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Originally Posted by Russell
Hi Alex
31 August 44
55 Sqn FW459 shot down near Faenza. pilot POW.
Lt B J Marais P POW
Flg Off R.A.Pitts N KiA b Faenza;
Flt Sgt C.W. Stogdale; WOP KiA b Faenza
Sgt R.E. Ives AG KiA b Faenza .
took off 0310 approx on morning of 31 August, shot down by Flak, rest of formation returned by 0615.
2/Lt D M Cameron was a navigator lost on 2 September in FW482 on a daylight recce of the north Adriatic,
Send me a PM and I can go through all the others on your list.
Cheers
Russell
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Hello Russell,
Re FW459 and FW482
FW459 - 55 Sqn - Mia Po Valley on night interdiction mission 1st September, 44.
Cameron was navigator in this a/c .
Marais - pow was not in this a/c.
FW482 - 15 SAAF - 55 - 454 RAAF was lost on the 6th May, 44.
Marais - was in fact BAIN-MARAIS, C.T - LT - 103726V - SAAF.
He was not a pow .
He was in a/c JT827, a PV-1 Ventura of 17 Sqn SAAF which was mia on a shipping sweep off the Italian coast on the 1st September, 44.
Also in the crew were -
F/O W.L.Thacker - 131160 - RAFVR.
WO1 - G. J. Terblanche - 313048V - SAAF.
WO1 - W.F. Van Der Walt - 580628V - SAAF.
Sgt. M.T. Bird - 1583189 - RAFVR
All aboard were killed.
Alex