Woolf J. Summers                                                                                   Updated: 09 JAN 2022

Airman: e777679.htm Surname: Summers Init: W J Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 75

P_link: p272.htm Plane: STI EH948 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Kiel Bay/Baltic Sea

Crash_d: d240244 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 24. februar 1944 styrtede STI EH948 i Kiel Bugt/Østersøen måske omkring her i forbindelse med en minelægningsoperation, se Minelægningsområder.

Kun A. H. Sawtell blev fundet skyllet i land. Han blev begravet i Aabenraa den 5. juli 1944.

H. H. Bruhns, L. L. Butler, R. E. Hall, J. W. Harry, W. J. Summers og E. A. Wilkes blev meldt savnet. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant Woolf Jack Summers, 22 år, var søn af Morris og Golda Summers, Stamford Hill, London, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 238 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Short Stirling.  Google Map planesRNZAF   7 flyvere.

On 24 February 1944 STI EH948 crashed in the Kiel Bay / the Baltic Sea maybe about here in connection with a minelaying operation, see Minelaying areas.

Only A. H. Sawtell was found washed ashore. He was buried in Aabenraa on 5 July 1944.

H. H. Bruhns, L. L. Butler, R. E. Hall, J. W. Harry, W. J. Summers and E. A. Wilkes were reported Missing in Action. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant Woolf Jack Summers, 22, was the son of Morris and Golda Summers, of Stamford Hill, London, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 238, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 249.  

See No. 75 Squadron RNZAF - Wikipedia. 75 Squadron Association NZ + UK.

Stirling III EH948 AA-Q took off from RAF Mepal at 18:10 on 24 FEB 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this

75(nz)squadron has more, also 75(NZ) Squadron RAF Records from February 1944, find entry of 24.2.1944,
and see that this plane with Captain Bruhns failed to return.

Google Map planesRNZAF   7 airmen.