Mervyn G. Fife                                                                                         Updated: 10 MAR 2021

Airman: e444013.htm Surname: Fife Init: M G 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: e444 C_link: e444.htm At_Next: GERMANY

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 (Air Bomber) Mervyn George Fife, 25 år, var søn af Mervyn og Emily Fife, Riverside, Ontario, Canada.
Han blev begravet på Kiel War Cemetery i TYSKLAND.
(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 (Air Bomber) Mervyn George Fife, 25, was the son of Mervyn and Emily Fife, of Riverside, Ontario, Canada.
He was buried in the Kiel War Cemetery in GERMANY. (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 163.


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
HalifaxHalifax-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.