C. O. R. Rousseau                                                                                 Updated: 13 JAN 2019

Airman: o888440.htm Surname: Rousseau Init: ROR Rank: Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 106

P_link: p057.htm Plane: HAM P1341 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Nordenskov

Crash_d: d150142 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW

Den 15. januar 1942 kl. 21.38 styrtede HAM P1341 ned ved Nordenskov (der er her) nord for Esbjerg.
Flyet var på bombetogt til Hamburg, da det blev beskadiget af flak over Tyskland.
Den korte version: "Besætningen på 4 sprang ud med faldskærm og landede sikkert. Alle taget til fange af tyskerne.
Bur med en død brevdue fundet i vraget." (MACR - blanket om savnet flybesætning)
AOD har detaljer.

De 4 flyvere blev sendt til Tyske krigsfangelejre.
Sgt W.S.Dashwood blev interneret i lejrene 7A Moosburg / 383 Hohenfels / L7 Bankau med Sgt E.A.Moore.
Sgt A.W.Horseman i lejrene 7A Moosburg / 383 Hohenfels.
Sgt C.O.R.Rousseau i lejrene 7A Moosburg / L3 Sagan / L6 Heydekrug / L4 Gross Tychow". (Source: Lost Bombers)
4 flyvere.

On 15 January 1942 at 21.38 hrs. HAM P1341 crashed at Nordenskov (which is here) north of Esbjerg.
The plane was on a bombing raid on Hamburg, when it was damaged by flak over Germany.
The short version: "Crew of four baled out and landed safely. All captured by the Germans.
Cage containing a dead carrier pigeon found in wreck." (MACR - Missing Air Crew Report)
AOD has details.

The 4 airmen were taken to
German POW-Camps. See also The March (1945).
Sgt W.S.Dashwood was interned in Camps 7A Moosburg / 383 Hohenfels / L7 Bankau with Sgt E.A.Moore.
Sgt A.W.Horseman in Camps 7A Moosburg / 383 Hohenfels.
Sgt C.O.R.Rousseau in Camps 7A Moosburg / L3 Sagan / L6 Heydekrug / L4 Gross Tychow.  (Source: Lost Bombers)

Hampden I P1341 ZN-  took off from RAF Coningsby at 17.10 hrs on 15 JAN 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
See RAF Coningsby at RAF-Lincolnshire-info and RAF Coningsby 2018. See Duxford 2018 with BBMF  TEAM.
See No. 106 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia. See No. 106 Squadron (RAF) during the Second World War. See Google Map RAF-Coningsby. 4 airmen.