George Henry Carpenter        Updated:  08 OCT 2021                               Photo 03 APR 2015 by Henrik Laursen        

Airman: e444010.htm Surname: Carpenter Init: G H Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 619

P_link: p265.htm Plane: LAN DV330 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Langelandsbælt

Crash_d: d160244 Buried_d: e444b C_link: e444b.htm At_Next: Berlin, GER

Den 16. februar 1944 styrtede LAN DV330 i havet ved Langeland, måske omkring her, under et bombetogt til Berlin. Hele besætningen omkom.

R. C. Parry og G. H. Carpenter blev begravet i Berlin. De blev skyllet ind på Tysklands kyst i ugerne efter styrtet, siger Lost Bombers.

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) George Henry Carpenter var fra United Kingdom.
Han blev begravet på BERLIN 1939-1945 WAR CEMETERY i TYSKLAND. (Kilde: CWGC)

3 flyvere fra LAN DV330 blev begravet på Svinø, 2 i Berlin i Tyskland og 2 har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.

On 16 February 1944 LAN DV330 crashed into the sea at Langeland, maybe about here, on a bombing raid on Berlin. All of the crew perished.

R. C. Parry and G. H. Carpenter were buried in Berlin. In the weeks that followed
the crash they were washed onto German shores, Lost Bombers says.

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) George Henry Carpenter was from the
United Kingdom.
He was buried in BERLIN 1939-1945 WAR CEMETERY in GERMANY
Joint grave 8. D. 29-30. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 17.

3 airmen from LAN DV330 were buried in Svinø, 2 in Berlin in Germany and 2 have no known grave.

See No. 619 Squadron RAF * Lancaster * Lancaster Photos * RAF Coningsby at
RAF-Lincolnshire-info * RAF Coningsby 2021 * Google Map RAF-Coningsby.
Lancaster I DV330 PG-O took off from RAF Coningsby at 1701 hrs on 15 FEB 1944.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See p265MACR. 7 airmen.