William Lewis Johnston Young  Photo: Mogens Jeppesen 06 MAR 2022
                                                                         
Airman: a113026.htm Surname: Young Init: WLJ Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 106

P_link: p071.htm Plane: MAN L7399 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Near Lilholt

Crash_d: d020542 Buried_d: b060242 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 1-7

Den 2. maj 1942 styrtede MAN L7399 ned ved Lilholt (måske omkring her), vest for Haderslev
under en mineudlægningsoperation. Se Minelægningsområder.

5 besætningsmedlemmer blev dræbt. De blev begravet i Aabenraa den 6. maj 1942 kl. 06.30. (Kilde: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Pilot) William Lewis Johnston Young, 23 år, var søn af John George Young og
Minnie Winnifred Young, Whitehouse, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

5 flyvere fra MAN L7399 blev begravet i Aabenraa. 2 flyvere blev taget til fange. 7 flyvere.

On 2 May 1942 MAN L7399 crashed near Lilholt (maybe about here) west of Haderslev on a
minelaying operation. See Minelaying areas.

5 members of the crew were killed. They were buried in Aabenraa on 6 May at 06.30 hrs. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Pilot) William Lewis Johnston Young, 23, was the son of John George Young, and of Minnie Winnifred Young, of Whitehouse, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, P 120. 
Faithful unto death

5 airmen from MAN L7399 were buried in Aabenraa. 2 airmen were captured.

See No. 106 Squadron RAF. This Manchester took off from RAF Coningsby.
7 airmen.