Wellington IC R1778 - The North Sea Updated: 06 MAR 2022
Airman | Surname | Init | Rank | Service | Sqdn | P_link | Plane | Operation | Crash_site | Crash_d | Buried_d | C_link | At_Next |
e777382.htm | Dimond | LGC | Sgt | RAF | 101 | p055.htm | WEL R1778 | Bomb G | The North Sea | d301141 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
o888558.htm | Finch | RSC | Sgt | RAF | 101 | p055.htm | WEL R1778 | Bomb G | The North Sea | d301141 | o888 | o888.htm | POW |
o888559.htm | Lamont | J W | Sgt | RAF | 101 | p055.htm | WEL R1778 | Bomb G | The North Sea | d301141 | o888 | o888.htm | POW |
e777381.htm | Naylor | K | Sgt | RAF | 101 | p055.htm | WEL R1778 | Bomb G | The North Sea | d301141 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
e777380.htm | Williams | D E | Sgt | RAF | 101 | p055.htm | WEL R1778 | Bomb G | The North Sea | d301141 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
e777379.htm | Willisson | D A | Sgt | RAF | 101 | p055.htm | WEL R1778 | Bomb G | The North Sea | d301141 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
WEL R1778 havde
motorproblemer på vej til at bombe
Hamburg, så flyet styrtede i Nordsøen omkring
her kl. 20:00 den 30. november 1941.
Se
mange detaljer i
p055MACR.
Dette er en af
beretningerne om flyvere Reddet af fiskere i Nordsøen.
Sergeant (Co-Pilot) Roy St. C. Finch og Sergeant
(Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) John W. Lamont kom i gummibåden, der blev
fundet
den 2. december 1941 kl. 10:00 af den danske fiskekutter E 264 »Harmoni« af
Esbjerg. Ved ankomsten til Esbjerg blev de taget til fange
af tyskerne. De lærte en del tyske krigsfangelejre at
kende.
Sergeant (Pilot) Derek A. Willisson, Sergeant (Observer) Donald E. Williams,
Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Kenneth Naylor
og Sergeant (Air Gunner) Leonard G. C. Dimond omkom og forsvandt i havet.
(Kilder: AOD og Lost Bombers) 6 flyvere.
Mere end 8 måneder tidligere
havde skipperen på E 264 »Harmoni« af
Esbjerg set 2 gummibåde med 9 tyske flyvere, heraf 1 hårdt såret.
Han
havde brug for hurtig behandling af en læge. Fra kutteren blev en nødraket sendt
op, og en tysk hurtigbåd hentede flyverne. Skipper
Poul Poulsen fik en varm
takkeskrivelse fra den tyske kommandant. Da skipperens reder senere blev
interneret i
Frøslevlejren sammen med
andre Esbjerg-borgere, hjalp takkeskrivelsen
med til at rederen blev løsladt. (Kilde: Det er nødvendigt at sejle, s. 102)
On 30 November 1941 at 20:00
WEL R1778 crashed in the North Sea about
here
due to
engine trouble on its way to bomb
Hamburg.
See
many details in
p055MACR. This is one of the stories about airmen
Rescued by fishermen in the North Sea.
Sergeant (Co-Pilot) Roy St. C. Finch and Sergeant
(Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) John W. Lamont got into the dinghy, which was
found
on 2 December 1941 at 10:00 by the Danish fishing cutter E 264 »Harmoni« of
Esbjerg. On the arrival at Esbjerg they were captured by the
Germans. They got to know a number of German POW Camps.
Sergeant (Pilot) Derek A. Willisson, Sergeant
(Observer) Donald E. Williams, Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Kenneth
Naylor
and Sergeant (Air Gunner) Leonard G. C. Dimond perished and disappeared in the
sea. (Sources: AOD and Lost Bombers)
See
No. 101 Squadron
RAF - Wikipedia *
101 Squadron RAF *
101
Squadron Association *
No. 101
Squadron (RAF): Second World War *
Wellington.
Wellington Ic R1778 SR-G
took off from
RAF Oakington app. at16:40 on 30 APR 1941. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this.) 6 airmen.
More than 8 months earlier the skipper
of E 264 »Harmoni« of
Esbjerg had seen 2 dinghies with 9 German airmen - one of them severely
injured.
He needed medical treatment as soon as possible. A distress
signal-rocket was sent up from the cutter and a German vessel fetched the
airmen.
Skipper Poul Poulsen received a warm letter of thanks from the German
commandant. Later when the owner of this cutter had been interned in
the
Frøslev Camp together with other citizens of Esbjerg, this letter of thanks
helped the ship owner to be discharged! (Source: Sailing is necessary p. 102)