Michael Andrew Brogan                      Updated: 26 APR 2021

Airman: a017001.htm Surname: Brogan Init: M A Rank: WCdr Service: RAF Sqdn: 161

P_link: p401r.htm Plane: STI LK312 Operation: Drop in DK Crash_site: Limfjorden.

Crash_d: d050345 Buried_d: b150545 C_link: c017.htm At_Next: Fjerritslev

"Under en flyvning med våben til en modtageplads i Distrikt I, Vendsyssel styrtede et RAF fly i Limfjorden ved Livø (omkring her) natten til den 5. marts 1945. Hele besætningen omkom." (FAF)

Wing Commander (Pilot) Michael Andrew Brogan, 32 år, var søn af John og Mary Brogan, gift med Audrey Jessie Brogan, Bedford, United Kingdom. Hæderstegn: D F C, Mentioned in Despatches.
(Kilde: CWGC)  Arne Mosgaard om flyvergrave i Fjerritslev.

Fra STI LK312 er 2 flyvere er begravet i Fjerritslev,  4 i Løgstør og 1 i Sejerslev. 69 omkomne flyvere fra dette og 14 andre fly mindes på Mindetavlen i Rebild. De mistede livet under nedkastningsoperationer
til modstandsbevægelsen. Af samme grund mindes de i London. Se 69 flyvere - St. Clement Danes.
Historisk Samling og Arkiv Himmerland har mere om dette fly og dets besætning. 7 flyvere.

"During a flight with weapons to a drop zone in District I, Vendsyssel a RAF plane crashed in the Limfjorden at Livø (about here) on the night before 5 March, 1945. All of the crew perished." (FAF)

Wing Commander (Pilot) Michael Andrew Brogan, 32, was the son of John and Mary Brogan, and the husband of Audrey Jessie Brogan, of Bedford, United Kingdom. Awards: DFC, Mentioned in Despatches. (Source: CWGC)  Among the chosen few, among the very brave, the very true
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, P2, Panel 136. Arne Mosgaard about these graves in Fjerritslev.

From STI LK312 2 airmen are buried in Fjerritslev, 4 in Løgstør and 1 in Sejerslev.
69 perished airmen from this and 14 other planes are commemorated on the Memorial Plaque in Rebild. They lost their lives in supply operations to the Danish resistance.
For the same reason they are commemorated in London. See 69 airmen - St. Clement Danes.

No. 161 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia* Roll of Honour, Tempsford* Tempsford Special Duties Squadrons
A History of Tempsford Airfield.
Stirling IV LK312 MA-W took off from RAF Tempsford on 04 MAR 1945. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Short Stirling. 7 airmen.