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Looking for any further info on AC2 Henry Johnson RAFVR (1165694).

He died based at RAF Dyce, however at the time he was operating a beacon near Cruden Bay (Based on 1- Newspaper article a few days later, 2- Aberdeen/shire incidents register for 1st March 1941)

TNA file details the death, but not specific in locations or role he was doing.

I have been trying to determine where the beacon was, did it mean the area that became a LORAN station later on in the war or was there something else, perhaps a visual one on the cliffs? Not sure what beacon types the RAF had in 1941 - radio or visial?

he died when a German aircraft at 19:45 hrs on 1st March flew in low and dropped 4 x HE bombs into a field, shrapnel and debris from the adjacent field to a farmhouse resulted in debris/shrapnel hitting him on the head in the area beside the farmhouse.