Re: RAF-Bomber crash Photo
Hello,
Tuesday-Wednesday 19-20 November 1940
78 Squadron
Whitley V T4156 EY-L
Op:Ruhland Oil Refinery
T/o 1730 Dishforth and set course for an oil refinery at Ruhland (Brandenburg). Hit by flak and crashed 2353 at Domersleben (Sachsen-Anhalt), WSW from the centre of Magdeburg. The two officers had trained pre-war with the RAF(VR) and were commissioned on 29 June and 28 July 1940 respectively. Subsequently, Cawkwell received a mid (Gazetted 31 January 1947).
P/O R E H George - PoW
Sgt J W Knight - PoW
P/O R C Mordaunt - PoW
Sgt S Cawkwell - PoW
Sgt J Wilkinson - PoW
See:
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Vol.1 1939-40.
Chorley,W R.
Hersham:Classic Publications,2013 (2nd.Rev.ed.)
p.242
NB. Whitley V T4156 is identified as, EY-L in BCL1(1st.ed.)/112. In A-B's The Whitley File/Roberts(Comp.),1986.p.69, T4156 is identified as, EY-O!
Col.
Last edited by Col Bruggy; 5th February 2018 at 23:13.
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