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 Denne flyver er en af
69 omkomne flyvere mindet på Flyverstenen i
Rebild, hvor
Rebildselskabet hvert år fejrer 4. juli i
Rebild Bakker.
Han mindes også i London.
Se 69 flyvere - St. Clement Danes. Se
Google Map Rebild med 15 fly mistet med tab af liv + 3.
Finn Buch har indhentet disse oplysninger i kort form, her som almindelig
tekst:
Natten mellem 2. og 3. December 1944 var
Stirling MK IV LK143 NF-B på operation SOE Tablejam 169/177. Flyet forlod basen
Tempsford om aftenen med kurs mod to nedkastningspladser i Danmark med
kodenavnene Meta og Marius. Fly og besætning sporløst gået tabt - men en del af
flyet blev fundet mange år senere.
Alex Nors Nielsen sendte 15. april 2011 flere oplysninger, se
En del af
en vinge med angivelse af, hvor den blev fundet. Flyet styrtede ned måske
omkring her.
CWGC: Flight Sergeant John George Harris, 20,
var søn af John og Annie Minnie Jessie Harris, Bexley, Kent; gift med Doris
Harris.
Da han ikke har nogen
kendt grav, er han mindet på the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 218.
7 flyvere.
 This airman is one of
69 perished airmen commemorated on the Aviator
Stone in Rebild where
The Rebild National Park Society every year
celebrates
4 July in the
Rebild Hills. He is also commemorated in London. See
69 airmen - St. Clement Danes.
Finn Buch has obtained this information in a short version, here as plain
text:
During the night between 2 and 3 December, 1944 Stirling MK IV LK143 NF-B was on
operation SOE Tablejam 169/177. It left Tempsford Air Base in the evening
setting course for two Drop Zones in Denmark, code named Meta and Marius.
Aircraft and crew lost without trace - but a part of the plane was found
many years later.
On 15 April 2011
Alex Nors Nielsen sent more information, see A
part of a wing with an indication of where it was found. The plane
crashed maybe about here.
CWGC: Flight Sergeant John George Harris, 20,
was the son of John and Annie Minnie Jessie Harris, of Bexley, Kent, and the husband of
Doris Harris.
As he has no known grave he is
commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 218.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 177.
No. 138 Squadron
- Wikipedia
*
Roll of Honour, Tempsford * Tempsford Special
Duties Squadrons *
A History of
Tempsford Airfield.
Stirling IV LK143 NF-B took off from
RAF Tempsford on 02 DEC
1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered
has
this.) Google Map Rebild with 15 + 3 planes.
7 airmen.
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