Robert Henry Galipeau                          Updated: 07 MAY 2021
                                                                               
Airman: a045010.htm Surname: Galipeau Init: R H Rank: F/Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 999

P_link: p106.htm Plane: WEL R1588 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d140942 Buried_d: b201042 C_link: c045.htm At_Next: Kirkeby

Den 14. september 1942 må WEL R1588 være styrtet i Nordsøen under et bombetogt til Bremen.
Hele besætningen omkom. Se p106MACR. 4 flyvere fra WEL R1588 har ingen kendt grav.
Den 16. oktober 1942 blev F/Sgt R. H. Galipeau fundet drevet ind nær Lakolk på Rømø, omkring her.
Han blev begravet på Kirkeby Kirkegård den 20. oktober 1942. (Kilder: FAF og AOD)
Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) Robert Henry Galipeau, 22 år, canadisk statsborger, var søn af
Joseph H. og Ella M. Galipeau, Coleraine, Minnesota, U.S.A. (Kilde: CWGC)

Han var en af de mange Amerikanske flyvere, der var gået ind i RCAF. Se Americans In The RCAF.
379 af dem mistede livet - 8 af dem ses i www.airmen.dk + R.J. Dillon!

999 Squadron? RAF 22 OTU! (Operational Training Unit - en enhed til operativ træning)
Denne Wellington startede fra RAF Stratford. 5 flyvere.

 On 14 September 1942 WEL R1588 must have crashed into the North Sea on a bombing raid on Bremen. All of the crew perished. See p106MACR. From WEL R1588 4 airmen have no known grave.
On 16 October 1942 F/Sgt R. H. Galipeau was found drifted ashore near Lakolk on Rømø, about here.
He was buried in Kirkeby Churchyard on 20 October 1942. (Sources: FAF and AOD)

Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) Robert Henry Galipeau, 22, a citizen of Canada, was the son of
Joseph H. and Ella M. Galipeau, of Coleraine, Minnesota, U.S.A. (Source: CWGC)
May he rest in peace / and let perpetual light / shine upon him. / Amen.
He was one of many American airmen who had joined the RCAF. See Americans In The RCAF.
379 of them lost their lives - 8 of them are seen on www.airmen.dk + R.J. Dillon!
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 1, Panel 38.

999 Squadron?  RAF 22 OTU! (Operational Training Unit) Wellington
Wellington IC R1588 DD- took off from RAF Stratford at 23.27 hrs on 13 SEP 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 5 airmen.