Halifax BII HX224 - The Skagerrak Updated: 22 NOV 2021
Airman | Surname | Init | Rank | Service | Sqdn | P_link | Plane | Operation | Crash_site | Crash_d | Buried_d | C_link | At_Next |
e777759.htm | Arnold | H J | P/O | RCAF | 58 | p398.htm | HAL HX224 | Anti ship | The Skagerrak | d250245 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
e777761.htm | Brett | R W | F/Sgt | RAF | 58 | p398.htm | HAL HX224 | Anti ship | The Skagerrak | d250245 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
e777763.htm | Duncan | J | F/Sgt | RAF | 58 | p398.htm | HAL HX224 | Anti ship | The Skagerrak | d250245 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
e777757.htm | Frazer | RGR | S/Ldr | RAF | 58 | p398.htm | HAL HX224 | Anti ship | The Skagerrak | d250245 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
e777762.htm | Hammerton | H R | F/Sgt | RCAF | 58 | p398.htm | HAL HX224 | Anti ship | The Skagerrak | d250245 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
e777760.htm | Lee | G W | Wt/O | RCAF | 58 | p398.htm | HAL HX224 | Anti ship | The Skagerrak | d250245 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
e777758.htm | Lomas | J F | F/Sgt | RAF | 58 | p398.htm | HAL HX224 | Anti ship | The Skagerrak | d250245 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
a048016.htm | McLean | H | F/O | RAAF | 58 | p398.htm | HAL HX224 | Anti ship | The Skagerrak | d250245 | b100680 | c048.htm | K - Bispebjerg |
L-Lucy JP172 sporede 9 skibe i Skagerrak og
foretog et perfekt angreb. Et handelsskib blev sat i brand og kort efter
eksploderede det. P-Peter HX224 lettede kl. 16.25,
Fundet bestod af aluminiumsdele,
maskingeværammunition, en knap,
en lighter, et ur samt diverse skeletdele.
Uret bar inskriptionen
»Hugh McLean« og var givet på
On 25 February 1945
HAL HX224 was shot down over the Skagerrak about
here. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes: L-Lucy JP172 found 9 ships in the Skagerrak and carried out a perfect attack. A merchant ship caught fire and exploded shortly after. P-Peter HX224 took off at 16.25 hours and 5 hours later it was shot down by a German Major in a Ju88 from I/NJG 3. On 14 November 1979 a fisherman catching lobsters got pieces of wreckage in his net at a depth of 39 fathoms on the position 57°56N - 10°40 E. The find consisted of aluminium parts, machine
gun ammunition, a button, a lighter, a watch and human bones. The watch had the
inscription »Hugh McLean«
and it See
No. 58 Squadron RAF * RAF Coastal
Command. This
Halifax from No. 18
Group RAF took off from
RAF Stornoway. See Lost Airmen from RAF
Stornoway. |