George A. Palmer                                                                                    Updated: 08 MAY 2021

Airman: e777495.htm Surname: Palmer Init: G A Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 78

P_link: p095.htm Plane: HAL W1016 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d100842 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Kl. 00.07 den 10. august 1942 lettede HAL W1016 fra RAF Middleton St. George på et bombetogt mod Osnabrück.
Flyet styrtede i Nordsøen. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p095MACR)

C. M. Howard blev fundet drevet in på Strandlen 15 (her) den 10. september 1942.
Han blev begravet i Esbjerg den 15. september 1942. (Kilde: AOD og FAF)

Sergeant George Arthur Palmer, 27 år, var søn af  William Thomas Palmer og Susan Palmer, Welling, Kent, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 91 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Han var Navigator på HAL W1016. (Kilde: MACR)

1 flyver fra HAL W1016 blev begravet i Esbjerg, 1 i TYSKLAND og 1 i HOLLAND. 4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission. 7 flyvere.

At 00.07 hrs. on 10 August 1942 HAL W1016 took off from RAF Middleton St. George on a bombing raid targeting Osnabrück.
It crashed in the North Sea. No survivors. (Source: p095MACR)

C. M. Howard was found washed ashore in Beach Area 15 (here) on 10 September 1942.
He was buried in Esbjerg on 15 September 1942. (Source: AOD and FAF)

Sergeant George Arthur Palmer, 27, was the son of William Thomas Palmer and Susan Palmer, of Welling, Kent, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 91, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He was the Navigator of HAL W1016. (Source: MACR)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 222.

1 airman from HAL W1016 was buried in Esbjerg, 1 in GERMANY, and 1 in HOLLAND. 4 airmen have no known grave.

No. 78 Squadron RAF * Halifax * Halifax Print * Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum * Halifax Mk III at YAM 2019
Halifax II W1016 EY-B took off from RAF Middleton St. George on 09 AUG 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
  7 airmen.