Otto H. Sulek Updated: 26 JAN 2021
Airman: o888062.htm Surname: Sulek Init: O
H Rank: Wt/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 429
P_link: p390.htm Plane: HAL NR173 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sea E of Als
Crash_d: d120145 Buried_d: o888
C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
HAL NR173 var på en mineudlægningsoperation til Flensborg Fjord, da flyet blev angrebet af en JU 88G-6 og beskadiget. Se Minelægningsområder.
Flyet styrtede i havet øst for Als omkring her. Alle sprang ud med faldskærm og landede på Als, også Flight Sergeant (Mid Upper Gunner) Otto H. Sulek.
Flyverne blev taget til fange og sendt til
Dulag Luft Oberursel. Ved krigens
slutning blev de
befriet fra
krigsfangelejren ved Moosburg. (Kilde: AOD)
Se
Halifax Print * Halifax Mk III på
YAM 2019 *
folk bag en Halifax klar til en
mission. 7 flyvere.
HAL NR173 was on a minelaying operation to Flensburg Fjord, when it was attacked by a JU 88G-6 and damaged. See Minelaying areas.
The plane crashed into the sea east of Als about here. All bailed out and landed on Als, also Flight Sergeant (Mid Upper Gunner) Otto H. Sulek.
The airmen became POWs and were sent to Dulag Luft Oberursel. At the end of the war they were liberated from the POW Camp at Moosburg. (Source: AOD)
See
No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons*No.
429 (Bison) Squadron)*429 sqn RCAF Research*429
Squadron RCAF Association*429
Transport Squadron
Halifax-Wikipedia*Halifax Print*Halifax-BC
Museum.Canada *
Halifax-RAF Museum *
Halifax-The Yorkshire Air
Museum * Halifax Mk III
at YAM 2019*LAN-HAL.
Halifax III NR173 AL-D took off from RAF Leeming at 17.18 hrs on 12 JAN 1945. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See p390MACR. 7 airmen.