

Francis Paul Quinn Photo: Knud Riis
Updated:
11 MAY 2021
Airman: a014075.htm Surname: Quinn Init: F
P
Rank: Wt/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 101
P_link: p126.htm
Plane: LAN W4782 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Novrup near
Esbjerg
Crash_d: d081242 Buried_d: b121242
C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg,
A3. 8. 9
Den 8. december 1942 styrtede
LAN W4782
ned ved Novrup (omkring
her) øst
for Esbjerg.
(Kilde: Kortet Flystyrt ved Esbjerg af
Torben Thorsen og Morten S. Jensen)
Det var under en minelægningsoperation i Storebælt, se
Minelægningsområder. (Kilde: p126MACR)
3 omkomne flyvere blev fundet i maskinens vrag. De blev begravet i Esbjerg den
12. december 1942.
4 overlevende besætningsmedlemmer blev taget til fange.
(Kilde: FAF)
De blev ført
til Tyske
krigsfangelejre.
Warrant Officer Class III (Pilot) Francis Paul Quinn var søn af Francis
Patrick og
Mary Josephine Quinn, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Se Lancaster fotos. 7
flyvere.
On 8 November 1942
LAN W4782 crashed at Novrup (about
here)
east of Esbjerg. It was on a minelaying operation to the area Asparagus, see
Minelaying areas. (Source:
p126MACR)
3 perished airmen were found in the wreckage. They were buried in Esbjerg on 12
December 1942.
4 surviving crew members were captured. (Source: FAF) They
were
taken to
German POW-Camps.
Warrant Officer Class III (Pilot) Francis Paul Quinn was the son of
Francis Patrick and Mary Josephine Quinn, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (Source:
CWGC)
Requiescat in pace
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, Ph1, P87.
See No. 101
Squadron RAF - Wikipedia and Lancaster photos,
Lancaster I W4782 SR-J
took off from
RAF
Holme-on-Spalding Moor on 08 DEC 1942. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this.) 7 airmen.
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