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23-12-2007, 02:43 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | George York RAAF Kyt, Have I asked you about this before? George York was a friend of my old MD. Do you have any info on this flight? (Chorley?) I am really trying to get a photo of his headstone (and the others if possible, so I need to know what other flyers were on the aircraft. Gen has been trying however it is difficult for his contact to get to Rheinberg. YOUNG, PHILIP EDWARD Flight Lieutenant 422825 102sq RAF 13/08/1944 30 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Coll. grave 8. E. 7-11. RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal GORDON, JOHN GRIEVE Pilot Officer 423711 102sq RAF 13/08/1944 32 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Coll. grave 8. E. 7-11. RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal HARVEY, ALFRED HENRY Pilot Officer 423726 102sq RAF 13/08/1944 30 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Coll. grave 8. E. 7-11. RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal YORK, GEORGE Pilot Officer 428858 102sq RAF 13/08/1944 29 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Coll. grave 8. E. 7-11. RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 23-12-2007 at 02:48 AM. |
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23-12-2007, 10:30 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Halifax MZ647 DY-R Mission tp Russelsheim Cause of loss and crashsite not established. F/L P E Young RAAF CWGC :: Casualty Details F/O K L Walker CWGC :: Casualty Details Sgt J C Doughty CWGC :: Casualty Details Sgt R R H Osborne CWGC :: Casualty Details F/S G York RAAF CWGC :: Casualty Details Sgt J V Finney RAAF CWGC :: Casualty Details F/S J G Gordon RAAF CWGC :: Casualty Details F/S A H Harvey RAAF CWGC :: Casualty Details 297 aircraft - 191 Lancasters, 96 Halifaxes, 10 Mosquitos - to Rüsselsheim. 13 Lancasters and 7 Halifaxes lost, 6.7 per cent of the force. The target for this raid was the Opel motor factory and normal Pathfinder marking methods were used. The motor factory was only slightly damaged; the local report states that the tyre and dispatch departments and the powerhouse were hit but most of the bombs fell in open countryside south of the target. There appears to be a couple of people on the web who are trying to establish exactly how and where this aircraft was lost but without results so far
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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23-12-2007, 10:33 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | There is a photograph of their grave and single headstone with all their names inscribed on page 4 of Young's service file: http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imag...83693&I=1&SE=1
__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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23-12-2007, 11:09 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Quote:
Thanks mate, very detailed. Where does Finney come into this? Cheers Geoff
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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23-12-2007, 11:15 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Oops sorry Spidge. There were two J V Finneys on the CWGC (both killed in Aug 1944) and I linked the wrong one. This is the correct one, and he was RAF not RAAF: Jack Vernon Finney CWGC :: Casualty Details
__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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23-12-2007, 11:32 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Quote:
I thought my research was up the spout! 
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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