Milton James Paige    Photo: Mogens Jeppesen   Updated: 11 MAY 2021
                                                                           
Airman: a113051.htm Surname: Paige Init: M J Rank: F/Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 44

P_link: p129.htm Plane: LAN W4277 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Søst Skov (Forest)

Crash_d: d080143 Buried_d: b160343 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 2-3

 Den 8. januar 1943 styrtede LAN W4277 ned i Søst Skov her ca. 4 km vest for Aabenraa.
Se monument på nedstyrtningsstedet. Hele besætningen omkom. De 7 flyvere blev begravet i Aabenraa.       

Pilot, F/Sgt M. J. Paige synes at være fundet i vandet ved Middelfart, måske omkring her.
Han blev begravet den 16. marts 1943.  (Kilde: FAF)      

Flight Sergeant (Pilot) Milton James Paige, 25 år, var søn af Lyman Willard Paige og Ella May Paige, Lennoxville, Provinsen Quebec, Canada. A.M.I.E.T. (Kilde: CWGC)          

Den 8. januar 1943 kl. 17.36 startede denne Lancaster fra RAF Waddington  på en mineudlægnings-
operation til Daffodil-området omkring her i Øresund.
Det blev angrebet af en tysk natjager og styrtede ned kl. 19.40. (Kilde: AOD) Se Minelægningsområder.
7 flyvere.

On 8 January 1943 LAN W4277 crashed in the Søst Skov (Forest) here about 4 km west of Aabenraa.
See monument at the crash site. All of the crew perished. The 7 airmen were buried in Aabenraa.

Pilot, F/Sgt M. J. Paige appears to have been found at sea at Middelfart, maybe about here.
He was buried on 16 March 1943. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Pilot) Milton James Paige, 25, was the son of Lyman Willard Paige and Ella May Paige,
of Lennoxville, Province of Quebec, Canada. A.M.I.E.T. (Source: CWGC)
In the morning and at the setting of the sun we will remember them
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, P 81.

On 8 January 1943 at 17.36 hours LAN W4277 took off from RAF Waddington on a minelaying operation
to the Daffodil-area about here in the Sound. It was attacked by a German night fighter and crashed
at 19.40 hours. (Source: AOD) See  Minelaying areas.

See No. 44 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia  * Lancaster Photos * RAF-Lincolnshire.info: 44 Squadron 
RAF Waddington now
Lancaster I W4277 KM-S took off from RAF Waddington at 17.36 hrs on 08 JAN 1943.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  7 airmen.