AM 216 SOE Operation CRUPPER XI 1 Golden Eagle
Beskrivelse
Særmelding BBC : "Bare pene piker ansettes"Code : F(FOX) Signal bakke: "C" Signal fly: NA
GEE: NA
EUREKA: NA
CON PAK M HD CRS SPD LAND . MERKNAD
12 11 2 -:- MIA
Squad: RAF 138
F/Lt Ford Frederick John Stirling IV LJ993 NF-M
Out: 23:30 DROP MIA-NC
8/9-11-44 Stirling "M"- F/Lt Frederick John Ford RAFVR - Pilot -144218
- P/O James Roy Tanner RAFVR - Navigator - 183732
- F/Sgt Dennis James Cornish RAFVR - Gunner - 186629
- F/Sgt Brian Francis Frederick Crimes RAFVR - Gunner - 1504994
- P/O Donald Iain Begbie Fisher RAFVR - Flight Eng - 182582
- F/Lt Ernesto Howell DFC RAF - Wireless Op - 144194
- F/O Mostyn William Oliver RAFVR - Air Bomber - 158326
- Peter Deinboll - Norwegian agent - died
- Arne Gjestland - Norwegian agent - died
*) Peter Deinboll, Arne Gjestland forsvant med flyet.
Target Norway. Carrying 2 agents, twelve containers and eleven packages., MISSING !AIR-27-956-6 p7
T/O Tempsford 2330 hrs aircraft lost at sea due to bad weather on Operation CRUPPER 11, Norway
Agents on trip was meant for the Dipford-Frinton operation in SL.
CORNISH Dennis James Flight Sergeant 1866629, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died on Thursday 9th November 1944. Aged 21. Son of Cecil James Cornish and Genevieve Cornish, of Ponders End, Middlesex. Commemorated on RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey. Panel 216.
DEINBOLL Peter Norwegian Agent.
GJESTLAND Arne Norwegian Agent.
FISHER Donald Iain Begbie Pilot Officer 182582, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died on Thursday 9th November 1944. Aged 33. Son of James and Elizabeth Fisher; husband of Jean Neal Fisher, of Glasgow. Commemorated on RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey. Panel 211.
FORD Frederick John Flight Lieutenant 147218, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Pilot. Died on Thursday 9th Novemb er 1944. Aged 35. Son of Frederick and Charlotte Ford, of Walthamstow, Essex; husband of Doris Verdun Ford, of Walthamstow. Commemorated on RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey. Panel 202.
CRIMES Brian Francis Frederick Flight Sergeant 1507997, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died on Thursday 9th November 1944. Aged 23. Son of Robert F. and Kathleen Crimes, of Rotherham, Yorkshire. Commemorated on RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey. Panel 216.
HOWELL, DFC Ernesto Flight Lieutenant 144194, Royal Air Force. Died on Thursday 9th November 1944. Aged 21. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). Commemorated on RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey. Panel 202.
OLIVER Mostyn William Flying Officer 151326, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died on Thursday 9th November 1944. Aged 21. Son of Mrs. D. A. Oliver, of Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire. Commemorated on RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey. Panel 208. See also Whittlesford.
TANNER James Roy Pilot Officer 183732, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died on Thursday 9th November 1944. Aged 23. Son of John Albert Tanner, and of Maria Tanner, of Battersea, London. Commemorated on RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey. Panel 212.
*Tempsford lost two Stirlings on sorties to Norway on the 8th/9th. Pit Off Louis Ouelette RCAF and his No 138 (SD) Sqn crew in LK198 crashed in bad weather over the North Sea en route to Norway on operation Puffin 2, and Fit Lt Frederick Ford and crew in LJ993, carrying two Norwegian agents,
disappeared without trace on operation Crupper 11. However, poor weather conditions failed to stop 16 Stirlings from No 620 Sqn flying supply sorties on the 15th.
Agents by Moonlight:
"There can be little doubt that night the appalling weather conditions, low cloud, icing at low level and thunderstorms, were responsible for the loss, on their outward journey, of two 138 Squadron aircraft and their crews. F/Lt F J Ford, flying Stirling LJ993, vvith two agents, Peter Deinbull and Arne Gjestland, twelve containers and eleven packages on board for CRUPPER 11, a target very roughly 100 km north of Oslo,And W/O L A Oullette, RCAF, flying Stirling LK198 with twelve containers and six packages for PUFFIN 2, very roughly, 25km to the north of Oslo. It is assumed they came down into the sea the names of the two crews appearing on the Runnymead Memorial. It had been a terrible price to pay for the delivery of only 22 containers."Flights of the forgotten:
"The weather was becoming steadily worse and on 8/9 November it created havoc among the operational crews. No 161 Squadron put up seven and No 138 Squadron seventeen aircraft, all to Norway. Only S/L Read of No 161 was able to battle through the foul weather to deliver 22 containers to a 'Bit T DZ. More dangerous was S/L Brogan's situation when lightning struck his No 138 Squadron aircraft, temporarily blinding him. His bomb-aimer had to take over the Controls until his sight recovered; he too aborted and brought his five agents back to base. Two other crews failed to retum, probably victims of the weather conditions; both were from No 138 Squadron;W/O Ouellette in Stirling LK198 and F/L Ford in LJ993. losses for the night; They were not the only Stirling EF234 of No 196 Squadron, flown by F/O Norton, failed to retum from a Dutch operation."Til Sted
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| Tverrvasseter | Se mer |
Fra Base
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| RAF Tempsford | Se mer |
Deltakere
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| F/Lt Frederick John Ford ✝ | Se mer |
| Peter Deinboll Fenrik ✝ | Se mer |
| Arne Gjestland Fenrik ✝ | Se mer |
Fremdrift
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| Short Stirling IV LJ993 NF-M ✬ ✝ | Se mer |
Galleri
Nyttige lenker
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| Dagbok fra gutta i Buvassfaret | Se mer |
| Lost flight Stirling LJ993 | Se mer |
| Lost: Ernesto Howell | Se mer |
| Flyvrak funnet i Nordsjøen | Se mer |
| Loss CRIMES, BRIAN FRANCIS FREDERICK | Se mer |
| Roll of Honour | Se mer |
| Short Stirling Units of World War 2 By Jonathan Falconer | Se mer |
| Ian Herrington SOE - p 136 | Se mer |
| Wikipedia: Peter Deinboll | Se mer |
| Agents by moonlight | Se mer |
| Flights of the forgotten | Se mer |