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You searched for: “1944-06-12

#Name*First NamesTitleRankRAF Equivalent RankService No.BornNationalityRoleAwardsAir ForceCommandUnitDateofIncident *See NoteAircraftTypeSerialCodeVictories (Fighters)BaseTimeMission                        Incident                        FateCommemoratedPhoto (Click to Expand)Referring Database                        Notes                        Links/Archive Reports
1151 AyreA E WSergeantBomber Command61Sqn
1944-05-11LancasterIIILM454QR-ZSkellingthorpe2239Bourg-LeopoldCrashed Melsele {Oost-Valaanderen}KilledRunnymede
1152 AyreRoy EricFlying Officer422095AustraliaRAAF83Sqn RAAF
1944-05-22RAAF Honour Roll
1153 AyresLeonardSergeant1505092Air/GnrRAFVRBomber Command61Sqn
1944-12-06LancasterIME725QR-G RAF Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire 1639Giessen See archive report for further details KilledHanover War Cemetery. Grave 4.J.7 Read Archive Report
1154 AyresL JFlying OfficerRCAFBomber Command427Sqn RCAF
1944-10-30HalifaxIIIMZ903ZL-YLeeming1814KolnCrashed at Manston Kent on return Paradie Archive Database
1155 AyresA AFlying OfficerRCAFBomber Command429Sqn RCAF
1944-01-20HalifaxVLL197AL-LLeeming1612BerlinCrashed at ZeetzeKilledBerlin 1939-1945 War CemeteryParadie Archive Database
1156 AyresK JFlying OfficerBomber Command106Sqn
1944-09-19LancasterIIIPB347ZN-GMetheringham1910RheydtCrashed at ElmptPoW
1157 AyresL RFlight SergeantBomber Command166Sqn
1944-12-24LancasterIPD397AS-VKirmington1450KolnCrashed target areaKilledRheinberg War Cemetery
1158 AyresA W WSergeantBomber Command625Sqn
1944-04-10LancasterIIIND636CF-OKelstern2334AulnoyeCrashed near Pont-de-MetzKilledSt-Pierre Cemetery Amiens
1159 AyresR FPilot OfficerBomber Command626Sqn
1944-05-27LancasterIIIND985UM-W2Wickenby2352AachenCrashed Zingem {Oost-Vlaanderen}KilledCourtrai {St-Jean} Communal Cemetery
1160 AyresASergeantBomber Command640Sqn
1944-03-24HalifaxIIIMZ510C8-QLeconfield1922BerlinKilledReichswald Forest War Cemetery
1161 AyreyEdward StanleyCorporalNZ/40636Born on the 12th May 1919New ZealandPassengerRNZAFFar East2Sqn RNZAF1944-01-17VenturaPV-INZ45205533Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands1445Ferry Flightsee archive report for further brief detailsMissing - believed killedBourail Memorial. Panel 8.
Courtesy Jenifer Lemaire
Son of Samuel and Ann Ayrey, of Morrinsville, Auckland, New Zealand. Worked prior to service as a mechanic for H.F. McConnell.
1162 AytonRFlight SergeantBomber Command10Sqn
1944-07-20HalifaxIIIMZ312ZA-EMelbourne2306BottropCrashed at Wijk-en-Aalburg {Noord-Brabant}PoW
1163 AytonG FFlying Officer51167Fighter151Sqn
1944-07-09MosquitoRangerCrashed at PredannackKilledEast Dereham Cemetery United Kingdom
1164 AytonJames TrevorPilot OfficerNZ/39982Age 24New ZealanderNavigatorRNZAFAllied Expeditionary Air Force487Sqn RNZAF
1944-07-11----RAF Thorney Island, Sussex1Motor vehicle accidentSee archive report for further brief detailsKilledBrookwood Military Cemetery. 8.AA.4

Courtesy AWMM

Also remembered on mothers grave at Kaurihohore Cemetery. Born on the 06th December 1919 at Hikurangi. Educated at the Kauri primary school and the Whangarei High School. Worked as a stores assistant for Whangarei Engineering prior to service. Enlisted at Ohakea on the 24th October 1939. Trained with No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School 17th November 1939. Joined Air Observers School on the 27th July 1940. Observers badge awarded on the 15th November 1940 and promoted to sergeant on the 18th November 1940.

