Abel Baker Updated: 10 JAN 2012
Airman: e777870.htm Surname: Baker Init: A Rank: F/Lt Service: RAF Sqdn: 058
P_link: p471.htm Plane: HAL JP173 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: The Skagerrak
Crash_d: d210245 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
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Den 21. februar 1944 forsvandt HAL JP173 over Skagerrak, måske omkring her. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver: "20/21 februar 1945. Halifax GR.II, JP173 (BY-H). 58 Squadron, 18 Group, Coastal Command, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. (Anti shipping patrol i Skagerrak). 9 MIA.
Kl. 19.00 lettede
JP173. C-Charlie fra 58 Sqn angreb
6 handelsskibe i Skagerrak
og G-George fra 502 Sqn
angreb et 6.000 tons handelsskib og
fire mindre skibe 60 km Ø for Kristiansand i
Norge. JP173 og piloten F/Lt.
Abel Baker samt 8 andre besætningsmedlemmer
er aldrig fundet." (FT 89-73-41) On 21 February 1944 HAL JP173 disappeared over the Skagerrak, maybe about here. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes: "20/21 February 1945. Halifax GR.II, JP173 (BY-H). 58 Squadron, 18 Group, Coastal Command, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. (Anti shipping patrol in the Skagerrak). 9 MIA. At 19.00 hours JP173 took off.
C-Charlie from 58 Squadron attacked 6 merchant ships in the Skagerrak, and
G-George from 502 Squadron attacked a merchant ship of 6,000 tons and 4 smaller
ships 60 km east of Kristianssand in Norway. JP173 and Pilot, F/Lt
Abel Baker and 8 other crew
members have never been found." See
Bomber
Command No. 58 Squadron * RAF Coastal
Command * RAF
- Handley Page Halifax. This
Halifax from No. 18
Group RAF took off from
RAF Stornoway. Robin Hudson of RAFA Stornoway
sent
details of airmen from HAL JP333 * HAL JP302
* HAL JP173 * HAL PN402 * HAL JP299.
Also HAL HX224 and HAL JP336
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