William E. McDonald                                                                               Updated: 08 MAR 2021

Airman: e777736.htm Surname: McDonald Init: W E Rank: F/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 431

P_link: p335.htm Plane: HAL LK845 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Baltic Sea

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

Den 29. juli 1944 styrtede HAL LK845 i Østersøen i forbindelse med et bombetogt til Hamburg.
HAL LK845 startede fra RAF Croft kl. 22.13 den 28. juli 1944. Denne Halifax havde fløjet 142 timer.
Denne squadron mistede 5 fly den nat. (Kilde: MACR)  Kun dette fly er medtaget i www.airmen.dk.

Liget af K. R. Miller må være drevet ind på kysten af Sønderjylland. Han blev begravet i Aabenraa på en ukendt dato. (Kilde: FAF)
6 andre flyvere blev meldt savnet.

Flying Officer William Earl McDonald var fra Canada.
Hans navn er på Panel 247 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission. 7 flyvere. 

On 29 July 1944 HAL LK845 crashed into the Baltic Sea in connection with a bombing raid on Hamburg.
HAL LK845 took off from RAF Croft at 2213 hours on 28 July 1944. This Halifax had flown 142 hours.
This squadron lost 5 planes that night. (Source: MACR) Only this plane is included in www.airmen.dk.

The body of K. R. Miller  must have been washed up on the coast of South Jutland. He was buried in Aabenraa on an unknown date. (Source: FAF)
6 airmen were reported Missing in Action.

Flying Officer William Earl McDonald was from Canada.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 247, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
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 208.

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 431 (Iroquois) Squadron * 431 Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force Association * Snowbirds in Wikipedia
Halifax-Wikipedia*Halifax Print*Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum * Halifax Mk III at YAM 2019*LAN-HAL.

Halifax III LK845 SE-J took off from RAF Croft at 22.13 hrs on 28 JUL 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  Halifax - Bless 'Em All.  7 airmen.