James Watters     Photo: Mogens Jeppesen    Updated: 06 OCT 2021
                                                                     
Airman: a113092.htm Surname: Watters Init: J Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 10

P_link: p257.htm Plane: HAL JD273 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Near Kliplev

Crash_d: d290144 Buried_d: b020244 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 4-17

Den 29. januar 1944 kl. 02.34 styrtede HAL JD273 ned ved Kliplev (som er her) på bombetogt til  Berlin.
Hele besætningen omkom. (Kilde: p257MACR)

Mayes, O'Connor, Saxty, Twigge og Watters blev begravet i Aabenraa den 2. februar 1944.
Da man var klar over, at der måtte være flere dræbte besætningsmedlemmer, fortsatte CBU folk udgravningsarbejdet i foråret og sommeren.
Den 30. april 1944 blev liget af F/O Miles fundet. Han blev begravet den 3. maj 1944.
F/Sgt Dudley blev fundet sidst i august og begravet den 1. september 1944 i Aabenraa. (Kilde: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Flight Engineer) James Watters var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
Halifax Print * Halifax Mk III på YAM 2019 * folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission. 7 flyvere.

On 29 January 1944 at 0234 hrs HAL JD273 crashed at Kliplev (which is here) on a bombing raid
on Berlin. All of the crew perished. (Source: p257MACR)

Mayes, O'Connor, Saxty, Twigge and Watters were buried in Aabenraa on 2 February 1944.
Knowing that there had to be more killed crew members the excavation work continued in the spring and
summer of 1944. On 30 April 1944 the body of F/O Miles was found. He was buried on 3 May 1944.
F/Sgt Dudley was found in late August and buried in Aabenraa on 1 September 1944. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Flight Engineer) James Watters was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 261.

See No. 10 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * RAF 10 Squadron Association * Halifax * Halifax Print
Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum
Halifax II JD273 ZA-Y took off from RAF Melbourne  at 2359 hrs on 28 JAN 1944.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this) 7 airmen.