Embarked for Egypt on the 27th December 1940Joined 70 Operational Training Unit on the 04th February 1941 then 55 squadron on the 10th April 1941 flying the Blenheim where he carried out 1 operational sortie. 249 Heavy Transport Wing 11th April 1942. Joined 8 Squadron 24th February 1942 carried out numerous operational sorties. Embarked for England on the 02nd May 1943. Joined 13 Operational Training Unit as either instructor or staff navigatorJoined 487 squadron on the 06th January 1944 carrying out a further 27 operational sorties. Awarded his commission on the 02nd June 1944.

Son of John Cumming Ayton and of Mary Christina Ayton (nee MacKenzie - died 08th April 1941 age 58), of Post Office, Hikurangi, North Auckland, New Zealand. A total of 642 flying hours logged and carried out numerous operational sorties.

1165 AzemaJPrivateFFAFBomber Command347Sqn Free French
1944-12-28HalifaxIIINA174L8-ElvingtonExplodedInjured
1166 BaatsenArnoldus AlbertDutchSOE AgentBomber Command138Sqn (Special)
1942-03-27WhitleyVT4166NF-BTempsford SOE. Operation WATERCRESS/CATARRH, the first of a series of operations involving the dropping of Dutch agents, code named Nordpol Spiel by the British and England Spiel by the Dutch. Claim by Ofw Siegfried Ney 5/NJG2 - Sea North of Petten (Salzhering) 0008. Ofw Ney and his BF Uffw Buhler flying in Bf110 D-2 R4+AN of 5/NJG2 dispatched a 138 Squadron Whitley. Aircraft crashed into sea 0015 at Den Helder, South of Texel about 200 - 500 metres offshore between Petten and Callantsoog. The Whitley (that had dropped a secret agent at Steenwijk) exploded with such force that only moments later the Messerschmidt crashed near Petten with the loss of Ney and his Funker (Radio Operator). (Nachtjagd Combat Archives 1942 - Theo Boiten)KilledLocation of burial not known. Remembered on a War Graves Foundation memorial in The Hague The agent, A A Baatsen (Watercress) parachuted near Steenwijk (Overijssel) some 30 km N of Zwolle and was captured almost immediately. After two-and-a-half years of interrogation, he was executed 7 September 1944 in Mauthausen Concentration Camp. The site of the DZ, in the moorlands north of Steenwijk, was suggested by the Germans and approved by London. London was warned by the Lauwers a captured Dutch SOE Agent transmitting for the Abwehr and leaving out his personal security checks by W/T but was ignored repeatedly. Baatsen was the first SOE Agent to fall into this trap. The German subsequently sent a signal that the mission had been successfully accomplished.
1167 BabaFrank JosephStaff Sergeant334337891921AmericanEngineerUSAAF8th Air Force733rd Bomber Squadron (453rd Bombardment Group (H))1944-08-16B-24 StinkyJ42-110138F8: N+Old Buckenham (Station #144), Norfolk, EnglandDessau (Mission #556), GermanySee Archive report for detailsPoW, Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia, Germany, now Żagań in Poland
1168 BabiackiStanisławKapral NawigSergeantP.705472Born 16 April 1924 Łódź (Age 20 when killed)PolandNavigator
Medal Lotniczy

