Gwendoline Sharp, Northampton, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 222 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra LAN PB208 blev begravet i Sønder Nissum. 6 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.

On 24 July 1944 LAN PB208 crashed into the North Sea in connection with a bombing raid on Kiel. All of the crew perished. See p333MACR.

The body of Air Bomber A. D. Aumell was found washed ashore on Thorsminde beach (about here).
On 12 September 1944 he was buried by the German Wehrmacht. The other 6 crew members have no known grave. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant William Arthur Sharp was the son of William and Elizabeth Sharp, and the husband of Gwendoline Sharp, of Northampton, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 222, 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 1, Panel 96.

1 airman from LAN PB208 was buried in Sønder Nissum. 6 airmen have no known grave.

This Lancaster - see Lancaster photos - was from No. 619 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia.
See also Lancaster - Bomber Command Museum of Canada * Avro 683 Lancaster Mk X - IWM DuxfordLAN-HAL.

Lancaster III PB208 PG-S took off from RAF Dunholme Lodge at 2300 hrs on 23 JUL 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.