James Alexander Beaton Updated: 21 MAR 2022
Airman: e777189.htm Surname: Beaton Init: J A Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 9
P_link: p113.htm Plane: LAN W4230 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Smålandsfarvandet
Crash_d: d240942 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Den 24. september 1942 styrtede LAN W4230 i Smålandsfarvandet nær Vejrø, måske omkring her. Zoom ud. LAN R5909 gik tabt i samme operation. p113MACR "83 Lancasters fra 5 BG angreb
Wismar
og den nærliggende Dornier fabrik. 4 fly gik tabt. Mellem kl. 0215 og 0400 skød
flere tyske skibe i Store Bælt mod de Flight Sergeant James Alexander Beaton var
fra United Kingdom. On 24 September 1942 LAN W4230 crashed into the sea near Vejrø, maybe about here. Zoom out. LAN R5909 was lost on the same operation. "83 Lancasters from 5 BG attacked Wismar and the Dornier factory nearby. 4 planes were lost. Between 02:15 and 04:00 several German ships in the Storebælt shot at the passing bombers. On 26 September a landing wheel and parts of a fuel tank were salvaged at sea near Vejrø. Later the body of a crew member (Sgt G.W.A. Higson) was washed ashore at Holsteinborg on Zealand, and the body of another crew member (Sgt J.W. Henry) drifted ashore on Skalø (here)." (FT 86-88) Flight Sergeant James Alexander Beaton was
from the United Kingdom. 2 airmen from LAN W4230 are buried in Svinø Churchyard, 5 have no known grave. See Vickers Armstrong Wellington * Vickers Wellington * No. 9 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * IX (B) Squadron Association * p113MACR has more. Lancaster I W4230 WS-P took off from RAF Waddington at 02:52 on 23 SEP 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this + Notes.) 7 airmen. |