MACKENZIE, STANLEY HENRY Rank: Flying Officer Trade: Nav. Service No: 422418 Date of Death: 22/11/1943 Age: 23 Regiment/Service: Royal New Zealand Air Force 75 (R.A.F.) Sqdn Grave Reference: 26. A. 2. Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of Roderick Stanley and Mary Ann Mackenzie, of Whangarei, Auckland, New Zealand.http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2040052/MACKENZIE,%20STANLEY%20HENRY
Details of the above loss.... 22-23 November 1943 75 Squadron Stirling III EF148. AA-R Op. Berlin. Took off from Mepal at 1713 hours. Crashed at Rulle, 7 km north north east of Osnabruck. Crew. F/S. J C. Turner RNZAF + Sgt. G J. Blackman + F/O. S H. Mackenzie RNZAF + F/O. W G S. Pagett + F/S. J L. Cowie RNZAF + Sgt. R.McLeod More + Sgt. T. McGloin + Source - RAF Bomber Command losses Vol.4 - W R. Chorley. Note During the course of 1943, RAF Bomber Command visited Berlin on 54 occasions. 7,392 aircraft were dispatched with 6,400 attacking the target (Industry, Transport, Oil) . 390 aircraft were missing.
