James Palmer       Photo: Knud Riis           Updated: 10 MAY 2022
                                                                             
Airman: a014102.htm Surname: Palmer Init: J Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 149

P_link: p146.htm Plane: STI R9327 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Obbekær E of Ribe

Crash_d: d040443 Buried_d: b090443 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A3. 7. 14

Den 4. april 1943 styrtede STI R9327 ned ved Ribe på et bombetogt til Kiel. Alle om bord blev dræbt.
Alle 7 flyvere blev begravet i Esbjerg den 9. april 1943. (Kilde: FAF)

Styrtet var omkring her. Se monument ca. 250 m fra nedstyrtningsstedet.

Sergeant (Navigator) James Palmer, 21 år, var søn af James og Ethel Palmer, Houghton-Le-Spring,
Co. Durham, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

7 flyvere.

 On 4 April 1943 STI R9327 crashed near Ribe on a bombing raid on Kiel. All on board were killed.
All 7 airmen were buried in Esbjerg on 9 April 1943.(Source: FAF)

The crash was about here. See monument about 250 m from the crash site.

Sergeant (Navigator) James Palmer, 21, was the son of James and Ethel Palmer,
of Houghton-Le-Spring, Co. Durham, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
"Till we meet again"
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P222.
At each of the perished airmen at the IBCC see details of this Last Operation.

See No. 149 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * Stirling * p146MACR
Stirling I R9327 OJ-M took off from RAF Lakenheath at 20:39 on 04 APR 1943.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.