Elmont Gasper Prest Photo: Mogens Jeppesen
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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 3-10
"Natten til den 18. august 1943 angreb
næsten 600 RAF bombere den tyske forsøgsstation ved
Peenemünde på øen Usedom,
nord for Stettin. Flying Officer (Navigator) Elmont Gasper Prest,
29 år, var søn af Melvin Allan Prest og Susan Seretha Hawes Prest, Upper
Stewiacke, Colchester Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.
(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) Flying Officer (Navigator) Elmont Gasper Prest,
29, was the son of Melvin Allan Prest, and of
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the
BC Museum of Canada. See
monument to the crew of
LAN
EE117 erected
here. See
No. 619
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