Tom Graham Updated: 29 JAN 2022
Airman: o888022.htm
Surname: Graham Init: T Rank: Sgt Service: RAF
Sqdn: 82
P_link: p024.htm Plane: BLE T1889 Operation: Attack DK Crash_site: Near Vust
Crash_d: d130840 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
BLE T1889 tog del i angrebet på Aalborg, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West den 13. august 1940.
Nedstyrtningsstedet er her.
Google Map p014-024 (Kilde:
Ole Rønnest)
Se også
Historisk Årbog for Thy og Vester Han Herred
1985 Bent Rolighed:
Før flugtruterne hos Arkivthy.
Det sidste fly -
11. T 1889 - nåede stærkt skadet ud
til kysten. Da det stod Oates klart, at flyet aldrig ville nå England, vendte
han om og - efter ny beskydning -
nødlandede han flyet (her) ved Vust. Han selv
blev alvorligt kvæstet i ryggen, men både han, Biden og
Graham overlevede. To
måneders kyndig pleje af Oates på
sygehuset i Fjerritslev (her) sikrede hans
overlevelse. (Find nummeret
(1.-11.) i
angrebet på - i tekst fra Skudt ned over Danmark)
Sergeant Tom Graham var radiotelegrafist/skytte på T 1889. (Kilde: p024MACR.) Han blev ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre.
Bombeflyet Bristol
Blenheim. p024MACR
BLE T1889 took part in the attack on
Aalborg airfield, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West, on 13 August, 1940.
The crash site is here. (Source: Ole Rønnest)
The last of the aircraft, T 1889, managed to reach the coast although already heavily damaged. When Oates realised that the aircraft would never be able to make it to England, he turned the plane round and, after renewed attack by a fighter, he crash-landed (here) at Vust. Oates was seriously injured in his back, but after two months´ skilled treatment at Fjerritslev Hospital (here) he survived his injuries. His crew, Biden and Graham both survived. (Text from Shot down over Denmark)
Sergeant Tom Graham was the Wireless Operator/Air Gunner of T 1889. (Source: p024MACR.) He was taken to German POW-Camps.
See No. 82 Squadron RAF
- Wikipedia
* 82 Squadron Blenheims,
Watton, 1940 * Bristol Blenheim
*
Aircraft
Restoration Company, Duxford -
Bristol Blenheim *
Blenheim L6739 -- Rolled Out.
Photo: RAF Memorial,
Watton by Ole Rønnest
The
reconstructed R3821 that visited
Aalborg in 2000 due to efforts by
Ole Rønnest.
Blenheim IV T1889 UX- took off from RAF Watton at 08:40 on 13 AUG 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Bristol Blenheim * p024MACR 3 airmen.