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. (p397rMACR7 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 Stirling7 airmen.