Elwood A. Townsend                                                                        Updated: 08 MAR 2021

Airman: e777728.htm Surname: Townsend Init: E A Rank: F/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 405

P_link: p334.htm Plane: LAN JB707 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d290744 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 29. juli 1944 styrtede LAN JB707 i Nordsøen i forbindelse med et bombetogt til Hamburg.

Den 7. eller 8. oktober 1944 drev C. J. Blyth ind nord for Bjerregård (omkring
her). Tyskerne begravede liget i klitterne og satte et trækors med flyverens navn på graven.
Se mere ved C. J. Blyth. (Kilde: FAF)

Flying Officer (Pilot) Elwood Albert Townsend, 22 år, var søn af William H. og Ida May Townsend, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Hans navn er på Panel 248 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC og MACR)


1 flyver fra
LAN JB707 blev begravet på Nr. Haurvig Kirkegård. 6 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
Se
Lancaster Fotos. 7 flyvere.
 

On 29 July 1944 LAN JB707 crashed into the North Sea in connection with a bombing raid on Hamburg.

On 7 or 8 October 1944 C. J. Blyth was washed ashore north of Bjerregaard (about here). The Germans buried the body in the dunes and placed a wooden cross with
the airman's name on his grave. See more at C. J. Blyth. (Source: FAF)

Flying Officer (Pilot) Elwood Albert Townsend, 22, was the son of William H. and Ida May Townsend, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 248, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC and 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 255.

1 airman from LAN JB707 was buried in Norre Haurvig Churchyard. 6 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Squadron RCAF * 405 Squadron Association * No. 405 Squadron RAF Pathfinders
See also Lancaster Photos * Lancaster - Bomber Command Museum of Canada * Avro 683 Lancaster Mk X - IWM Duxford Lancaster-WikipediaLAN-HAL

Lancaster III JB707 LQ-M took off from RAF Gransden Lodge at 22.48 hrs on 28 JUL 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See p334MACR.