Ronald Walter Long Photo: Knud Riis
Updated:
10 MAR 2021
Airman: a014246.htm Surname: Long Init: R
W Rank: F/Lt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 405
P_link: p375.htm Plane: LAN PB527 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea
Crash_d: d160944 Buried_d: b111111 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 13. 21
"Under en mission til Kiel den 16.
september 1944 nedstyrtede et "Lancaster" fly i Nordsøen.
Hele besætningen
omkom." (FAF) Se p375MACR.
Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Ronald Walter Long,
24 år, var søn af Mr. J.W. Long, Windsor, Ontario,
Canada. Hæderstegn: DFC, Distinguished Flying Cross.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
R.W. Long synes at være inddrevet
ved Vejers Strand. Usikker begravelsesdato. (Kilde: FAF)
1 mand er begravet i Sønderho, 1 i
Esbjerg og 5 har ikke nogen kendt grav.
Se Lancaster fotos og
Archive Report
med detaljer og fotos. 7 flyvere.
This Lancaster crashed in the North Sea
on 16 September, 1944 during a bombing raid on
Kiel.
All of the crew perished. (Source:
FAF)
See p375MACR.
Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Ronald Walter Long,
24, was the son of Mr. J.W. Long, of Windsor, Ontario,
Canada. Awards: DFC, the
Distinguished Flying Cross. (Source: CWGC)
R.W. Long seems to have drifted in
on the beach at Vejers. Uncertain date of burial. (Source: FAF)
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 2, Panel 200.
1 airman is buried in Sønderho, 1 in
Esbjerg and 5 have no known grave.
See
No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons *
No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Squadron RCAF
405 Squadron Association *
No. 405 Squadron RAF
Pathfinders * Lancaster Photos
Lancaster -
Bomber Command Museum of
Canada *
Avro 683
Lancaster Mk X - IWM
Duxford
Lancaster-Wikipedia * LAN-HAL *
Lancaster photos
Lancaster III PB527 LQ-K
took off from
RAF Gransden
Lodge at 22.35 hrs on 15 SEP 1944.
(Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this and Archive
Report.) 7 airmen.