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Operation: Rhubarb (6)
Date: 21st August 1943 (Saturday)
Unit: No. 414 Squadron
Type: Mustang I
Serial: AM160
Base: RAF Ashford, Kent (Under canvas!)
Location: Paris suburbs, France
Pilot: F/O. Louis Phillip Theriault J/13595 RCAF Age 24. Killed
REASON FOR LOSS:
414 Squadron were mainly taking part in defensive patrols over the strait and the Channel during the month of August and September 1943. The period was however particularly successful for the unit with some 28 locomotives destroyed, 19 electric pylons, 5 tugs and barges. They also claimed 2 enemy aircraft destroyed with a further 2 as damaged.
During a rhubarb (6) operation over the Paris area during the late afternoon he attacked and shot down a Ju88 during a combat but his an obstruction and crashed.
Above, his grave as visited by his cousin, W/O. William Theriault in 2015.
Burial details:F/O. Louis Phillip Theriault. Reau Communal Cemetery, France. Son of James William and Mary Laura Theriault, of Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Researched and dedicated to the relatives of this crew with thanks to Christopher Clarke, W/O. William Theriault Canadian Armed Forces - cousin of the pilot who contacted us in July 2015.
(1) F/O. Raymond Charles MacQuoid J/5801 414 Squadron - killed 01st April 1943.
(2) F/O. Laurence Aloysius Doherty J/7468 Killed 06th June 1943.
(3) F/O. Frederick Leroy Vaupel J7420 414 Squadron - killed 17th June 1943.
(4) F/O. Louis Phillip Theriault - This page.
(5) F/O. Hugh Douglas Steeves J/7474 414 Squadron - killed 27th March 1943.
(6) Rhubarb - operations when sections of fighters or fighter-bombers, taking full advantage of low cloud and poor visibility, would cross the English Channel and then drop below cloud level to search for opportunity targets such as railway locomotives and rolling stock, aircraft on the ground, enemy troops and vehicles on roads.
KTY 28.07.2015 Grave photo added
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember
them. - Laurence
Binyon
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