George Albert Letts                           Updated: 13 JAN 2023

Airman: a100004.htm Surname: Letts Init: G A Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 138

P_link: p397r.htm Plane: STI LK149 Operation: Drop in DK Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d230245 Buried_d: b250245 C_link: c100.htm At_Next: Søndre Nissum

Natten til den 24. februar 1945 styrtede STI LK149 i Nordsøen. Det var på vej med våbenforsyninger til
en modtageplads ved Hobro (her). Alle 7 flyvere omkom. (Kilde: FAF) 4 flyvere fra STI LK149 har ingen kendt grav. 2 er begravet i Sdr. Nissum og 1 i Nr. Haurvig. Mere ved hver enkelt flyver. Se Google Map Rebild.

Sgt Letts blev fundet ilanddrevet på stranden ved Thorsminde (omkring her).
Han blev begravet i Sdr. Nissum den 25. februar 1945 af den tyske værnemagt. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) George Albert Letts, 25 år, var søn af Mr. og Mrs. Albert Edward Letts,
gift med Jean Lucy Letts, Anerley, Kent, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

69 omkomne flyvere mindes på Mindetavlen i Rebild og i London, se 69 flyvere - St. Clement Danes.
Formodet nedkastningssted "Marie" nær Hobro. (p397rMACR)  7 flyvere.

STI LK149 crashed in the North Sea on the night before 24 February 1945. It was on its way with
supplies of weapons to a drop zone at Hobro. All 7 airmen perished. (Source: FAF) 4 airmen from
STI LK149 have no known grave. 2 are buried in Sdr. Nissum and 1 in Nr. Haurvig. More at each airman.

Sgt Letts was found drifted ashore at Thorsminde (about here).    
He was buried in Søndre Nissum on 25 February 1945 by the German Wehrmacht. (Source: FAF)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 198. 

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) George Albert Letts, 25, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Edward Letts,
and the husband of Jean Lucy Letts, of Anerley, Kent, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)

See 69 perished airmen on the  Memorial Plaque in Rebild
and in London, 69 airmen - St. Clement Danes.

No. 138 Squadron - Wikipedia * Roll of Honour, Tempsford * Tempsford Special Duties Squadrons * A History of Tempsford Airfield.
Stirling IV LK149 NF-D took off from RAF Tempsford on 23 FEB 1945. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this + Archive Report.) Short Stirling. 7 airmen.