Murdered ages 21 on 21st of July 1944 Young man from Louisa Ann Barson, from Ilford, Essex
John Edward Gilbertson, RNZAF NZ41894 – Airplane pilot. Martin John Byrne, RNZAF NZ404529 – Observer. Ronald Patrick Callaghan, RNZAF NZ411739 – Cordless User. Alan Walter Rutherford, RNZAF NZ404572 – Front Gunner. William Arthur Titcomb, RAFVR 1291758 – Butt Gunner.
Wellington Mk.III Cock sucking.661 AA-X are shot off by the a German Ju 88 nights-combatant at hours towards Ijsselmeer, near Amsterdam, while on its means household following the Hamburg raid. The Ju 88 crew out of a couple was Lieutenant Wilfgang Kuthe and you will their gunner, Unteroffizier Helmut Bonk.
Just Callahan new W/op, and Rutherford this new nostrils gunner, live the crash and you will floated free, backed by the existence vests. They certainly were after saved and you will taken to a beneficial POW camp.
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New regulators of your own chief and you may navigator was basically recovered on the destroy and you may hidden from inside the Amsterdam. The back gunner’s looks floated free and you may is retrieved afterwards particular distance in the freeze site and hidden during the Harderwijk.
It’s thought possible that BF.396 has been introduced down by Oblt.
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