Oliver Wiley McLean                                                                                   Updated: 23 JAN 2022

Airman: e777437.htm Surname: McLean Init: O W Rank: Sgt Service: RAAF Sqdn: 78

P_link: p035.htm Plane: WHI Z6555 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d090741 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

09 JUL 1941 forsvandt WHI Z6555 i havet under et bombetogt til Hamm. Hele besætningen omkom.

Sgt Noddle blev fundet ilanddrevet 15 AUG 1941 og begravet i Kirkeby dagen efter ved sognepræsten. (Kilde: FAF) (p035MACR)

Sergeant Oliver Wiley McLean, 24, was the son of Andrew and Franci J. McLean, of Caloundra, Queensland, Australia.
Hans navn er på Panel 62 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra WHI Z6555 blev begravet i Kirkeby. 4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.

5 flyvere.

On 09 JUL 1941 WHI Z6555 disappeared into the sea on a bombing raid on Hamm. All of the crew perished.

Sgt Noddle was found washed ashore on 15 AUG 1941 and buried in Kirkeby on the following day by the Vicar. (Source: FAF) (p035MACR)

Sergeant Oliver Wiley McLean, 24, was the son of Andrew and Franci J. McLean, of Caloundra, Queensland, Australia.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 62, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
Virtual War Memorial Australia has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 210.

1 airman from WHI Z6555 was buried in Kirkeby. 4 airmen have no known grave.

No. 78 Squadron RAF * This Armstrong Whitworth Whitley took off from RAF Middleton St. George.

Whitley V Z6555 EY- took off from RAF Middleton St. George at 23.03 hrs on 08 JUL 1941. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) (p035MACR)

5 airmen.