Allan A. Desilets                                                                                     Updated: 11 OCT 2021

Airman: e777104.htm Surname: Desilets Init: A A Rank: F/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 206

P_link: p332.htm Plane: B24 EV947 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: Skagerak

Crash_d: d150744 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

B24 EV947 forsvandt den 15. juli 1944 under anti shipping patrulje over Nordsøen og Skagerrak. Flyet formodes nødlandet i Skagerrak.

Liget af F/O L.B. Mollard blev fundet ved Højen (omkring her) den 4. september, og den 7. september blev han begravet på Skagen Kirkegård af
pastor H.P. Waage Beck.
Et andet besætningsmedlem, P/O Hilton, blev fundet i en gummibåd på havet, og han er begravet i England.

Fra B24 EV947 har 8 flyvere ingen kendt grav. (Kilder: FT 89-72-37 og FAF)

Flying Officer Albert Antoine Desilets, 23 år, var søn af Wilfrid og Lillian Desilets, Norwood, Manitoba, Canada.
Hans navn er på Panel 245 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
10 flyvere.

On 15 July 1944 B24 EV947 disappeared on an anti shipping patrol over the North Sea and the Skagerrak, presumably ditched in the Skagerrak.

The body of F/O L.B. Mollard was found at Højen (about here) on 4 September, and he was buried in Skagen Cemetery on 7 September by
vicar H.P. Waage Beck.
Another crew member, P/O Hilton, was found in a dinghy at sea, and he is buried in England.

8 airmen from B24 EV947 have no known grave. (Sources: FT 89-72-37 and FAF)

Flying Officer Albert Antoine Desilets, 23, was the son of Wilfrid and Lillian Desilets, of Norwood, Manitoba, Canada.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 245, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)

This B-24 Liberator from No. 206 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia - a plane from Coastal Command - took off from RAF Leuchars.
See also RAF Leuchars - RAF Station homepage.  10 airmen.