Hello,
Luftwaffe claim: 2/3 September, 1942.
Ofw Bruno Eikmeier.
2.9.42 - 9./NJG 4 - Wellington - 8km E St Just - 0500 - West - 1st.
See:
Luftwaffe Aces Biographies and Victory Claims - Vol.1 A-F.
Mathews, Andrew Johannes & John Foreman.
Walton-on-Thames:Red Kite,2014.
p.275.
2/3 Sep 1942
12 Sqn
Wellington II Z8529:PH-U
Op: Karlsruhe
T/o 2252 Binbrook. Those who died are buried in The French National Cemetery at Marissel, E of Beauvais. Sgt Logan came from Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia.
AUS403299 F/Sgt (Capt./Pilot) Colin Albert ALT RAAF - POW - No.27027
1377323 Sgt (Nav.) William Burman HOLLAND RAFVR - POW - No.27002
778687 Sgt (Bomb Aimer) John Innes Montgomery LOGAN RAFVR +
AUS403197 F/Sgt (W.Op./Air Gnr.) Francis Edward MONCKTON RAAF +
1355385 Sgt (Rear Gnr.) John Joseph FOLEY RAFVR - POW - No.27036
See: BCL3/Chorley/p.202.
Brief account by pilot, F/Sgt Colin Alt:
Returning from a raid on Karlsruhe on the third anniversary of the war when a Jerry nightfighter attacked our old Wimpy II and forced us into the deck around Saint Juste in Northern France. W/01 Frank Monckton and Bombadier Jim Logan, Rhodesia, killed. The rest of us were captured after a six-day attempt to get back to civilisation.
See:
Stories of the RAAF POWS of Lamsdorf.
Holliday, J E (Ed.) & D A Radke.
Holland Park:Lamsdorf RAAF POWS Association,1992.
p.17.
NB. Later on, in the abovementioned ref (pp.39-41), Colin Alt gives a detailed account of events.
See:
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1252699 - download - see: p.192 of 347.
and ...
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/Sear...arcode=1059083 - see: pp.15-20 of 74.
Col.