William Arthur Mitchell Photo: Mogens Jeppesen
Updated:
18 MAY 2021 P_link: p210.htm Plane: LAN EE117 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Ustrup Crash_d: d180843 Buried_d: b210843 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 6-8
"Natten til den 18. august 1943 angreb
næsten 600 RAF bombere den tyske forsøgsstation ved
Peenemünde på øen Usedom,
nord for Stettin. Sergeant (Air Gunner) William Arthur Mitchell,
31 år, var søn af Arthur Robert og Minnie Mitchell, Crewkerne, Somerset; gift
med Beatrice Mary Mitchell, Crewkerne, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
"On the night before 18 August, 1943
nearly 600 RAF bombers attacked the German military test site at
Peenemünde on
the island of Usedom, north of Stettin. During the return flight from this target 3 Lancasters were shot down between
02.54 and 03.11 by the very same German night fighter. All British airmen
on board perished." (FAF) See account from Pilot, Oberleutnant Hans Meisner
received from Jørgen Jørgensen,
Flystyrt.dk.
See
The Historical Technical Museum in Peenemünde. Sergeant (Air Gunner) William Arthur Mitchell,
31, was the son of Arthur Robert and Minnie Mitchell, See
monument to the crew of
LAN
EE117 erected
here. See
No. 619
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