PAFBomber CommandNo.1662 HCU1944-11-11Handley Page HalifaxllJN967RAF Blyton17:52East Ferry, LincolnshireTook off from Blyton at 17:52 on a Night Navigational and Practice Bombing Exercise. Eight minutes later, after climbing to 3,000 feet, one of the starboard engines caught fire, and the aircraft crashed in flames at East Ferry, 8 miles South-West of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. Buried 27 November 1962. Location : United Kingdom. JewishKilled on Training FlightPAF Memorial, Northolt, Newark-Upon-Trent Cemetery - Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. Section C Grave 316

Archiwum Polish Database

1169 BaccusDonald A Lt ColonelO-406504USAPilotUSAAF356th Fighter Group1944-05-13P-47 Thunderbolt0.5 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1170 BaccusDonald A Lt ColonelO-406504USAPilotUSAAF356th Fighter Group1944-11-26P-51 Mustang2 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1171 BaccusDonald A MajorO-406504USAPilotUSAAF356th Fighter Group359th Fighter Squadron
1943-11-29P-47 Thunderbolt. (P-51 Mustang from Nov 1944)1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1172 BaccusDonald A MajorO-406504USAPilotUSAAF356th Fighter Group359th Fighter Squadron
1944-01-11P-47 Thunderbolt. (P-51 Mustang from Nov 1944)0.5 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1173 BaccusDonald A Lt ColonelO-406504USAPilotUSAAF356th Fighter Group359th Fighter Squadron
1944-12-25P-47 Thunderbolt. (P-51 Mustang from Nov 1944)1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1174 BaccusDonald A Lt ColonelO-406504USAPilotUSAAF356th Fighter Group359th Fighter Squadron
1944-12-25P-47 Thunderbolt. (P-51 Mustang from Nov 1944)5Source: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1175 BachantJoseph Ferdinand JacquesSergeantR164918CanadianAir Gunner (Rear)RCAFBomber Command428 (Ghost) Sqn RCAF
1944-11-02LancasterXKB782NA:HMiddleton St George16:16DusseldorfSee Archive report for detailsKilledReichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 1 Row F Grave 10Paradie Archive Database
1176 BachardJ GWarrant Officer Class 1RCAFBomber Command419Sqn RCAF
1944-02-12HalifaxIIHR910VR-RMiddleton St George1806GardeningKilledRunnymede Paradie Archive Database
1177 BacheKLieutenantPilotRNoAFFighter331Sqn Norwegian
1944-05-07SpitfireIXMK182Ramrod 843Exploded over Moorseele
1178 BacheD FSergeantBomber Command622Sqn
1944-01-20LancasterIR5483GI-DMidlenhallBerlinKilledBerlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
1179 BachelorA ESergeantBomber Command576Sqn
1944-05-24LancasterILM120UL-T2Elsham Wolds2350AachenCrashed Berescheid KilledRheinberg War Cemetery
1180 BackhouseESergeantBomber Command115Sqn
1944-08-09LancasterIHK579A4-BWitchford610le HavreCrashed target areaEvader
1181 BackhouseD AFlight LieutenantPilotFighter197Sqn
1944-08-12TyphoonIbDN274SAbandoned near FalaisePoW
1182 BackhouseJ WFlying OfficerFighter219Sqn
1944-09-17MosquitoNF30MM710Support Crash landed at Amiens
1183 BacklerHSergeantRCAFBomber Command576Sqn
1944-08-18LancasterIIILM439UL-E2Elsham Wolds1924la NieppeKilledCalais Canadian War Cemetery Paradie Archive Database
1184 BaconDouglas RichardFlight SergeantR/190691Age 21CanadianAir GunnerGuinee Pig Club

