Kenneth Huntley                                                                                         Updated: 19 MAR 2021

Airman: e777435.htm Surname: Huntley Init: K Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 7

P_link: p034.htm Plane: STI N6013 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d010741 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Kl. 12.00 den 1. juli 1941 lettede STI N6013 fra RAF Oakington med 2 andre fly på dagangreb mod Borkum Vandflyvebase.
Sprængninger blev observeret på beddinger og i havnen. STI N6013 blev sidst set kl. 15.11, da den cirklede omkring en gummibåd med besætningen fra et ukendt
fly og så blev angrebet af 2 jagere. F/O D.T. Witt DFM fik sit fly N6005 angrebet 4 gange i træk af en Bf 109 F, som til sidst blev skudt ned af Rear Gunner
P/O J.L.A. Mills.

Stirling N3655 blev angrebet af en jager og ramt af flak, men returnerede til basen med N6005. (p034MACR)

3 af de omkomne flyvere drev ind til den danske kyst og blev begravet i Esbjerg. 4 flyvere fra STI N6013 har ingen kendt grav.

Sergeant Kenneth Huntley, 20 år, var søn af  Albert T. Huntley og Rosina Huntley, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 45 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
Han var Wireless Operator på STI N6013. (Kilde: MACR)

At 12.00 hrs. on 1 July 1941 STI N6013 took off from RAF Oakington with 2 other aircraft on a daylight sortie to Borkum Seaplane Base.
Bursts were observed on slipways and across harbour. STI N6013 last seen at 15.11 hrs. circling dinghy with crew of unknown aircraft and then attacked
by 2 fighters. F/O D.T. Witt DFM had his aircraft N6005 attacked 4 times in succession by Bf 109 F which was finally shot down by Rear Gunner P/O J.L.A. Mills.
Stirling N3655 attacked by fighter and hit by flak but returned to base with N6005.  (p034MACR)

3 of the perished airmen were washed ashore on the coast of Denmark and buried in Esbjerg. 4 airmen from STI N6013 have no known grave.

Sergeant Kenneth Huntley, 20, was the son of Albert T. Huntley and Rosina Huntley, of Pontypridd, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 45, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He was the Wireless Operator of STI N6013. (Source: MACR)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 186.

See No. 7 Squadron RAF * 7 Squadron Association.
Stirling I N6013 MG-  took off from RAF Oakington at 12.00 hrs on 01 JUL 1941. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  (p034MACR) 7 airmen.