

Frederick Mahoney
Updated:
26 APR 2021
Airman: a052003.htm
Surname: Mahoney Init: F Rank: Wt/O Service: RAF
Sqdn: 161
P_link: p401r.htm
Plane: STI LK312 Operation: Drop in DK Crash_site: Limfjorden.
Crash_d: d050345 Buried_d: b220545
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)
Warrant Officer (Air Gunner) Frederick Mahoney
var fra 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)
Warrant Officer (Air Gunner) Frederick Mahoney
was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Ph2, Pan 203.
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. Stirling IV LK312 MA-W took off from
RAF Tempsford on 04 MAR
1945. (Source: Aircrew Remembered
has this.)
Short Stirling. 7 airmen.
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