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
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