William Basil Cooper                                                                           Updated: 13 SEP 2021

Airman: o888052.htm Surname: Cooper Init: W B Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 35

P_link: p102.htm Plane: HAL W1226 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Near Sønderborg

Crash_d: d190842 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW

 HAL W1226 blev på vej til bombemålet Flensburg skudt ned af en tysk natjager og styrtede ned nær Sønderborg.

Alle besætningsmedlemmer klarede at springe ud med faldskærm, også Sergeant (Flight Engineer) William Basil Cooper. Se p102MACR.

De blev taget til fange og sendt til Stalag VIII Lamsdorf. (Kilde: AOD, se detaljer) Læs mere om Tyske krigsfangelejre.

Styrtet var omkring her ud for Peter Graus Vej 1, 6400 Sønderborg. Nedstyrtningsstedet er ikke markeret på nogen måde. (Kilde: Gunnar Hounsgaard)

7 flyvere.

On its way to bomb Flensburg  HAL W1226 was shot down by a German night fighter and crashed near Sønderborg.

All crew members managed to bail out, also Sergeant (Flight Engineer) William Basil Cooper.

They became POWs and were sent to Stalag VIII Lamsdorf. (Source: AOD, see details) Read more about German POW-Camps.

The crash was about here opposite Peter Graus Vej 1, DK-6400 Sønderborg. The crash site is not marked in any way. (Source: Gunnar Hounsgaard)

See No. 35 Sqn RAF - Wikipedia -  one of the Pathfinder Squadrons of No. 8 Group RAF led by Air Vice Marshall Don Bennett. 

Halifax II W1226 TL-J took off from RAF Graveley at 20.43 hrs. on 18 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)

See Halifax Print * p102MACR  7 airmen.