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Originally Posted by spidge  Azores
JOHNSON, JAMES GEOFFREY
Pilot Officer
408252
220sq
4/12/1943
20
Royal Australian Air Force
Australian
Row A. Grave 6.
LAJES WAR CEMETERY
Azores
Terceira-Praia
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Geoff,
I can't actually put Johnson on this aircraft, don't have a crew list, but the date matches, might give you a lead.
When the time came for a major service of 220 Squadrons Fortresses, every 800 hours, they were ferried to Thornaby. F/O. Desmond E. Morris lifted Fortress FK206 'K' off the planked runway at Lagens at 03:26 hrs in the early morning of 4 December 1943. Thirty seconds later the Fortress plunged into the Atlantic with the loss of all on board.
The official likely cause was loss of control following the change from visual flight to instruments on a very black night. The bodies of three crew members were recovered - two Canadians and one Australian - to be buried in the civil cemetery at Angra and later moved to the Lajes War Cemetery.
Extract from 'Unsung Sentinels' - R. Stitt.
Regards
Peter