Norman Twell Updated: 14 JAN 2022
Airman: e777746.htm Surname: Twell Init: N Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 7
P_link: p347.htm Plane: LAN PB180 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Baltic Sea
Crash_d: d270844 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Den 27. august 1944 styrtede LAN PB180 i Østersøen eller den sydlige del af Øresund. Hele besætningen omkom. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:
"382 RAF bombefly bombede de centrale dele af
Kiel,
og 17 Lancasters gik tabt. PB180 gik tabt over Østersøen, og liget af flight
engineer
Flight Sergeant Norman Twell, 20 år, var søn
af Fred og Alice Twell, Hull, United Kingdom. 1 flyver fra LAN PB180 er begravet i Lyderslev, 1 i Malmø, Sverige, 2 i Kiel, Tyskland og 3 har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere. On 27 August 1944 LAN PB180 crashed in the Baltic Sea or the southern part of the Øresund. All of the crew perished. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes: "382 bombers from the RAF bombed the central
parts of Kiel
and 17 Lancasters were lost. PB180 was lost over the Baltic Sea. Flight Sergeant Norman Twell, 20, was the
son of Fred and Alice Twell, of Hull, United Kingdom. 1 airman from LAN PB180 is buried in Lyderslev, 1 in Malmø, Sweden, 2 in Kiel, Germany and 3 airmen have no known grave. See
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