William John Quike Magrath Updated: 29 JAN 2022
Airman: o888031.htm Surname: Magrath
Init: WJQ Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 82
P_link: p016.htm Plane: BLE R2772 Operation: Attack DK Crash_site: Off Egholm
Crash_d: d130840 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
BLE R2772 tog del i angrebet på Aalborg, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West den 13. august 1940.
Nedstyrtningsstedet er her.
Google Map p014-024 (Kilde: Ole Rønnest)
Tre minutter senere styrtede
3. R 2772 ned
(her) ved
Egholm. Maskinen blev knust mod store sten. Mirakuløst overlevede
Blair, Magrath
og Greenwood, omend alle tre
alvorligt kvæstede. (Find
nummeret
(1.-11.) i
angrebet på - i tekst fra Skudt ned over Danmark)
For de tretten overlevende englændere drejede det
sig om at søge helbredet genvundet og overleve næsten fem års krigsfangenskab.
I
november 1941 lykkedes det Bill Magrath at undslippe. Via Frankrig, Spanien og
Gibraltar nåede han til England i marts 1942. (Tekster fra Skudt ned over
Danmark)
Sergeant William John Guike Magrath var navigatør på R 2772.
(Kilde: p016MACR.)
Han blev
ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre.
Bombeflyet Bristol
Blenheim. p016MACR
BLE R2772 took part in the attack on
Aalborg airfield, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West, on 13 August, 1940.
The crash site is here.
See also
Google Map p014-024.
(Source:
Ole Rønnest)
Three minutes later,
3. R 2772
crashed
(here) at Egholm.
The aircraft broke up on hitting some large boulders.
It was a miracle that
Blair, Magrath and Greenwood survived, for all three had sustained serious
injuries. (Find the number
(1.-11.) in
Attack on - in text from
Shot down over Denmark)
As for the thirteen survivors, their main
concern was to regain their health and to survive almost five years as prisoners
of war.
In November 1941 Bill Magrath succeeded in escaping: via France, Spain
and Gibraltar he reached England in March 1942. (Text from Shot down over Denmark)
Sergeant William John Guike Magrath was the Navigator of R 2772. (Source: p016MACR.) 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 R2772 UX- took off from RAF Watton at 08:40 on 13 AUG 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Bristol Blenheim * p016MACR 3 airmen.