William John Quike Magrath Updated: 29 JAN 2022
P_link: p016.htm Plane: BLE R2772 Operation: Attack DK Crash_site: Off Egholm Crash_d: d130840 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW BLE R2772 tog del i angrebet på Aalborg, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West den 13. august 1940. Nedstyrtningsstedet er her. Google Map p014-024 (Kilde: Ole Rønnest) Tre minutter senere styrtede
3. R 2772 ned
(her) ved
Egholm. Maskinen blev knust mod store sten. Mirakuløst overlevede
Blair, Magrath
og Greenwood, omend alle tre For de tretten overlevende englændere drejede det
sig om at søge helbredet genvundet og overleve næsten fem års krigsfangenskab.
BLE R2772 took part in the attack on
Aalborg airfield, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West, on 13 August, 1940.
The crash site is here.
See also
Google Map p014-024. Three minutes later,
3. R 2772
crashed
(here) at Egholm.
The aircraft broke up on hitting some large boulders. As for the thirteen survivors, their main
concern was to regain their health and to survive almost five years as prisoners
of war. Sergeant William John Guike Magrath was the Navigator of R 2772. (Source: p016MACR.) He was taken to German POW-Camps. See No. 82 Squadron RAF
- Wikipedia
* 82 Squadron Blenheims,
Watton, 1940 * Bristol Blenheim
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Blenheim IV R2772 UX- took off from RAF Watton at 08:40 on 13 AUG 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Bristol Blenheim * p016MACR 3 airmen. |