Graham Ernest Snook                                                                         Updated: 23 JAN 2022

Airman: e777001.htm Surname: Snook Init: G E Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAAF Sqdn: 138

P_link: p222.htm Plane: HAL JD156 Operation: SOE to PL Crash_site: Off Norsminde

Crash_d: d160943 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Natten til den 17. september 1943 blev HAL JD156 på vej til Polen skudt i brand af en tysk natjager. Det var på SOE flyvning med forsyninger til den
polske modstandsbevægelse - "Flat 5" siger Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift. Flyet gik i havet ca. 7 km ud for Norsminde syd for Århus, måske omkring her.

F/Sgt G.E. Snook fra HAL JD156 brugte som andre besætningsmedlemmer sin redningsvest efter at det brændende fly var nødlandet på havet ud for
Norsminde, men han drev væk fra de andre og har ingen kendt grav." (FT 90-64-16)

Flight Sergeant Graham Ernest Snook, 21 år, var søn af Harry Graham Snook og Henrietta Pearl Snook, Mount Lawley, Western Australia.
Hans navn er på Panel 193 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på andre flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra HAL JD156 blev begravet i Randers og 1 i Frederikshavn. 1 flyver forsvandt i havet. 4 blev reddet og taget til fange. (Kilde: FAF) 7 flyvere.

On the night before 17 September 1943 HAL JD156 on its way to Poland was shot ablaze by a German night fighter. It was on an SOE operation with supplies for
the Polish resistance - "Flat 5" says (Danish) Aviation Historical Review (FT). The plane ditched in the sea about 7 km off Norsminde south of Århus, maybe about here.

Like other crew members F/Sgt G.E. Snook from HAL JD156 used his life jacket  when the burning plane had ditched in the sea off Norsminde,
but he drifted away from the others." (FT 90-64-16)

Flight Sergeant Graham Ernest Snook, 21, was the son of Harry Graham Snook and Henrietta Pearl Snook, of Mount Lawley, Western Australia.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 193, among more than 20,000 other airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
Virtual War Memorial Australia has this. He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 245.

1 buried in Randers. 1 buried in Frederikshavn. 1 airman disappeared at sea. 4 rescued at sea by 4 men from Norsminde, who started a rescue operation, when they
had seen the crash. The airmen who were rescued became Prisoners of War. Main source: FAF.

See No. 138 Squadron Wikipedia*Halifax*Halifax Print*Halifax - Bless 'Em All*British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
See also  Tempsford Special Duties Squadrons * Roll of Honour, Tempsford 
Halifax II JD156 NF-W took off from RAF Tempsford at 1826 hrs on 16 SEP 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.