Bruce Durfee Updated: 19 JAN 2021
Airman: o888309.htm Surname: Durfee Init: B Rank: F/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 405
P_link: p344.htm Plane: LAN PA988 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Near Allindemagle
Crash_d: d170844 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
Den 17. august 1944 kl. 01.45 styrtede
LAN PA988 ned nær Allindemagle (her).
Flyet eksploderede i luften og blev spredt over et stort område.
Se
p344MACR.
Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver: F/O A .B. Durfee blev interneret i Stalag L3 Sagan og Sgt J. L. Umscheid i Stalag L7. (Kilde: Lost Bombers) Se også Tyske krigsfangelejre. 1 flyver fra LAN PA988 blev begravet på Svinø Kirkegård og 2 blev taget til fange, men det lykkedes 4 flyvere at nå Sverige. Mere ved hver enkelt flyver. 7 flyvere.
On 17 August 1944 at 01.45 hours
LAN PA988 crashed near Allindemagle (here).
The plane exploded in the air and was scattered over a large area. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes: F/O A .B. Durfee was interned in Camp
L3 Sagan and Sgt J.
L. Umscheid in Camp L7.
(Source: Lost Bombers) See also
German POW-Camps. See
No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons *
No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Squadron RCAF *
405 Squadron Association *
No. 405 Squadron RAF
Pathfinders Lancaster III PA988 LQ-P took off from RAF Gransden Lodge at 21.00 hrs on 16 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See p344MACR. 7 airmen. |