RCAFBomber Command149Sqn (East India)
1944-07-05StirlingIIILJ477OJ-MRAF Methwold, Norfolk2243SOECrashed at Thorney Island Sussex on returnSeriously InjuredParadie Archive DatabaseTreated at East Grinstead Hospital with burns to face and hands. Husband of Ruth L. Bacon (died 2019, age 95) of Milton, Ontario, Canada. Passed away at the Milton District Hospital on Wednesday 19th November 2008 age 85 following a courageous battle with cancer.
1185 BaconR ASergeantBomber Command100Sqn
1944-04-22LancasterILL887HW-HGrimsby2246DusseldorfPoW
1186 BaconDonovan JohnFlight Lieutenant132592UKPilotDFC
Bomber Command49Sqn
1944-04-11LancasterILL899EA-PFiskerton2031AachenShot down by a night fighter of Stab IV./NJG 1, crashed Hauxbroek {Antwerpen}KilledSCHOONSELHOF CEMETERY IVa. C. 23. BelgiumAccident reportAttacker
1187 BaconD AFlying OfficerBomber Command50Sqn
1944-05-21LancasterIME797VN-JSkellingthorpe2247DuisburgCrashed VorstKilledReichswald Forest War Cemetery
1188 BaconH WPilot OfficerBomber Command7Sqn
1944-01-14LancasterIIIJB398NG-LOakington1659BraunschweigCrashed at TorfhausPoW
1189 BaconDavid Bruce ErnstFlight Sergeant434190AustraliaRAAF18Sqn RAAF
1944-09-15RAAF Honour Roll
1190 BadellC FFlight LieutenantDFC

Bomber Command83Sqn
1944-08-14LancasterIIIND854OL-FConingsby1728BrestKilledRunnymede
1191 BadgerVictor JohnSergeant W/Op. Air Gunner1581501RAFVRBomber Command166Sqn
1944-07-25LancasterIIILM386AS-VRAF Kirmington, Lincolnshire2125StuttgartCrashed near Aubigny {Yonne}KilledTaingy Communal Cemetery. Collective Grave 2-6. Read Archive Report
1192 BadgerNeil ThomsonFlight Lieutenant407161AustraliaRAAFAttached 528 Squadron Headquarters North Western Area USAAF1944-05-08RAAF Honour Roll
1193 BadgeryDavid GeorgeFlight Sergeant426772AustraliaRAAF226Sqn RAF
1944-06-19RAAF Honour Roll
1194 BadgleyJ CFlying OfficerRCAFBomber Command434Sqn RCAF
1944-11-01HalifaxIIINR114WL-UCroft1707OberhausenKilledReichswald Forest War CemeteryParadie Archive Database
1195 BadkinR WSergeantPilotFighter130Sqn
1944-05-21SpitfireVbBM335Ramrod 905Crashed near PeronnePoW
1196 BadmanRoy Francis CrossleyFlight Sergeant420824AustraliaRAAF25Sqn RAAF
1944-04-25RAAF Honour Roll
1197 BadowskiZygmuntStarszy Sierzant PilotFlight SergeantP.793747Born 8 November 1908 Warszawa (Age 35 when killed)PolandPilotMedal Lotniczy (x2)

PAFBomber Command300Sqn (Polish)
1944-06-24Avro LancasterIIIEE124BH-MRAF Faldingworth16:12Les HayonsTook off from Faldingworth 16.12 24 June 1944 on an Operation to attack flying bomb site at Les Hayons, Belgium. Aircraft damaged by anti-aircraft fire on it's homward journey and flew on two engines across the North Sea, but crashed between Linwood and Lissington, South of Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. Location : United Kingdom. Killed in Action, on Operational Flight PAF Memorial, Northolt, Newark-Upon-Trent Cemetery - Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. War Graves Plot Sec K Grave 321

Archiwum Polish Database
1198 BaerJohn W CaptainO-025684USAPilotUSAAF368th Fighter Group396th Fighter Squadron1944-12-18P-47 Thunderbolt2 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1199 BaerJohn W CaptainO-025684USAPilotUSAAF368th Fighter Group396th Fighter Squadron1944-12-23P-47 Thunderbolt1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1200 BafficoPAdjutantFFAFBomber Command347Sqn Free French
1944-10-28HalifaxIIINA512L8-Elvington1342Koln

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