Alfred Theodore Kelley                     Updated: 11 MAY 2021
                                                                         
Airman: a045011.htm Surname: Kelley Init: A T Rank: F/Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 15

P_link: p125.htm Plane: STI W7635 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d081242 Buried_d: b151242 C_link: c045.htm At_Next: Kirkeby

Den 8. december 1942 styrtede STI W7635 i Nordsøen på en minelægningsoperation til Østersøen.
Se Sweetpeas i Minelægningsområder. Hele besætningen omkom.
A. T. Kelley blev fundet ved Lakolk på Rømø omkring her den 12. december 1942. (Kilde: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) Alfred Theodore Kelley var canadisk statsborger. (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!
They Shall Grow Not Old: Fra Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.A.

5 flyvere fra STI W7635 har ingen kendt grav, 1 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 1 på Kirkeby Kirkegård. 7 flyvere.

On 8 December 1942 STI W7635 crashed into the North Sea on a minelaying operation to the
Baltic Sea. See Sweetpeas in Minelaying areas. All of the crew perished.
On 12 December 1942 A. T. Kelley was found at Lakolk on Rømø about here. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) Alfred Theodore Kelley was a citizen of Canada. (Source: CWGC)
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!
They Shall Grow Not Old: From Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.A.
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, P 192. 

5 airmen from STI W7635 have no known grave, 1 was buried in Esbjerg and 1 in Kirkeby Churchyard.

See No. 15 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia  *  Stirling
Stirling I W7635 LS-V took off from RAF Bourn at 16.42 hours on 08 DEC 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this + Archive Report)   7 airmen.