Donald J. Navin         Updated:  08 MAY 2021Donald J. Navin              Donald J. Navin, Photo from Astrid van Erp

Airman: e777496.htm Surname: Navin Init: D J Rank: F/Sgt Service: RCAF 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)

Flight Sergeant Donald Joseph Navin gjorde tjeneste i Royal Air Force.
Hans navn er på Panel 105 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på
flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC) Han var Air Bomber 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)

Flight Sergeant Donald Joseph Navin served in the Royal Air Force.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 105, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He was the Air Bomber of HAL W1016. (Source: MACR)
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada. The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 217.

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.