Herbert J. Arnold Updated: 22 NOV 2021
Airman: e777759.htm Surname: Arnold Init: H J Rank: P/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 58
P_link: p398.htm Plane: HAL HX224 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: Skagerak
Crash_d: d250245 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Pilot
Officer Herbert John Arnold, 21 år, var søn af M. Clyde Arnold og Helen
B. Arnold, Westmount, Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada. Den 25. februar 1945 blev HAL
HX224 skudt ned over Skagerrak omkring
her. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:
L-Lucy JP172 sporede 9 skibe i Skagerrak og
foretog et perfekt angreb. Et handelsskib blev sat i brand og kort efter
eksploderede det. P-Peter HX224 lettede kl. 16.25,
Fundet bestod af aluminiumsdele,
maskingeværammunition, en knap,
en lighter, et ur samt diverse skeletdele.
Uret bar inskriptionen
»Hugh McLean« og var givet på
Pilot Officer Herbert John Arnold,
21, was the son of M. Clyde Arnold and Helen B. Arnold, of Westmount, Montreal,
Province of Quebec, Canada. L-Lucy JP172 found 9 ships in the Skagerrak and carried out a perfect attack. A merchant ship caught fire and exploded shortly after. P-Peter HX224 took off at 16.25 hours and 5 hours later it was shot down by a German Major in a Ju88 from I/NJG 3. On 14 November 1979 a fisherman catching lobsters got pieces of wreckage in his net at a depth of 39 fathoms on the position 57°56N - 10°40 E. The find consisted of aluminium parts, machine
gun ammunition, a button, a lighter, a watch and human bones. The watch had the
inscription »Hugh McLean«
and it See
No. 58 Squadron RAF * RAF Coastal
Command. This
Halifax from No. 18
Group RAF took off from
RAF Stornoway. See Lost Airmen from RAF
Stornoway. |