Eugene Shadrack Masson Updated: 12 MAY 2021
Airman: a048002.htm Surname: Masson Init: E S Rank: F/Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 138
P_link: p143.htm Plane: HAL DT620 Operation: SOE to PL Crash_site: Off Store Heddinge
Crash_d: d140343 Buried_d: b190343 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.
Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) Eugene Shadrack Masson var fra Canada. (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.
Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) Eugene Shadrack
Masson was from Canada. (Source: CWGC)
The
Canadian Virtual War Memorial has
this
including
Funeral Bispebjerg
with the military honours.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, P 2, P206.
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.