Halifax II JP202 - The North Sea off Nymindegab Updated: 09 OCT 2021
Airman | Surname | Init | Rank | Service | Sqdn | P_link | Plane | Operation | Crash_site | Crash_d | Buried_d | C_link | At_Next |
e777703.htm | Dwyer | R O | Wt/O | RCAF | 419 | p299.htm | HAL JP202 | Minelaying | Sea off Nymindegab | d190444 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
e777701.htm | Gares | E J | WT/O | RCAF | 419 | p299.htm | HAL JP202 | Minelaying | Sea off Nymindegab | d190444 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
e777700.htm | Hickson | FJN | F/Sgt | RAF | 419 | p299.htm | HAL JP202 | Minelaying | Sea off Nymindegab | d190444 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
e777699.htm | Lewis-Watts | D L | F/O | RCAF | 419 | p299.htm | HAL JP202 | Minelaying | Sea off Nymindegab | d190444 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
a062002.htm | Petrina | M J | F/Sgt | RCAF | 419 | p299.htm | HAL JP202 | Minelaying | Sea off Nymindegab | d190444 | b220844 | c062.htm | Nysogn |
a014230.htm | Quinn | J D | P/O | RCAF | 419 | p299.htm | HAL JP202 | Minelaying | Sea off Nymindegab | d190444 | b310844 | c014.htm | Esbjerg |
e777702.htm | Weeks | DFC | Sgt | RCAF | 419 | p299.htm | HAL JP202 | Minelaying | Sea off Nymindegab | d190444 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
1 flyver fra
HAL JP202 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 1 på Nysogn
Kirkegård. 5 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
On 19 April 1944
HAL JP202 crashed into the North Sea on a minelaying
operation to Fakse Bugt (about
here - see
Minelaying areas.) On 22 August 1944 Flight Engineer M. J. Petrina
was washed ashore near the German strongpoint Kryle, Houvig
(here, at
closer range
here). At about 22:00 hours in the same
evening he was buried in Nysogn Churchyard by the German Wehrmacht without
ecclesiastical assistance but attended by 2 Danish policemen - Police Sergeant
K. P. Kristensen and Police Sergeant L. V. Knudsen, both of them from
Ringkøbing. See
No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons *
No. 419 (Moose) Squadron *
419 Squadron RCAF 1941 to 1945
has Crew of
Halifax JP202. Halifax II JP202 VR-T took off from RAF Middleton St. George at 20.37 hrs on 18 APR 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Halifax - Bless 'Em All. 7 airmen. |