Jack Cartmell Updated: 17 JAN 2023
Airman: e777888.htm Surname: Cartmell Init: J Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 058
P_link: p471.htm Plane: HAL JP173 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: The Skagerrak
Crash_d: d210245 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Sergeant Jack Cartmell, 21 år, var søn af John og Jane Cartmell,
Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Den 21. februar 1944 forsvandt HAL JP173 over Skagerrak, måske omkring her. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver: "20/21 februar 1945. Halifax GR.II, JP173 (BY-H). 58 Squadron, 18 Group, Coastal Command, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. (Anti shipping patrol i Skagerrak). 9 MIA.
Kl. 19.00 lettede
JP173. C-Charlie fra 58 Sqn angreb
6 handelsskibe i Skagerrak
og G-George fra 502 Sqn
angreb et 6.000 tons handelsskib og
fire mindre skibe 60 km Ø for
Kristiansand i
Norge. JP173 og piloten F/Lt.
Abel Baker samt 8 andre besætningsmedlemmer
er aldrig fundet." (FT 89-73-41) Se
Halifax Print. 9 flyvere. On 21 February 1944 HAL JP173 disappeared over the Skagerrak, maybe about here. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes: "20/21 February 1945. Halifax GR.II, JP173 (BY-H). 58 Squadron, 18 Group, Coastal Command, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. (Anti shipping patrol in the Skagerrak). 9 MIA. At 19:00 JP173 took off.
C-Charlie from 58 Squadron attacked 6 merchant ships in the Skagerrak, and
G-George from 502 Squadron attacked a merchant ship of 6,000 tons and 4 smaller
ships 60 km east of
Kristiansand in Norway. JP173 and Pilot, F/Lt
Abel Baker and 8 other crew
members have never been found." See
RAF Coastal
Command * No. 58
Squadron RAF - Wikipedia. This
Halifax from No. 18
Group RAF took off from
RAF Stornoway. Robin Hudson of RAFA Stornoway sent details of airmen from HAL JP333 *HAL JP302
*HAL JP173 *HAL PN402 *HAL JP299
*HAL JP330.
Also HAL HX224 * HAL HR686 * HAL JP336 took
off from |