Robin Harold Croucher Burgess Updated: 16 MAY 2022
Airman: e333003.htm Surname: Burgess Init: RHC Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 97
P_link: p341.htm Plane: LAN NE167 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Off Swinemünde
Crash_d: d170844 Buried_d: e333 C_link: e333.htm At_Next: POLAND
LAN NE167 startede fra RAF Coningsby 16. august 1944 på minelægningstogt og blev skudt ned over Østersøen nær Swinemünde=Swinoujscie. Se LAN NE167 med mange detaljer om operationen og nedskydningen. Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Robin Harold Croucher Burgess var fra United Kingdom. Han er begravet på Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery i Polen. (Kilde: CWGC) "Liget af flyets Mid Upper Gunner, Sgt
Terence Michael Twomey, DFM, blev fundet ved Dueodde
(omkring
her) den 27. september 1944, og han blev begravet på Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Robin Harold
Croucher Burgess was from the United Kingdom. He rests in
Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery
Coll.grave 5. C. 1-10 The operation caused closure of the channel for
several weeks, and Porter´s clever stewardship of the minelaying resulted in a post
mortem award of a Bar to
Lancaster III
NE167 OF-Y took off from
RAF Coningsby at 21:21
on 16 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew
Remembered has
this.)
See
Lancaster Photos. |