Recherche de France-Crashes 39-45

Date	Nation	Département	Unité	-	Mission
Fiche France-Crashes 39-45 modifiée le 28-07-2024
17-09-1943	Angleterre/Common.	Calvados	419 Sq RCAF Moose		Modane (It) installations ferroviaires

Localisation	S-E de Lisieux (sous réserve)
Circonstances	Attaqué par un chasseur de nuit (Lt Detlef Grossfuss du 2./JG2) au vol retour – moteurs en feu – abandon de l’appareil par l’équipage à 02h25 le 17
Commentaires	Décollage 19h04 le 16 de Middleton St-George, Durham UK
Sources **	J-L Maillet (sources: lostbombers / rafcommands.com / conscript-heroes / airforce.ca/awards) / Ancestry.fr (source: Quest PoW) / asn.flightsafety.org
Historique	17/10/2011=Création - 28/07/2024=Modif depart,local/Ajout rapp PoW MitA,comm PoW,comm av

Grade	Prenom	Nom	Poste	Corps	Etat	Commentaires
F/Lt	Arthur Noel	Quaile	Pil	RAF	Prisonnier	108526 - Né le 19/12/1915 - Prion, Denbigh, North Wales UK - Blessé à l'épaule à la sortie de l'avion - Capturé le 17/09/1943 - Pow No 2540 - Prison de Lisieux 14/Stalag Luft III Sagan (01/10/43)/Marlag-Milag Tarmstedt (06/02/45-10/04/45)/Lübeck (24/04/45)
Sgt	Ernest Edward	Bowden	2ePil	RCAF	Prisonnier	R/115662 - Né le 19/01/1921 - Capturé le 18/09/1943 près de Lisieux 14 - Pow No 523 - Dulag Luft Oberursel (19/09/43)/Stalag Luft VI Heydekrug (04/10/43)/Stalag Luft IV Gross Tychow (19/07/44)/Stalag XI-B Fallingbostel (01/05/45-07/03/45)
Sgt	Leonard Frank	Martin	Mec	RCAF	En fuite	R/80349 – retour UK le 17 janvier 1944 - Rapport WO 208/3318/1704
P/O	Lawrence Eugene	Aspinall	Nav	RCAF	Prisonnier	J/14507 - Né le 05/09/1920 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Capturé le 28/09/1943 à 30 Km S-E de Tours (37) - Pow No 1356 – Prison de Châteauroux (28/09/43)/Prison de Fresnes (08/10/43)/Dulag Luft Oberursel (01/11/43)/Stalag Luft I Barth (13/11/43)
P/O	George Thomas	Graham	Bomb	RCAF	En fuite	J/14729 - DFC - Se pose au SE de Lisieux (14) - Fuite par Pyrénées/Espagne/Gibraltar - Rapport WO 208/3316/1511
F/Sgt	Thomas John	Bright	Rad/M	RAF	En fuite	1270593 - Fuite par Pyrénées/Espagne/Gibraltar - Rapport WO 208/3319/1840
F/O	Harry Frederick Ernest	Smith	MitS	RCAF	En fuite	J/14626 - Filière Marie-Claire (query) - Rapport WO 208/3317/1636
F/Lt	Bennett Ley	Kenyon	MitA	RAF	Prisonnier	112175 - DFC - Né le 28/05/1913 - London UK - Capturé le 27/09/1943 vers Dax (40) - Pow No 3135 - Prison de Biarritz 64 (07/09/43)/Prison de Fresnes 94 (04/10/43)/Dulag Luft Oberursel/Stalag Luft III Sagan (11/43)/Marlag-Milag Tarmstedt (05/02/45-10/04/45)

** Les sources sont citées chronologiquement en fonction des nouvelles informations reçues ou trouvées

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Compléments (rapports - helpers - récits - liens - photos)

Rapport PoW F/Lt Kenyon: - ( Attempted escape before initial capture. Shot down near Leiseux N France. Made my way on foot and by train to south of France. Captured on train near Dax by Gestapo. Treatment ruthless. Not in touch with organisation. Travelled alone. Rest of crew safe, physically fit.Original) - (Source : Questionnaire PoW – Arch UK via Ancestry – Traduction Google):
Tentative d'évasion avant capture initiale. Abattu près de Lisieux, dans le nord de la France. J'ai réussi à rejoindre le sud de la France à pied et en train. Capturé dans un train près de Dax par la Gestapo. Traitement impitoyable. Pas de contact avec l'organisation. J'ai voyagé seul. Le reste de l'équipage est sain et sauf, en bonne forme physique.

Trouvé sur sur « airforce.ca/awards » :
Public Record Office WO 208/3316 has MI.9 report based on interview of 29 October 1943. [le rapport du P/O George Thomas Graham ?]
« I was a member of the crew of a Halifax bomber which took off from Middleton St.George at 1845 hours on 16 September 1943 to bomb the railway junction at Modane. We bombed our target and on the homeward journey we were attacked within sight of the French coast by a night fighter. Both port engines caught fire; we had orders to bale out.
I came down at 0225 hours on 17 September in an open field by a river, southeast of Lisieux. I buried my kit in the the neighbourhood and started to walk in a southwesterly direction. I did not speak to anyone until the evening of 19 September. At ten kilometres from Camembert (North-West Europe 1:250,000, Sheet 7 and 29, south of Lisieux) I saw some people milking cows. I approached these and after some discussion an old man took me to his house and his wife gave me food and milk.
After they had convinced themselves of my bone fides, the old man’s son-in-law took me to a hayloft and told me that he would return at 0600 hours. He duly returned and I was taken to another barn, where I stayed until 1330 hours (20 September). He turned up again with a bicycle for me, and took me to another hiding place about eight kilometres away, and about four kilometres from Camembert. He left me and returned at about 1730 hours with a girl and some wine and food. She gave me to understand that her husband and talk English and that they would return. They turned up at 2000 hours, bringing an old lady with them, and took me to the old lady’s house. Here I was given civilian clothes and food, and taken to an adjoining home for the night. The next morning I was taken in a covered cart to Vimoutieres (North-West Europe 1:250,000, Sheet 7, twenty kilometres south of Lisieux), and from here by bus to Lisieux. I stayed in a house here until 25 September while the owner was trying to get into contact with an organisation. After this date my journey was arranged for me. »
Leonard Frank Martin citation sur « airforce.ca/awards »:
Sergeant Martin took part in 23 attacks on the enemy prior to being reported missing on the night of the 16th September 1943. His aircraft was shot down by a night fighter on that night and Sergeant Martin landed by parachute in Northern France. He proceeded to walk home as detailed in M.I.9/S/P.G.(-)1704, arriving at on 17th January 1944. I consider that this Non-Commissioned Officer's gallantry while operating with this squadron and the persistence and ingenuity shown by him while making his escape fully merits the immediate award of the Distinguished Flying Medal.