John Miller Steel                                                                                    Updated: 21 MAR 2022

Airman: o888133.htm Surname: Steel Init: J M Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 15

P_link: p109.htm Plane: STI R9351 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Storebælt off Nyborg

Crash_d: d190942 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW

 Om STI R9351 på informationstavlen ved propellen placeret her:

"Flyet startede tidligt om morgenen den 19. september 1942 fra England, og var på en minelægningsopgave sydvest for Sprogø, da det kl. 06.30, i 200 meters højde, blev skudt ned af tysk antiluftsskyts. Det medbragte 8-10 søminer og et ukendt antal L-bomber."

6 flyvere fra  STI R9351 omkom, og ingen af dem har en kendt grav.

Kun Pilot Officer (Pilot) John Miller Steel blev samlet op i live af en tysk båd fra Korsør.
Som krigsfange blev han sendt til forhør i Oberursel og så til Stalag Luft III.   
7 flyvere.

About STI R9351 on the information table at the propeller placed here:

"The plane took off in the early morning of 19th September 1942 from England and was on a mining mission southwest of Sprogø when it was shot down from 600 feet by German anti-aircraft guns at 06.30. The plane carried 8 - 10 mines and an unknown number of L-bombs. 5 crew members perished. The co-pilot, John Miller Steel, survived. The crew consisted of two pilots, three gunners and one bomber."

6 airmen from STI R9351 perished and none of them has a known grave.

Only Pilot Officer (Pilot) John Miller Steel was picked up alive by a German boat from Korsør.
As a POW he was sent to interrogation in Dulag Luft Oberursel and then to Stalag Luft III. (Source: AOD)

6 airmen from STI R9351 perished and none of them has a known grave. See Photos of Thomas C. Smith. 1 man survived and was as a POW taken to Stalag Luft III.

See No. 15 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * p109MACR has more.

Stirling I R9351 LS-R took off from RAF Bourn at 20:05 on 18 SEP 1942, crashed 00:39 19 SEP. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this + Archive Report.) 7 airmen.