Gordon Davies Updated: 29 JAN 2022
Airman: a107024.htm Surname: Davies Init: G
Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 82
P_link: p021.htm Plane: BLE R3802 Operation: Attack DK Crash_site: At Kaas, 2 km E
Crash_d: d130840 Buried_d: b160840 C_link: c107.htm At_Next: Vadum
BLE R3802 tog del i angrebet på Aalborg, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West den 13. august 1940.
Nedstyrtningsstedet er her.
Google Map p014-024 (Kilde:
Ole Rønnest)
Ved Kaas faldt næsten samtidigt 8. R 3802 (her) og T 1827 (her). Fra det første reddede Ellen og Dance sig med faldskærm, mens Davies omkom i flyet. I T 1827 nåede Bristow at erkende, at Jones og Cranidge begge var dræbt. Han fik sin faldskærm hægtet på, fjernet flyets kamera og kom med besvær fri af kameralugen. Hans faldskærm foldede sig ud få sekunder før han nåede jorden. (Find nummeret (1.-11.) i angrebet på - i tekst fra Skudt ned over Danmark)
Sergeant (Wireless Operator) Gordon Davies var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
Bombeflyet Bristol
Blenheim. p021MACR
BLE R3802 took part in the attack on
Aalborg airfield, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West, on 13 August, 1940.
The crash site is here.
See also
Google Map p014-024.
(Source:
Ole Rønnest)
At almost the same time
8.
R 3802 (here)
and T 1827 (here) crashed
at Kaas. From the R 3802, Ellen and
Dance saved themselves by parachute, while
Davies died
in the plane. In T 1827, Bristow found time to ascertain that
Jones and Cranidge had both been killed. He managed to hook on his parachute,
remove the aircraft´s
camera,
and with some difficulty, got out through
the camera hatch. His parachute opened only a few seconds before he hit the
ground.
(Find the number
(1.-11.) in
Attack on - in text from Shot down over Denmark)
Sergeant (Wireless Operator) Gordon Davies
was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 27.
See No. 82 Squadron RAF
- Wikipedia
* 82 Squadron Blenheims,
Watton, 1940 * Bristol Blenheim
*
Aircraft
Restoration Company, Duxford -
Bristol Blenheim *
Blenheim L6739 -- Rolled Out.
Photo: RAF Memorial,
Watton by Ole Rønnest
The
reconstructed R3821 that visited
Aalborg in 2000 due to efforts by
Ole Rønnest.
Blenheim IV R3802 UX- took off from RAF Watton at 08:40 on 13 AUG 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Bristol Blenheim * p021MACR 3 airmen.