Michael Charles Medcalf Updated: 16 JAN 2023
Airman: e777881.htm Surname: Medcalf Init: M C Rank: Wt/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 502
P_link: p470.htm Plane: HAL JP302 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: The Skagerrak
Crash_d: d261244 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Warrant Officer Michael Charles Medcalf, 21 år, var søn af Charles
Frederick og Florence Gertrude Medcalf, Kenton, Middlesex, United Kingdom. Den 26. december 1944 forsvandt HAL JP320 i Skagerrak, måske omkring her. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:
"26/27 december 1944, Skagerrak.
Warrant Officer Michael Charles
Medcalf, 21, was the son of Charles Frederick and Florence Gertrude Medcalf,
of Kenton, Middlesex, United Kingdom. On 26 December 1944 HAL JP302 disappeared in the Skagerrak, maybe about here. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:
"26/27 December 1944, the Skagerrak.
"The aircraft
took-off Stornoway 16-28 GMT on anti-shipping patrol in the Skagerrak/Kattegat
area. The first radio message came at 19-47 GMT to say they were
attacking merchant ships. Nothing else was heard until 20-30, when a call was heard saying, 'We are being attacked by an enemy fighter.' The German night fighter unit in the area at that time was Nachtjagdesschwader 3, based at Grove, Denmark. The Halifax was shot-down by Leutnant Scheunpflug of Stab 1 Gruppe/NJG 3, flying a Junkers Ju-88 at 20-47 on the night of 26/12/1944. The area where the Halifax came down was off the northern coast of Denmark." (Information received on 29 January 2010 from Robin Hudson of RAFA Stornoway based on the 502 Squadron Operational Record Book - ORB.) See RAF Coastal
Command * No. 502 Squadron
RAF. This
Halifax from No. 18
Group RAF took
off from
RAF Stornoway. Robin Hudson of RAFA Stornoway
sent
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