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To follow on from Owen's post above......
17-18 September 1941.
75 Squadron
Wellington IC X9834 AA-
Op: Karlsruhe.
Crew.
Sgt. W B M. Smyth +
P/O. W J S. Smith pow
P/O. K E A. Savage +
Sgt. J W. Reid pow
Sgt. H C. McL Haselden RNZAF +
Sgt. A H. Heard pow.
Took off Feltwell. Crash-landed, on fire, at Holsthum on the River Prum, 12 km SSW of Bitburg, Germany. Sgt. Reid was shot while trying to escape from Lamsdorf on 29 December 1941. He is buried in Cracow Military Cemetery, Poland; those who were killed in the crash are buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery.
'Bomber Command Losses' Vol.2. W R. Chorley.
17-18 September 1941.
Op. Karlsruhe.
38 Wellingtons; claimed large fires in the city centre. 1 aircraft lost.
'Bomber Command War Diaries' Middlebrook - Everitt.
Just had a look at my copy of 'Footprints On the Sands of Time' RAF Bomber Command Prisoners Of War In Germany 1939 - 1945 - Oliver Clutton-Brock. The entry for Sgt. Reid states "Killed 29/12/41 removing fence panels for heating"
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On weald of Kent I watched once more
Again I heard that grumbling roar
Of fighter planes; yet none were near
And all around the sky was clear
Borne on the wind a whisper came
'Though men grow old, they stay the same'
And then I knew, unseen to eye
The ageless Few were sweeping by
Last edited by Peter Clare; 26-04-2008 at 03:22 PM.
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