Michael Joseph Petrina  Photo 26 JUL 2014, AS    Updated: 09 OCT 2021

Airman: a062002.htm Surname: Petrina Init: M J Rank: F/Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 419

P_link: p299.htm Plane: HAL JP202 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sea off Nymindegab

Crash_d: d190444 Buried_d: b220844 C_link: c062.htm At_Next: Nysogn

Den 19. april 1944 styrtede HAL JP202 i Nordsøen under en minelægningsoperation til Fakse Bugt
(omkring her - se Minelægningsområder.) Hele besætningen omkom. Se p299MACR.

"Flyets maskinist M. J. Petrina ilanddrev den 22. august 1944 ved det tyske støttepunkt Kryle, Houvig
(her, tæt på her). Samme aften kl. ca. 22 begravedes flyveren (på Nysogn Kirkegård) af værnemagten uden
gejstlig medvirken men i overværelse af 2 danske politifolk. Det var overbetjentene K. P. Kristensen og
L. V. Knudsen, begge Ringkøbing." (FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Michael Joseph Petrina, 23 år, var søn af Fred og Mary Petrina, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)
1 flyver fra HAL JP202 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 1 på Nysogn Kirkegård. 5 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission. 7 flyvere.

On 19 April 1944 HAL JP202 crashed into the North Sea on a minelaying operation to Fakse Bugt
(about here - see Minelaying areas.) All of the crew perished. See p299MACR.

On 22 August 1944 Flight Engineer M. J. Petrina was washed ashore near the German strongpoint Kryle, Houvig (here, at closer range here). At about 22:00 hours in the same evening he was buried in Nysogn Churchyard by the German Wehrmacht without ecclesiastical assistance but attended by 2 Danish policemen - Police Sergeant K. P. Kristensen and Police Sergeant L. V. Knudsen, both of them from Ringkøbing.
(Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Michael Joseph Petrina, 23, was the son of Fred and Mary Petrina,
of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. (Source: CWGC) The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
Here lies my dear son Michael whom I shall never forget. He is always in my heart
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 225. 
1 airman from HAL JP202 was buried in Esbjerg and 1 in Nysogn Churchyard. 5 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 419 (Moose) Squadron * 419 Squadron RCAF 1941 to 1945 has Crew of Halifax JP202.
Halifax-Wikipedia*Halifax Print*Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum * Halifax Mk III at YAM 2019*LAN-HAL.
Halifax II JP202 VR-T took off from RAF Middleton St. George at 20.37 hrs on 18 APR 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)Halifax - Bless 'Em All. 7 airmen.