Thomas Alfred Wells        Photo: Knud Riis       Updated: 17 MAY 2021

Airman: a014146.htm Surname: Wells Init: T A Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 102

P_link: p168.htm Plane: HAL JB918 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea, off Holland

Crash_d: d270443 Buried_d: b290643 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A3. 7. 18

Kl. 00.41 den 27. april 1943 lettede HAL JB918 fra RAF Pocklington på et bombetogt mod Duisburg.
Flyet styrtede i Nordsøen nær øen Texel. Der var ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p168MACR)
"Duisburg. 561 fly, 17 tabt (3,0%). PFF angav at have markeret målet præcist, men de fleste af bomberne
faldt i den nordøstlige del af byen. Mere end 300 bygninger ødelagt og 130+ omkomne." (IBCC)
Se Navigation om PFF - Stifinder.

T. A. Wells drev ind ved Nymindegab (omkring her). Han blev begravet i Esbjerg den 29. juni 1943.
(Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Thomas Alfred Wells, 22 år, var søn af Alice Ethel Wells, Gillingham, Kent,
United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra  HAL JB918 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 4 i HOLLAND. 2 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission. 7 flyvere.

At 00.41 hrs. on 27 April 1943 HAL JB918 took off from RAF Pocklington on a bombing raid targeting Duisburg.
It crashed in the North Sea near Texel Island. There were no survivors. (Source: p168MACR)
"Duisburg. 561 aircraft, 17 losses (3,0%). PFF claimed accurate marking but most of the bombs fell in the
north east of the city. More than 300 buildings destroyed and 130+ fatalities." (IBCC)
See Navigation about PFF - Pathfinder.

T. A. Wells was washed ashore at Nymindegab (about here). He was buried in Esbjerg on 29 June 1943. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Thomas Alfred Wells, 22, was the son of Alice Ethel Wells, of Gillingham, Kent,
United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
We will love and remember you always. Sleep on, dear son. Reunited with Dad.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 262.

1 airman from HAL JB918 was buried in Esbjerg and 4 in HOLLAND. 2 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 102 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia* Halifax-RAF Museum*
Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum* Halifax Print* Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
Halifax II JB918 DY-T took off from RAF Pocklington at 00.41 hrs on 26 APR 1943.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See Pocklington History. 7 airmen.