James Shield Norton    Photo: Knud Riis    Updated: 04 MAR 2021

Airman: a014026.htm Surname: Norton Init: J S Rank: F/Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 408

P_link: p076.htm Plane: HAM AE288 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sea E of Mandø

Crash_d: d090542 Buried_d: b080742 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A3. 11. 17

Den 9. maj 1942 styrtede HAM AE288 i Vadehavet ved Mandø under et bombetogt mod Warnemünde (her). (Måske omkring her - Kilde: AOD) Se p076MACR.
Alle 4 besætningsmedlemmer omkom. Sgt Jefferies og Sgt Stroud blev fundet ved Mandø.
De blev begravet i Esbjerg den 16. maj 1942 sammen med F/Sgt Sinclair.
Pilot F/Sgt J. S. Norton blev fundet drevet ind på Rømø den 7. juli 1942.
Han blev begravet næste dag i Esbjerg. (Kilde: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Pilot) James Shield Norton, 20 år, var søn af Phil J. og Amber Hazel Norton, Caledonia, Ontario, Canada. (Kilde: CWGC) 4 flyvere.

On 9 May 1942 HAM AE288 crashed into the tidal waters near Mandø on a bombing raid on Warnemünde (here). (Maybe about here - Source: AOD)
All of the crew perished. Sgt Jefferies and Sgt Stroud were found near Mandø.
On 16 May 1942 they were buried in Esbjerg together with F/Sgt Sinclair.
On 7 July 1942 Pilot F/Sgt J. S. Norton was found drifted ashore on Rømø.
The next day he was buried in Esbjerg. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Pilot) James Shield Norton, 20, was the son of Phil J. and Amber Hazel Norton,
of Caledonia, Ontario, Canada. (Source: CWGC) Of Caledonia, Ontario, Canada
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this. He is remembered on The Walls of Names
at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1,  Panel  79.

This Hampden took off from RAF Balderton. See p076MACR.
See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 408 (Goose) Squadron RCAF
408 "Goose" Squadron Association.
Hampden I AE288 EQ-H took off from RAF Balderton at 21.24 hrs on 08 MAY 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  4 airmen.