Norman James Conway Updated: 04 OCT 2021
Airman: e777640.htm Surname: Conway Init: N J Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAAF Sqdn: 460
P_link: p218.htm Plane: LAN W4988 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: NW of Helsingborg
Crash_d: d040943 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Den 29. september 1943 blev F/O Randall og Sgt Bell repatrieret til England. (Sendt tilbage som led i udveksling af syge fanger, nok arrangeret af Svensk Røde Kors.) Kilde: p218MACR – rapport om savnet besætning. Flight Sergeant Norman James Conway, 23 år, var søn af Frederick James Christian Conway og Annie Conway, Pymble, New South Wales, Australia. Spejderfører. Hans navn er på Panel 192 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC) Se også fra den lange
version: "Piloten Randall, navigatøren, F/ Sgt Norman James Conway og mid-upper gunner,
Sgt. Herbert Bell, sprang alle tre ud med faldskærm over Øresund. Conway's
faldskærm foldede sig ikke ud og han blev dræbt. Hans lig er aldrig blevet
fundet."
F/Sgt Ward, Sgt O’Brien and
Sgt Johns all landed in Denmark. The first mentioned were taken prisoners by the
Germans, but Sgt Johns managed to escape to On 29 September 1943 F/O Randall and Sgt Bell were repatriated to England. (A number of times severely injured POWs were exchanged via the Swedish Red Cross) Source: p218MACR.
Flight Sergeant Norman James Conway, 23, was the son of Frederick James
Christian Conway and Annie Conway, of Pymble, New South Wales, Australia.
Scoutmaster. He is commemorated on the Runnymede
Memorial, Panel 192, among more than 20,000 airmen who
have no known grave. (Source: CWGC) See also from
the long version: "Pilot F/O Randall,
Navigator F/ Sgt Norman James Conway and Mid Upper Gunner Sgt. Herbert Bell
all bailed out over the Øresund. Conway’s parachute failed to open up
and he was killed. His body has never been found." |