Henry T. Batten Updated: 13 JAN 2023
Airman: e777756.htm Surname: Batten Init: H T Rank: F/S Service: RAF Sqdn: 138
P_link: p397r.htm Plane: STI LK149 Operation: Drop in DK Crash_site: The North Sea
Crash_d: d230245 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Natten til den 24. februar 1945 styrtede
STI LK149 i Nordsøen. Det var på vej med
våbenforsyninger til en modtageplads ved Hobro (her).
Alle 7 flyvere omkom. (Kilde: FAF) 4 flyvere fra STI LK149 har ingen kendt grav. 2 er begravet i Sdr. Nissum og 1 i Nr. Haurvig. Mere ved hver enkelt flyver.
Flight Sergeant Henry Thomas Batten, 28
år, var søn af Thomas Edward og Mary Frances Batten, Callington, Cornwall,
United Kingdom. 69 omkomne flyvere fra dette og 14 andre fly mindes på
Mindetavlen i Rebild. De mistede livet under
nedkastningsoperationer til modstandsbevægelsen.
STI LK149 crashed in the North Sea on the night before
24 February 1945. It was on its way with supplies of weapons to a drop zone at
Hobro. Flight Sergeant Henry Thomas Batten, 28,
was the son of Thomas Edward and Mary Frances Batten, of Callington, Cornwall,
United Kingdom. 69 perished airmen from this and 14 other planes
are commemorated on the
Memorial Plaque in Rebild.
They lost their lives in supply operations.
No. 138 Squadron -
Wikipedia
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