Norman Clarke                               Updated: 26 APR 2021

Airman: a052001.htm Surname: Clarke Init: N Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 161

P_link: p401r.htm Plane: STI LK312 Operation: Drop in DK Crash_site: Limfjorden.

Crash_d: d050345 Buried_d: b180545 C_link: c052.htm At_Next: Løgstør

"Under en flyvning med våben til en modtageplads i Distrikt I, Vendsyssel styrtede et RAF fly i Limfjorden ved Livø (omkring her) natten til den 5. marts 1945. Hele besætningen omkom." (FAF)

Flying Officer (Navigator) Norman Clarke, 37 år, var søn af Charles William og Sarah Ellen Clarke, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, gift med Fanny Irene Clarke, West Bromwich, United Kingdom.
(Kilde: CWGC)
Arne Mosgaard om flyvergrave i Løgstør.

Fra STI LK312 er 2 flyvere er begravet i Fjerritslev,  4 i Løgstør og 1 i Sejerslev.
69 omkomne flyvere fra dette og 14 andre fly mindes på Mindetavlen i Rebild.
De mistede livet under nedkastningsoperationer til modstandsbevægelsen.
Af samme grund mindes de i London. Se 69 flyvere - St. Clement Danes.
Historisk Samling og Arkiv Himmerland har mere om dette fly og dets besætning. 7 flyvere.

"During a flight with weapons to a drop zone in District I, Vendsyssel a RAF plane crashed in
the Limfjorden at Livø (about
here) on the night before 5 March, 1945. All of the crew perished." (FAF)

Flying Officer (Navigator) Norman Clarke, 37, was the son of Charles William and Sarah Ellen Clarke, of West Bromwich, Staffordshire, and the husband of Fanny Irene Clarke, of West Bromwich, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
"Lo, I am with you always" Ever remembered by wife, children, mother, sisters
He
is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, P2 P145.

From STI LK312 2 airmen are buried in Fjerritslev, 4 in Løgstør and 1 in Sejerslev. 69 perished airmen from this and 14 other planes are commemorated on the Memorial Plaque in Rebild.
They lost their lives in supply operations to the Danish resistance. For the same reason they are
commemorated in London. See 69 airmen - St. Clement Danes.

No. 161 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * Roll of Honour, Tempsford
Tempsford Special Duties Squadrons * A History of Tempsford Airfield * The Tempsford Airfield Pages.
Stirling IV LK312 MA-W
took off from RAF Tempsford on 04 MAR 1945. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Short Stirling
7 airmen.