

Angus John Mathewson Milne
Knud Riis
Updated:
12 JUN 2022
Airman: a014171.htm Surname: Milne Init: AJM
Rank: F/Lt Service: RAF Sqdn: 138
P_link: p221.htm
Plane: HAL JD269 Operation: SOE to PL Crash_site: N of Esbjerg
Crash_d: d140943 Buried_d: b210943
C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg,
A. 8. 4
Den 14. september 1943 styrtede
HAL JD269
brændende ned ved banelinjen 6 km nord for Esbjerg (omkring
her).
(Kilde: Kortet Flystyrt ved Esbjerg af Torben
Thorsen og Morten S. Jensen)
Flyet var på en
våbenflyvning til
den polske modstandsbevægelse. Hele besætningen omkom.
De
7 flyvere blev begravet i Esbjerg den 21. september 1943.
(Kilde: FAF)
Flight Lieutenant Angus John Mathewson Milne,
21 år, var søn af John Mathewson Milne og
Joan Anderson Milne, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Se
Halifax Print
og
folk bag en Halifax klar til en
mission. 7 flyvere.
On 14 September 1943
HAL JD269 crashed, burning, near the railway line 4 miles
north of Esbjerg (about
here).
(Source: The map Air Crashes at Esbjerg by
Torben Thorsen and Morten S. Jensen)
The plane was on a supply operation to the
Polish resistance movement. All of
the crew perished.
The 7 airmen were buried in Esbjerg on 21 September 1943. (Source: FAF)
Flight Lieutenant Angus John Mathewson Milne,
21, was the son of John Mathewson Milne and
Joan Anderson Milne, of Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom. Awards: DFC, the
Distinguished Flying Cross.(Source:
CWGC) "I saw the powers of darkness put to flight I saw the morning break"
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 212.
See
No. 138 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia
*
RAF Tempsford
*
Halifax Print *
Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
Roll of Honour, Tempsford
*
Tempsford Special Duties Squadrons
Halifax II JD269 NF-Q
took off from RAF Tempsford
at 18:04 on 14 SEP 1943. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this.) 7 airmen.
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