Leslie Smythson                                Updated: 10 MAY 2021

Airman: a069017.htm Surname: Smythson Init: L Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 10

P_link: p116.htm Plane: HAL DT520 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sea off Langeland

Crash_d: d011042 Buried_d: b231042 C_link: c069.htm At_Next: Odense

Den 1. oktober 1942 styrtede HAL DT520 i havet omkring her ud for Nordenbro,
Langeland under et bombetogt til Flensborg. Hele besætningen omkom.

Den 18. oktober 1942 blev L. Smythson fundet i flyvraget. 
Han blev begravet i Odense den 23. oktober 1942. (Kilde: AOD)
Sergeant (Observer) Leslie Smythson, 22 år, var søn af George William og Ethel Smythson, Paddington, London, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

5 af de 7 flyvere blev begravet i Odense og 2 på Svinø Kirkegård. (Kilde: FAF) 7 flyvere.

On 1 October 1942 HAL DT520 crashed into the sea about here off Nordenbro,
Langeland on a bombing raid on Flensburg, here. All of the crew perished. See p116MACR.

On 18 October 1942 L. Smythson was found in the wreck. 
He was buried in Odense on 23 October 1942. (Source: AOD)

Sergeant (Observer) Leslie Smythson, 22, was the son of George William and
Ethel Smythson, of Paddington, London, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre,
Phase 2, Panel 245. 

5 of the 7 airmen were buried in Odense and 2 in Svinø Churchyard. (Source: FAF)
See No. 10 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * RAF 10 Squadron Association.
Halifax * Halifax Print * Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum
Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum * Halifax Mk III at YAM 2019
Halifax II DT520 ZA-J took off from RAF Melbourne  at 18.00 hrs on 01 OCT 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has  this).  7 airmen.