Eric Noel Jolly                                      Updated: 09 MAR 2021
                                                                             
Airman: a045020.htm Surname: Jolly Init: E N Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 405

P_link: p343.htm Plane: LAN PB239 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: North Sea off Sylt

Crash_d: d170844 Buried_d: b070944 C_link: c045.htm At_Next: Kirkeby

Den 17. august 1944 styrtede LAN PB239 i Nordsøen (måske omkring her). Hele besætningen omkom.
Flyets opgave var at kaste synlig markering og derefter bomber på målet Kiel. Andre fly kunne derpå kaste bomber efter markeringen fra denne Stifinder. (Kilde: p343MACR - rapport om tabt fly)

E. N. Jolly og K. A. Nordheimer drev i land på Rømø og er muligvis begravet i Kirkeby den 7. september 1944. En tysk feltpræst medvirkede. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Eric Noel Jolly, 20 år, var søn af Herbert og Lottie Elizabeth Jolly, Bungay,
Suffolk, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra LAN PB239 blev begravet i Kirkeby, 1 i Esbjerg og 2 i Kiel i Tyskland. 3 har ingen kendt grav.
Se Lancaster Fotos.  8 flyvere.

On 17 August 1944 LAN PB239 crashed in the North Sea (maybe about here). All of the crew perished.
The mission of this aircraft was visual marking and bombing targeting Kiel. (Source: p343MACR)
The Pathfinders helped to make bombing more accurate.

E. N. Jolly and K. A. Nordheimer drifted ashore on Rømø. They were buried in Kirkeby, possibly on  7 September 1944. A German Army Chaplain officiated at the graveside ceremony.  (Source: FAF)
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Eric Noel Jolly, 20, was the son of Herbert and Lottie Elizabeth Jolly, of Bungay, Suffolk, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
I think of you in silence / keep you in my heart / and picture you / just as I saw you last
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2. Panel 190

2 airmen from LAN PB239 were buried in Kirkeby, 1 in Esbjerg and 2 in Kiel in Germany.
3 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
See also Lancaster Photos * Lancaster - Bomber Command Museum of Canada * Avro 683 Lancaster Mk X - IWM Duxford *  Lancaster-Wikipedia *  LAN-HAL
Lancaster III PB239 LQ-D took off from RAF Gransden Lodge at 21.15 hrs on 16 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See   8 airmen.