Anthony Alfred Arthur Bradley                                                             Updated: 18 MAY 2022

Airman: e777919.htm Surname: Bradley Init: AAA Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 051

P_link: p482.htm Plane: HAL MZ349 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d130844 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 13. august 1944 omkring kl. 02.00 nødlandede HAL MZ349 i Nordsøen på tilbagevejen fra et bombetogt til Brunswick (Braunschweig her).
Det brændte på grund af et angreb fra tysk side. (Kilde: Lost Bombers)

Flying Officer Anthony Alfred Arthur Bradley, 34 år, var søn af Walter Hermit Bradley og Edith Alice Bradley, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 204 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Mange flere end de 152 fly nævnt i www.airmen.dk styrtede i Nordsøen, men dette medtages i www.airmen.dk fordi F/O Edmond T. Tunstall fra dette fly senere blev
skyllet i land på Fanø (der er her). Fra august 1944 var det en stående tysk ordre, at omkomne flyvere skulle begraves "på stedet". Dette skete også med
E. T. Tunstall  - og efter krigen var det umuligt at finde liget af ham igen! Han har ingen kendt grav. Se mere på siden om
F/O E. T. Tunstall.

F/O A. A. A. Bradley, Mid Upper Gunner har ingen kendt grav. Sgt J. Gregory blev fundet ilanddrevet den 4. september 1944, og han blev begravet i Tyskland.
4 flyvere blev krigsfanger og blev sendt til
Tyske krigsfangelejre. Sgt E. T. Boyes og Sgt I. P. Cundall blev sendt til  Stalag Luft 7 Luckenwalde, mens F/Lt A. Hannay
og F/O R. A. McDonald blev sendt til Stalag Luft 3 Sagan. (Kilde: Lost Bombers) Se foto af besætningen.

7 flyvere. Flere links i engelsk version.

On 13 August 1944 at about 02.00 hours HAL MZ349 ditched into the North Sea on the return flight from a bombing raid on Brunswick (Braunschweig here) - set
on fire by enemy action. (Source: Lost Bombers)

Flying Officer Anthony Alfred Arthur Bradley, 34, was the son of Walter Hermit Bradley and Edith Alice Bradley, United Kingdom.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 134. 
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 204, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)

Many more than the 152 planes mentioned in www.airmen.dk crashed into the North Sea, but this is included in www.airmen.dk because F/O Edmond T. Tunstall
from this plane later was found washed ashore on the island of Fanø (which is here). From August 1944 it was a standing procedure for the Germans that perished
airmen were to be buried "on the spot". This also happened to E. T. Tunstall - and after the war it was impossible to find his body again! More on the page about F/O
E. T. Tunstall.

F/O A. A. A. Bradley, Mid Upper Gunner has no known grave. Sgt J. Gregory was found washed ashore on 4 September 1944 and he was buried in Germany.
4 airmen became Prisoners of War and they were taken to 
German POW-Camps. Sgt E. T. Boyes and Sgt I. P. Cundall were taken to L7 Luckenwalde, while F/Lt
A. Hannay and F/O R. A. McDonald were taken to L 3 Sagan. (Source: Lost Bombers) See Crew Photo.

See No. 51 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * The 51 Squadron Website * Google Map 51 Squadron. The IBCC has details at the end of the description of perished airmen.
Halifax * Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum. See Halifax Print and Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
Halifax III MZ349 MH-U
took off from RAF Snaith at 21:09 on 12 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this + Archive Report.) 7 airmen