Den 15. maj 1941 styrtede
MAN L7324 i Nordsøen. Hele besætningen omkom.
Flyet forlod RAF Coningsby kl. 22.00 den 15. maj 1941 på et bombetogt mod
Berlin.
"S.O.S. kl. 23.00 at styrbords motor var gået i stå og den anden var ustabil, da
flyet var ud for De Frisiske Øer 20 miles nord for Borkum (her)."
(MACR)
Flight Lieutenant Gerald Oscar Ladler Bird, 23 år, var søn af Clarence
Oscar Ladler Bird og Clarice Rosalie Bird; gift med Beulah Daphne Bird, Cosham,
Hampshire, United Kingdom. Awards: D F C, Distinguished Flying Medal.
Hans navn er
på Panel 29 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere
end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav.
(Kilde: CWGC)
Han var Pilot på
MAN L7324. (Kilde: MACR)
1 flyver fra
MAN L7324 blev begravet i Furreby og 1 i Frederikshavn. 4
flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 6 flyvere.
On 15 May 1941
MAN L7324 crashed into the North Sea. All of the crew
perished.
The plane left
RAF Coningsby at 2200
hrs. on 15 May 1941 on a bombing raid targeting Berlin.
"S.O.S. 2300 hrs. to effect that starboard engine had cut and the other was
unstable when off Friesian Isles 20 miles north of Borkum
(here)." (MACR)
Flight Lieutenant Gerald Oscar Ladler Bird, 23, was the son of Clarence
Oscar Ladler Bird and Clarice Rosalie Bird, and the husband of
Beulah Daphne
Bird, of Cosham, Hampshire, United Kingdom. Awards: D F C, the Distinguished
Flying Medal.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel
29, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave.
(Source: CWGC)
He was the Pilot of
MAN L7324. (Source: MACR)
See Bomber
Command No. 97 Squadron and
97
Squadron Association. This Manchester took off from
RAF Coningsby.
See also RAF
Coningsby at
RAF-Lincolnshire-info and the present
RAF Coningsby. Lost Bombers has
this.
6 airmen.
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