Kenneth Albert Nordheimer                   Updated: 09 MAR 2021

Airman: a045021.htm Surname: Nordheimer Init: K A Rank: F/O Service: RCAF 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)

Flying Officer (Air Gunner) Kenneth Albert Nordheimer, 20 år, var adoptivsøn af Albert og
Dorothy Nordheimer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (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)
Flying Officer (Air Gunner) Kenneth Albert Nordheimer, 20, was the adopted son of Albert and
Dorothy Nordheimer, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Source: CWGC)
In proud and loving memory / of a young life / lost in the fight / for freedom
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 219.

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.)   8 airmen.