David Arthur Drew                                   Updated: 19 AUG 2023

Airman: a048015.htm Surname: Drew Init: D A Rank: F/Lt Service: RAF Sqdn: 64

P_link: p412.htm Plane: MUS HK460 Operation: Attack DK Crash_site: Fælledparken, Kbh

Crash_d: d210345 Buried_d: b280345 C_link: c048.htm At_Next: K - Bispebjerg

MUS HK460 tog del i angrebet på Gestapos hovedkvarter i København den 21. marts 1945. Se links
om Shellhuset, også  RAF mindetavle. Se Fotos og Google Map Shell House Shellhuset.
Se også Kort over angrebet på Shellhuset fra Derek Carter.

Den blev ramt af flak placeret på Nyboder Skole her og styrtede ned i Fælledparken her ved Øster Alle
37, 2100 København Ø. F/Lt David Arthur Drew nåede at sige lidt til en dansk brandmand, inden han
døde. "Fortæl min søster, at jeg fik ret." Hentyder til at han under seneste orlov sagde, at det næste togt ville han nok ikke overleve. Maskinen blev totalt ødelagt, og to træer blev skadet så meget, at de for nogle
år siden blev erstattet af de to unge træer, der ses på billedet ved MUS HK460.

Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) David Arthur Drew, 22 år, var søn af John Arthur og Esther Elizabeth Drew,
Wool, Dorsetshire, United Kingdom. Hæderstegn: DFC, Distinguished Flying Cross. (Kilde: CWGC)
1 flyver.

MUS HK460 took part in the attack on the Gestapo HQ in Copenhagen on 21 March, 1945. See links about the Shell House, also RAF memorial tablet. See Photos and Google Map Shell House.
See also Map of the air raid on the Shell House from Derek Carter.

The plane was hit by flak from Nyboder Skole here and it crashed into the Fælledparken here at
Øster Alle 37, DK-2100 København Ø. F/Lt David Arthur Drew managed to talk a little to a Danish fireman before he died. "Tell my sister that I was right." Refers to that during his latest leave he told her that he thought that he was not going to survive his next mission. The plane was totally destroyed and some trees were damaged so much that some years ago they were replaced by the two young trees in the picture at MUS HK460.

Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) David Arthur Drew, 22, was the son of John Arthur and Esther Elizabeth Drew,
of Wool, Dorsetshire, United Kingdom. Awards: DFC, the Distinguished Flying Cross. (Source: CWGC)
See P-51 Mustang - Photos. This Mustang from No. 64 Squadron RAF took off from RAF Fersfield.
See p412MACR. 1 airman.