Den 24. august 1943 blev
HAL DK261 under returflyvning fra Berlin skudt ned af en
tysk natjager ved Mandø. Flyet styrtede ned vest for øen, måske omkring
her.
Se p211MACR med mange detaljer.
2 omkomne besætningsmedlemmer fra dette fly, F.
V. Messenger og M. W. Stevenson, blev begravet i Esbjerg den 2. september 1943.
C. W. Snyder har ingen kendt grav.
R. C. Brooks, J. Plenderleith og R. S. Welters blev taget til fange.
Det lykkedes piloten, S/Ldr Roy McLernon via Esbjerg og Århus at nå Sverige den
16. september 1943. (Kilder: FAF og AOD)
Flight Sergeant Charles William Snyder, 26
år, var søn af Charles H. og Elsie Mary Snyder, Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada.
Hans navn er
på Panel 185 på the
Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere,
der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
7 flyvere.
On 24 August 1943
HAL DK261 on the return flight from Berlin
HAL DK261 was shot down by a German night fighter at
Mandø. The plane crashed west of the island of Mandø, maybe about
here.
2 perished crew members, F. V. Messenger and M.
W. Stevenson, were buried in Esbjerg on 2 September 1943.
C. W. Snyder has no known grave.
R. C. Brooks, J. Plenderleith and R. S. Welters were captured.
On 16 September 1943 S/Ldr Pilot Roy McLernon managed to get to Sweden via
Esbjerg and Århus. (Sources: FAF and AOD)
Flight Sergeant Charles William Snyder, 26, was the son of Charles H. and
Elsie Mary Snyder, of Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada.
He is commemorated on the
Runnymede Memorial, Panel
185, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave.
(Source: CWGC)
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the
BC Museum of Canada.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has
this.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 245.
See
No. 434 Squadron
RCAF
and RCAF 434 Squadron 1943-1945.
Halifax
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Halifax-BC
Museum.Canada
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Halifax-RAF
Museum
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Halifax-The
Yorkshire Air Museum
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Halifax Print
and
Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
Halifax V DK261 IP-V took off from RAF Tholthorpe
at 20.26 hrs on 23 AUG 1943. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this.) 7 airmen.
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