William Bowman Robson       Photo: Mogens Jeppesen   Updated: 30 SEP 2021
                                                                       
Airman: a113101.htm Surname: Robson Init: W B Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 83

P_link: p254.htm Plane: LAN JA967 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Near Broballe

Crash_d: d290144 Buried_d: b020244 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 4-21

"Natten til den 29. januar 1944 var RAF´s bombemål i Tyskland, som så ofte før, Berlin. Ruten både ud og hjem gik over Danmark. 4 fly nedstyrtede denne nat over Sønderjylland, heraf 2 efter at være stødt sammen i
luften over Als." (FAF)
Det var HAL JD273 nær Kliplev, LAN JB412 nær Varnæs samt efter kollision LAN JA967 nær Broballe her
og LAN HK537 nær Mjels her.

Flying Officer (Wireless Operator) William Bowman Robson var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
Se Besætningen på JA 967 og om kollisionen fra Gunnar Hounsgaard og Hærens Sergentskole.
Med filer fra Gunnar Hounsgaard til seniorsergent L.Larsen, PISEK, Hærens Sergentskole, dengang i
Sønderborg, har Forsvaret lavet informationstavlen sat op her. Zoom. Se også 1944-fotos og mindesten
og begge mindesten og nedstyrtningssted for JA967 og mindetale fra Gunnar Hounsgaard. 7 flyvere.

"On the night before 29 January, 1944, the target for a RAF bombing raid was, as so often before, Berlin. The route both out and home was over Denmark. 4 planes crashed this night over Southern Jutland, 2 of them after a collision in the air over Als." (FAF)
It was HAL JD273 near Kliplev, LAN JB412 near Varnæs and after collision LAN JA967 near Broballe here and LAN HK537 near Mjels here.

Flying Officer (Wireless Operator) William Bowman Robson was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 91.

See The Crew of HK537 and about the collision from Gunnar Hounsgaard and the Army NCO School.
With files from Gunnar Hounsgaard to SSG L.Larsen, PISEK, the Army NCO School, then in Sønderborg,
Danish Defence has made the information table placed here.
See also 1944-photos and monuments and both monuments and crash site of JA967 and
commemorative speech by Gunnar Hounsgaard. See Lancaster Photos.
Lancaster III JA967 OL-S took off from RAF Wyton on 28 JAN 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this -
see text, also about LAN HK537.) It was from No. 83 Squadron RAF. 7 airmen.