Jack Orman

Flight Sergeant Jack Orman, 21 år, var søn af John og Fanny Orman, Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 221 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Den 26. december 1944 forsvandt HAL JP320 i Skagerrak, måske omkring her. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:

"26/27 december 1944, Skagerrak.
Halifax GR.II, JP302 (V9-F). 502 Squadron, 18 Group, Coastal Command, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. (Anti shipping patrol i Skagerrak / Kattegat). 8 MIA.
Kl. 16.28 lettede flyet og først på natten meldte piloten, F/Lt Norman Victor Haynes, at han over Skagerrak blev angrebet af fire natjagere.
Der er ikke siden fundet spor af JP302 og de 8 besætningsmedlemmer." (FT 89-73-40)

"Flyet lettede 16.28 GMT fra Stornoway på anti-skibspatrulje i Skagerrak/Kattegat-området. Den første radiomeddelelse kom 16.47 GMT for at sige, at de var ved
at angribe handelsskibe. Der blev ikke hørt mere før 20.30, da et opkald sagde: "Vi bliver angrebet af en jager." Den tyske natjagerenhed i området på den tid var Nachtjagdesschwader 3 fra basen Grove i Danmark. Denne Halifax blev skudt ned af Leutnant Scheunpflug fra Stab 1 Gruppe/NJG 3, som fløj en Junkers Ju-88
kl. 20.47 om aftenen den 26. december 1944. Området hvor Halifax-flyet kom ned var ud for den nordlige kyst af Danmark."
(Oplysninger modtaget 29. januar 2010 fra Robin Hudson fra RAFA Stornoway baseret på 502 Squadrons bog om operationer - ORB.) Se Halifax Print.

Flight Sergeant Jack Orman, 21, was the son of John and Fanny Orman, of Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 221, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)

On 26 December 1944 HAL JP302 disappeared in the Skagerrak, maybe about here. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:

"26/27 December 1944, the Skagerrak.
Halifax GR.II, JP302 (V9-F). 502 Squadron, 18 Group, Coastal Command, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. (Anti shipping patrol in the Skagerrak / the Kattegat). 8 MIA.
At 16.28 hours the plane took off, and in the early night Pilot, F/Lt Norman Victor Haynes reported that he was attacked by four night fighters over the Skagerrak.
No trace of JP302 and its crew of 8 has ever been found." (FT 89-73-40)

"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.)