Lancaster III PB 415 NG-180 KC-S 5 Group Crashed Rheinweiler ,Germany October 7,1944 at 17: 13 pm Pilot: Sq/Ldr Drue Rothwell Cullen Wyness, aged: 24 - Pilot ,buried Choloy, France Nav F/Lt Ronald Henry Williams ,aged: 22 buried Dürnbach Cemetery, Germany R/O Operator/Air Gunner Bruce James Hosie RNZAFaged :21 buried Choloy,France F/O Bombardier Herbert A. Walter Honig , aged : 22 buried Dürnbach , Germany F/E Gunner : F/S Thomas James Hurdiss, aged: 23 Mid Upper Gunner : F/S Thomas Horrocks aged :21 Rear Gunner : F/0 George Edward Cansell, aged: 21 Last 3 are MIA commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. Capture & Murder of Sq/Ldr Wyness & Crew Sq/ldr Attended Stretford Grammar School and Hutton School near Preston.Member of R.U.F.C.Married Miss Ruth Siddle in July 1941, the daugh
In the late afternoon of October 7, 1944 in late evening Saturday, the district leader of the NSDAP of Müllheim and Lörrach, Hugo Grüner, shot in Rheinweiler 3 Km South of Bad Bellingen four crew members of a British Lancaster bomber. This aircraft was attacking the Kembs Barrage (Stauwehr Märkt) and was hit by the German AA units which forced him to make an emergency landing near village of Rheinweiler . From a total of seven crew members four of them remained on the life raft while the other three elected to swim to Alsace (France ) riverbank . Legally legitimized the killing of downed or forced landed Allies crews towards the end of the second World War, so-called aviation murder, is in 225 cases proven, the total number of fatalities is estimated to have been 350. This was state legitimized, highest state organs had encouraged. It was "not the job of the policeto interfere in the lynch of Allied aircrew members by German nationals Heinrich Himmle
The Kembs Raid 7 October 1944 Target : Kembs Barrage Germany also refered as Maerkt Stauwehr Weather : 6 Oct at 3000 feet clear patch over target Max Effort Sqd 617 : 13 Lancasters equipped with "Tollboys " Max Effort Escort 133 Wng 34 P-51 III Sqd 129 Escort High Force Sqd 315 Escort Low Force Sqd 306 AA Silence Recon: Sqd 627 Musquito IV ====================================================== 617 SQD RAF Woodhall Spa Low Force Pilots T/O LND Bombing Results EE 146 "D" W/Cdr J.B.Tait ( Ldr ) 13:20 19:20 Bomb landed 10 yards short of Target LM 492 "W" Sq /Ldr J.V.Cockshott 13:07 19:56 Bomb fell on west bank of Rhine river DV391 "O" F/O P.H.Martin 13:1
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