Horace Robert Harrap Updated: 12 MAY 2021
Airman: a048001.htm Surname: Harrap Init: H R Rank: Sgt Service: RNZAF Sqdn: 138
P_link: p143.htm Plane: HAL DT620 Operation: SOE to PL Crash_site: Off Store Heddinge
Crash_d: d140343 Buried_d: b070443 C_link: c048.htm At_Next: K - Bispebjerg
"Under en SOE-flyvning til Polen med
våbenforsyninger blev Halifax DT620 skudt ned over Stevns. Flyet nedstyrtede den
14. marts 1943 kl. 21.45 på 7-8 m vand ved Harvig. Alle ombordværende blev
dræbt." (FAF)
Se
Google Map p143 HAL DT620. Zoom. SDFE-kort
HAL DT620.
FLUKO - tysk kort.
Overblik over besætningen.
Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver.
Se 5 sider om
Halifax II DT620 skudt ned
over Østersøen ud for Stevns 14/3-1943.
Sergeant (Pilot) Horace Robert Harrap, 25 år, var søn af Henry Edmond og
Rosina Harrap,
Wellington, New Zealand.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Fra HAL DT620 blev 5
flyvere begravet på Bispebjerg og 1 i Sverige, mens 1 har ingen kendt grav.
7 flyvere.
"Halifax DT620 was shot down over Stevns
on a SOE-operation to Poland with supplies of
weapons. The plane ditched on 14
March 1943 at 21:45 in the sea at Harvig at a depth of 7-8 m.
All on board were
killed." (FAF)
See
Google Map p143 HAL DT620. Zoom.
SDFE-map HAL
DT620. Overview of the crew.
(Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes.
See 5 pages about
Halifax II DT620 shot
down over the Baltic Sea off Stevns on 14 March 1943.
Sergeant (Pilot) Horace Robert Harrap, 25, was the son of Henry Edmond
and Rosina Harrap,
of Wellington, New Zealand. (Source:
CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, P2, P177.
5
airmen from HAL DT620 were buried in Bispebjerg and 1 in Sweden, while 1 has no known grave.
See p143MACR about this crew and
FLUKO - German map.
See Halifax Print *
Halifax - Bless 'Em All
Lancaster+Halifax *
Tempsford Special
Duties Squadrons *
Special
Operations Executive
35 Airmen shot down over
Denmark on SOE Missions to Poland *
No. 138
Squadron * RAF
Tempsford
Roll of Honour, Tempsford
7 airmen.