John S. Bruce                                                                                           Updated: 09 MAR 2021

Airman: e777361.htm Surname: Bruce Init: J S Rank: F/Lt Service: RAF Sqdn: 405

P_link: p343.htm Plane: LAN PB239 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: North Sea off Sylt

Crash_d: d170844 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 17. august 1944 styrtede LAN PB239 i Nordsøen (måske omkring her). Hele besætningen omkom.
Flyets opgave var at kaste synlig markering og derefter bomber på målet Kiel.
Andre fly kunne derpå kaste bomber efter markeringen fra denne Stifinder. (Kilde: p343MACR - rapport om tabt fly)


J. S. Bruce
, M. B. Calhoun og J. W. Carter har ingen kendt grav. (Kilde: FAF)
Flight Lieutenant John Samuel Bruce, 32 år, britisk statsborger, var søn af Harry og Janet Bruce, Sour Lake,
Texas, U.S.A.; gift med Hazel Elizabeth N. Bruce, Sour Lake. Master Mariner.
Hans navn er på Panel 201 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra LAN PB239 blev begravet i Kirkeby, 1 i Esbjerg og 2 i Kiel i Tyskland. 3 har ingen kendt grav.
Se Lancaster Fotos
8 flyvere.

On 17 August 1944 LAN PB239 crashed in the North Sea (maybe about here). All of the crew perished.
The mission of this aircraft was visual marking and bombing targeting Kiel. (Source: p343MACR)
The Pathfinders helped to make bombing more accurate.

J. S. Bruce, M. B. Calhoun and J. W. Carter have no known grave. (Source: FAF)

Flight Lieutenant John Samuel Bruce, 32, a citizen of the United Kingdom, was the son of Harry and Janet Bruce,
of Sour Lake, Texas, U.S.A., and the husband of Hazel Elizabeth N. Bruce, of Sour Lake. Master Mariner.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 201, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 137.

2 airmen from LAN PB239 were buried in Kirkeby, 1 in Esbjerg and 2 in Kiel in Germany. 3 have no known grave.
See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Squadron RCAF * 405 Squadron Association * No. 405 Squadron RAF Pathfinders
See also Lancaster Photos * Lancaster - Bomber Command Museum of Canada * Avro 683 Lancaster Mk X - IWM Duxford Lancaster-WikipediaLAN-HAL

Lancaster III PB239 LQ-D took off from RAF Gransden Lodge at 21.15 hrs on 16 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)   8 airmen.