John A. Macpherson Updated: 10 MAY 2021
Airman: e777383.htm Surname: Macpherson Init: J A Rank: Sgt Service: RNZAF Sqdn: 218
P_link: p101.htm Plane: STI W7618 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea
Crash_d: d190842 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Kl. 21.03 den 18. august 1942 lettede STI W7618 fra RAF Downham Market på et bombetogt mod Flensborg.Det var flyets første operative flyvning. De tre overlevende blev samlet op af en dansk fiskerbåd efter at have tilbragt tre dage i deres redningsflåde. (p101MACR) Se også Reddet af fiskere. Sergeant John Anderson Macpherson, 21 år,
var søn af Alfred Sinclair Macpherson og Margaret Louise Macpherson, Kaeo,
Auckland, New Zealand. 2 flyvere fra STI W7618
blev begravet i TYSKLAND. 2 har ingen kendt grav. 3 flyvere blev som krigsfanger
ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre.
At 21.03 hrs. on 18 August 1942
STI W7618 took off from RAF Downham Market on a bombing
raid targeting Flensburg.
See also
Rescued by fishermen. Sergeant John Anderson Macpherson, 21, was
the son of Alfred Sinclair Macpherson and Margaret Louise Macpherson, of Kaeo,
Auckland, New Zealand. 2 airmen from STI W7618
were buried in GERMANY. 2 have no known grave. 3 airmen were as POWs taken to
German POW-Camps.
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