John Pearce Updated: 24 MAR 2021 Airman: o888243.htm Surname: Pearce Init: J Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 50 P_link: p074.htm Plane: MAN L7489 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: At Marienborg, Møn Crash_d: d090542 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW Den 8. maj 1942 angreb 193 fly Warnemünde (her) mens 9 Manchesters skulle bombe den nærliggende Heinkel flyfabrik. MAN L7489 blev muligvis ramt af flak og kl. 02:20 (4½ time efter start) sendte flyet radiosignal "Crew bailing out". 6 besætningsmedlemmer nåede at springe ud, før flyet styrtede ned omkring her ved Store Lind nær Marienborg Gods (her - Marienborg Alle 3A, 4780 Stege). Sgt (Pilot) Maurice Gruber, der var frivillig fra Rhodesia, blev dræbt, da bombelasten eksploderede. Den 13. maj blev han begravet som den første allierede flyver på Svinø Kirkegård.
De 6 andre besætningsmedlemmer blev taget til fange og
sendt til
Tyske krigsfangelejre.
(FT 86-87-3 og FAF) 7 flyvere. On 8 May 1942 193 planes attacked Warnemünde (her) while 9 Manchesters were to bomb the nearby Heinkel aircraft factory. MAN L7489 may have been hit by flak, and at 02:20 (4½ hours after takeoff) a radio signal was sent from the plane: "Crew bailing out". 6 crew members managed to bail out before the plane crashed about here at Store Lind near Marienborg Estate (here - Marienborg Alle 3A, DK-4780 Stege). Sgt (Pilot) Maurice Gruber, a volunteer from Rhodesia, was killed when the bomb load exploded. On 13 May he became the first allied airman to be buried in Svinø Churchyard. The 6 other crew members were captured and
taken to
German POW-Camps.
(FT 86-87-3 and FAF) Sergeant John Pearce and the 5 other POWs from MAN L7489 survived the war. See
No. 50 Squadron RAF
on Wikipedia and
RAF-Lincolnshire.info about
50 Squadron RAF.
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