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Archive Report: Allied Forces

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488 Squadron Crest
11/12.03.1945 No. 488 Squadron Mosquito NF.XXX. MT484 P/O. Thomas A. Mallon

Operation: Patrol

Date: 11/12th March 1945 (Sunday/Monday)

Unit: No. 488 Squadron

Type: Mosquito NF.XXX

Serial: MT484

Code: ME-?

Base: Gilze Rijen Airfield Holland

Location: B77 - Gilze Rijen 2.5 km from runway

Pilot: P/O. Thomas Alexander Mallon NZ/415348 RNZAF Age 30. Killed

Nav: P/O. George Herbert Brock NZ/429138 RNZAF Age 22. Killed

REASON FOR LOSS:

Taking of at 04:28 hrs but failed to clear a barn 1.5 miles from the runway, crashed and burnt out amongst trees further on.

Sadly the family of P/O. Mallon also lost his brother earlier in the war, flying a Blenheim IV T2036 PZ-K on 08th October 1940.

Burial details:

Initially the crew were buried at Princeenhage, Breda, but reinterred at Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery after the end of the war.

P/O. Thomas Alexander Mallon. Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery. Grave 4.A.7. Son of Alexander and Dora Mallon (née Rogers), of New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand. 1175 hours log book recorded hours - 265 solo on Mosquito - thought to be his 37th operation.

P/O. George Herbert Brock. Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery. Grave 4.A.8. Son of George Alfred and Amy L. S. Brock, of Palmerston North, Wellington, New Zealand. 499 hours log book recorded hours - thought to be his 37th operation.

Researched by Michel Beckers for Aircrew Remembered - December 2015. Grave photo, documents and that of the pilot courtesy Vic Jay and Robert McAllister.

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Acknowledgements
Sources used by us in compiling Archive Reports include: Bill Chorley - 'Bomber Command Losses Vols. 1-9, plus ongoing revisions', Dr. Theo E.W. Boiten and Mr. Roderick J. Mackenzie - 'Nightfighter War Diaries Vols. 1 and 2', Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt - 'Bomber Command War Diaries', Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Tom Kracker - Kracker Luftwaffe Archives, Michel Beckers, Major Fred Paradie (RCAF) and Captain François Dutil (RCAF) - Paradie Archive (on this site), Jean Schadskaje, Major Jack O'Connor USAF (Retd.), Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Waldemar Wójcik and Józef Zieliński - 'Ku Czci Połeglyçh Lotnikow 1939-1945', Andrew Mielnik: Archiwum - Polish Air Force Archive (on this site), Anna Krzystek, Tadeusz Krzystek - 'Polskie Siły Powietrzne w Wielkiej Brytanii', Franek Grabowski, Polish graves: https://niebieskaeskadra.pl/, PoW Museum Żagań, Norman L.R. Franks 'Fighter Command Losses', Stan D. Bishop, John A. Hey MBE, Gerrie Franken and Maco Cillessen - Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces, Vols 1-6, Dr. Theo E.W. Boiton - Nachtjagd Combat Archives, Vols 1-13. Aircrew Remembered Databases and our own archives. We are grateful for the support and encouragement of CWGC, UK Imperial War Museum, Australian War Memorial, Australian National Archives, New Zealand National Archives, UK National Archives and Fold3 and countless dedicated friends and researchers across the world.
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