Miles Carson Grant     Photo: Mogens Jeppesen    Updated: 10 MAR 2021
                                                                          
Airman: a113147.htm Surname: Grant Init: M C Rank: F/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 424

P_link: p386.htm Plane: HAL LV998 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Flensborg Fjord

Crash_d: d120145 Buried_d: b111111 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 6-11

Den 12. januar 1945 styrtede HAL LV998 i Flensborg Fjord ved Flensborg omkring her
(Kilde: Svend Gram, se Øjenvidneberetning) under en minelægningsoperation.
Se Minelægningsområder - WALLFLOWER. 6 flyvere omkom og 1 flyver blev krigsfange.

Flying Officer (Pilot) Miles Carson Grant var fra Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)

3 flyvere fra HAL LV998 blev begravet i Aabenraa, 2 i Tyskland, 1 har ingen kendt grav og
1 mand blev krigsfange og ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre.

Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission. 7 flyvere.

On 12 January 1945 HAL LV998 crashed into the Flensborg Fjord near Flensburg about here.
(Source: Svend Gram) on a minelaying operation. See Minelaying areas - WALLFLOWER.  
6 airmen perished and 1 airman became a prisoner of war.

Flying Officer (Pilot) Miles Carson Grant was from Canada. (Source: CWGC)
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 2, Panel 172.

3 airmen from HAL LV998 were buried in Aabenraa, 2 in Germany, 1 has no known grave and 1 was captured and taken to German POW-Camps.

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 424 (Tiger) Squadron
424 Squadron RCAF Association * 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron
Halifax *  Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum
Halifax Print and Halifax - Bless 'Em All. This Halifax took off from RAF Skipton on Swale.  7 airmen.