John Kinnane      Photo: Knud Riis       Updated: 08 JUN 2023

Airman: a014004.htm Surname: Kinnane Init: J Rank: F/O Service: RAAF Sqdn: 7

P_link: p034.htm Plane: STI N6013 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d010741 Buried_d: b110741 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 14. 12

Kl. 12.00 den 1. juli 1941 lettede STI N6013 fra RAF Oakington med 2 andre fly på dagangreb
mod Borkum Vandflyvebase. Sprængninger blev observeret på beddinger og i havnen.
STI N6013 blev sidst set kl. 15.11, da den cirklede omkring en gummibåd med besætningen fra et
ukendt fly og så blev angrebet af 2 jagere.  (p034MACR)

3 af de omkomne flyvere drev ind til den danske kyst og blev begravet i Esbjerg.
4 flyvere fra STI N6013 har ingen kendt grav.

Flying Officer John Kinnane, 29 år, var søn af Robert Joseph John og Mary Agnes Kinnane, Prospect, South Australia. Hæderstegn: Mentioned in Despatches. (Kilde: CWGC)

J. Kinnane blev fundet nær Ribe (måske omkring her) og begravet den 11. juli 1941. Han var Pilot på
STI N6013. (Kilde: FAF og MACR)  7 flyvere.

At 12.00 hrs. on 1 July 1941 STI N6013 took off from RAF Oakington with 2 other aircraft on a daylight sortie to Borkum Seaplane Base.
Bursts were observed on slipways and across harbour.  STI N6013 last seen at 15.11 hrs. circling
dinghy with crew of unknown aircraft and then attacked by 2 fighters. (p034MACR)

3 of the perished airmen were washed ashore on the coast of Denmark and buried in Esbjerg.
4 airmen from STI N6013 have no known grave.

Flying Officer John Kinnane, 29, was the son of Robert Joseph John and Mary Agnes Kinnane,
of Prospect, South Australia. Awards: Mentioned in Despatches. (Source: CWGC)
Ego sum resurrectio et vita: Oui credit in me... Non morietur in aeternum
"I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die." Short version of John, 11.25.

J. Kinnane was found near Ribe (maybe about here) and buried on 11 July 1941.
He was the Pilot of STI N6013. (Source: FAF og MACR) Virtual War Memorial Australia has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P194.

See No. 7 Squadron RAF * 7 Squadron Association.
Stirling I N6013 MG-  took off from RAF Oakington at 12.00 hrs on 01 JUL 1941. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  (p034MACR) 7 airmen.