Peter Russell Olliver                                                                               Updated: 16 MAY 2021

Airman:
 o888013.htm Surname: Oliver Init: P R Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 102

P_link: p159.htm Plane: HAL HR712 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Slipshavn, Storebælt

Crash_d: d210443 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
 

 Den 21. april 1943 på hjemturen fra et bombetogt mod Stettin styrtede HAL HR712 ramt af flak ned nær Slipshavn, omkring her. (Kilde: Lost Bombers)

Peter Russell Olliver og George Simpson Meldrum blev lettere såret samlet op af vandet og indbragt til Nyborg Sygehus, hvor de tilbragte flere dage.

Som krigsfanger kom de senere via
Dulag Luft Oberursel til L1 Barth / L6 Heydekrug / 357 Fallingbostel. (Kilder: FT 85-76-11 + Lost Bombers)

Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission. Se Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943. 7 flyvere.
 

On 21 April 1943 on the return flight from a bombing raid on Stettin HAL HR712 crashed, hit by flak, near Slipshavn, about here. (Source: Lost Bombers)

Slightly injured Peter Russell Olliver and George Simpson Meldrum were taken out of the water and to Nyborg Hospital where they spent several days.

As POWs they were taken to
Dulag Luft Oberursel and  L1 Barth / L6 Heydekrug / 357 Fallingbostel. (Sources: FT 85-76-11 + Lost Bombers)

See  No. 102 Squadron - Wikipedia Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.      

Halifax II HR712 DY- took off from RAF Pocklington at 21.34 hrs on 20 FEB 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See Pocklington History.

Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum. See Halifax Print and Halifax - Bless 'Em All. 7 airmen.