Joseph Georges Marcel Savard         Updated: 09 MAR 2021

Airman: a055003.htm Surname: Savard Init: JGM Rank: P/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 433

P_link: p340.htm Plane: HAL MZ899 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: SW of Langeland.

Crash_d: d170844 Buried_d: b120944 C_link: c055.htm At_Next: Magleby - L

I forbindelse med en mineudlægningsoperation ved Kiel styrtede HAL MZ899 i Østersøen sydvest for Langeland den 17. august 1944, måske her. Hele besætningen omkom.
2 er begravet i Magleby på Langeland, 1 på Bogø, 1 i Aabenraa, 1 i Tyskland og 2 har ingen kendt grav.

J.G.M. Savard drev ind på vestkysten af Langeland i Magleby sogn den 8. september 1944, omkring her. Begravelsen fandt sted den 12. september 1944 i Magleby. (Kilde: FAF)
Pilot Officer (Pilot) Joseph Georges Marcel Savard, 19 år, var søn af Joseph Odilon Savard og
Antoinette Savard, Montreal, Provinsen Quebec, Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)

Denne Halifax forlod RAF Skipton On Swale kl. 2134 den 16 AUG 1944 for at lægge miner i Forget-Me-Not,
Kiel Harbour. (Kilde: MACR) Se Minelægningsområder.
Se Print af en Halifax * Maleri af Halifax III MZ924 KN-D. 7 flyvere.

In connection with a minelaying operation at Kiel HAL MZ899 crashed into the Baltic Sea south west
of Langeland on 17 August, 1944, maybe here. All of the crew perished.
This Halifax took off on 16 AUG 1944 to lay mines in Forget-Me-Not, Kiel Harbour. (Source: p340MACR)
See Minelaying areas.
2 airmen are buried in Magleby on Langeland, 1 on Bogø, 1 in Aabenraa, 1 in Germany and 2 have no known graves. (Source: FAF)

J.G.M. Savard drifted in on the west coast of Langeland in the parish of Magleby on 8 September, 1944,
about here.
Pilot Officer (Pilot) Joseph Georges Marcel Savard, 19, was the son of Joseph Odilon Savard and
Antoinette Savard, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada. (Source: CWGC) Died for his beliefs
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this. He is remembered on The Walls of Names at
the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 238.

No. 433 (Porcupine) Squadron was formed within No. 6 Group, see No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons
Halifax *  Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum * Halifax Print and Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
Halifax III MZ899 BM-D took off from RAF Skipton-on-Swale at 21.34 hrs on 16 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) p340MACR
See Painting of Halifax III MZ924 KN-D  7 airmen.