John Malcolm McCallum                         Updated: 08 OCT 2021

Airman: a067002.htm Surname: McCallum Init: J M Rank: Wt/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 166

P_link: p285.htm Plane: LAN ND625 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sejerø Bugt (Bay)

Crash_d: d100444 Buried_d: b120644 C_link: c067.htm At_Next: Odden/Overby

”I forbindelse med en stor mineudlægningsoperation i Danzig bugt natten til den 10. april 1944 blev mindst
8 RAF fly skudt ned over Danmark. Et af disse fly, en Lancaster, styrtede i havet vest for Nekselø.

Alle ombordværende omkom." (FAF)  LAN ND625 styrtede ned her. Se Minelægningsområder *  Lancaster fotos.
Se monument for 3 flyvere fra LAN ND625 på Odden Kirkegård.

Warrant Officer Class I (Navigator) John Malcolm McCallum var fra Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)

Besætningen er begravet i Odden/Overby (3), Kalundborg (2), Fårevejle (1) og Sejerø (1). 7 flyvere.

"In connection with a big mine laying operation in the Gdansk Bay on the night before 10 April, 1944 at least
8 RAF planes were shot down over Denmark. One of these planes, a Lancaster, crashed into the sea west of Nekselø.

All on board perished." (FAF) LAN ND625 crashed here.
See monument to 3 airmen from LAN ND625 at Odden Churchyard.

Warrant Officer Class I (Navigator) John Malcolm McCallum was from Canada. (Source: CWGC)
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 1, Panel 70.

The airmen are buried in Odden/Overby (3), Kalundborg (2), Fårevejle (1) and Sejerø (1).
See No. 166 Squadron RAF * 166 Squadron RAF-Lincolnshire.info * Lancaster-BC Museum.Canada *
Avro 683 Lancaster Mk X - IWM Duxford * Lancaster photos.
Lancaster III ND625 AS-S took off from RAF Kirmington at 21.25 hrs on 09 APR 1944.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See p285MACR. 7 airmen.