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AM 357 FLANK 9 SLIPP 2 FIRECREST FLATDALSTØL – 3. mars 1945
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Særmelding BBC : "Lier er bratt"
Code : JON Signal bakke: W Signal fly: ?
CON PAK M HD CRS SPD LAND . MERKNAD
18 3 500 360 145 06:25 OF/1CF
FS/
Squad: RAF 299
1. F/O T HOGG Thomas Lind Stirling IV EF323 5G-F
2. F/O Hull Edward C Stirling IV LJ996 X9-N SOE
Out: 22:15/20:51 - DROP 05:54 /NC
- 1
- J28013 F/O Hogg Thomas Lind Pilot
- AUS.419391, W/O MOUSER T
- AUS.415170, F/O McALLISTER F M
- AUS.419766, F/SGT PURCELL A H
- 115149, F/LT BUCKLER J W
- 1804512. SGT JUDD D C
- 2
- 139978 F/O Hull Edward C Pilot
- 1585828 W/O David Kenneth Jordan
- 1323564 F/Sgt Bernard William Harris
- 1491043 F/Sgt Ronald Rome
- 1809463 W/O AlexanderThomas Wainwright
- 1892270 F/Sgt John Michael Murray
- SOE Flank 9. Norway. Successful. 18 Containers and 3 Packages on DZ at 60.39 N 08.55 E, using map reading and ground signals. Clear over the target. Some H/F seen on crossing coast in. Trip satisfactory.
- 2/3.3.45 Stirling Mk IV 299 Sqdn RAF F/0 Edward George Hull RAFVR - Pilot - died Failed to return Irom mission to LJ996 5G-W Norway
Carl Petersen Luftkrig 1939-1945
F/O Hull Edward C Pilot
WO David Kenneth Jordan RAFVR - died
F/Sgt Bernard William Harris RAFVR - died
F/Sgt Ronald Rome RAFVR - died
WO Alexander Thomas Wainwright RAFVR - died
F/Sgt John Michael Murray RAFVR - died
All crew commemorated on Runnymede Memorial, UK
**Flying Officer Hogg R C A F arrived over 'Flank 9', an isolated spot near Flatdalsvegen without trouble. With the DZ clear, the signal ' W was quickly picked up and wasting no time, the cargo was dropped from 500 feet onto a number of well-placed and easily identified lights. Within eight minutes of their arrival, they were on their way home. The only incident was when a container dropped when the bomb doors were opened, but the parachute failed to open.
The squadron notched up another loss on this operation.
There is scant information on the fate of F /O Edward Hull and crew, the Squadron O R B records; Norway, 'Missing, No News'. The crew were never found, three wives become widows and six families would mourn the loss of a son or brother. The Stirling seen engaged by flak by F / L t Harris R N Z A F could be the crew of F /O Hull. Their planned route passed just a few miles north of the location where a Stirling was seen in trouble over the Skagerrak Straits.
** #Se "Smith, Steve C "Dropping Hope From The Sky No. 299...."
(Thomas Lind Hogg: Hogg, Thomas Lind, Nov. 5, 1915--Feb. 13, 2012, )
Steder
Tittel | Lenke |
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| Sendt fra: RAF Shepherds Grove airfield | Se mer |
| 54 Flatdalen | Se mer |
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Tittel | Lenke |
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| Carl Petersen Luftkrig 1939-1945 | Se mer |
| WO Hull | Se mer |
| Smith, Steve C "Dropping Hope From The Sky No. 299 Squadron Operations 1944-46" | Se mer |