James Leo Donald                               Updated: 04 MAR 2021

Airman: a055004.htm Surname: Donald Init: J L Rank: P/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 419

P_link: p259.htm Plane: HAL JD456 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sea S of Langeland.

Crash_d: d150244 Buried_d: b200244 C_link: c055.htm At_Next: Magleby - L

Den 15. februar 1944 styrtede HAL JD456 i Østersøen syd for Langeland (måske omkring her)
i forbindelse med et bombetogt til Berlin. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p259MACR) 

"Liget af J. L. Donald blev indbjerget fra Østersøen den 17. februar 1944 og begravet 3 dage senere."(FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Bomber) James Leo Donald, 25 år, var søn af Leo og Mary Matilda Donald, Grandview, Manitoba, Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra HAL JD456 blev begravet i Magleby på Langeland og 1 i Aabenraa.
4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
Se Halifax Print * Halifax Mk III på YAM 2019 * folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission.  7 flyvere.

On 15 February 1944 HAL JD456 crashed into the Baltic Sea south of Langeland (maybe about here)
in connection with a bombing raid on Berlin. No survivors. (Source: p259MACR) 

"The body of J. L. Donald was retrieved from the Baltic Sea on 17 February 1944 and buried 3 days later." (FAF)
Pilot Officer (Air Bomber) James Leo Donald, 25, was the son of Leo and Mary Matilda Donald,
of Grandview, Manitoba, Canada. (Source: CWGC) The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
Safe in the arms of Jesus, safe on his gentle breast, my soul shall rest
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada.  He is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 156.

2 airmen from HAL JD456 were buried in Magleby, Langeland and 1 in Aabenraa.
4 airmen have no known grave.
See No. 419 (Moose) Squadron described by the Bomber Command Museum of.Canada.
419 Squadron RCAF 1941 to 1945 has Crew of Halifax JD456. 

Halifax * Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum*
Halifax Mk III at YAM 2019*Halifax Print*Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
Halifax II JD456 VR-B took off from RAF Middleton St. George at 17.04 hrs on 15 FEB 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)   7 airmen.