The Heavy Bomber Offensive of WWII (Visiting the Fallen) by Martin Bowman

The Heavy Bomber Offensive of WWII (Visiting the Fallen) by Martin Bowman

Author:Martin Bowman [Bowman, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: HISTORY / Military / Aviation
ISBN: 9781473861138
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2015-05-30T16:00:00+00:00


Endnotes Chapter 8

46 Flight Lieutenant Robert Fenwick Owen DFC. The accident occurred on 22 December 1941.

47 Halifax II W1048 which was damaged by flak and its pilot, Pilot Officer Donald P. McIntyre, crash-landed it on the frozen surface of Lake Hoklingen. All the crew survived and McIntyre and four others evaded capture. One man was captured and taken into captivity. The Halifax sank gently. In 1973W1048 was salvaged from the bed of the lake and, after restoration by airmen at RAG Wyton, was placed on public display in the RAF Museum at Hendon. McIntyre was killed in the crash of a Halifax VII on 13 February 1947.

48 Wing Commander D. C. T. ‘Don’ Bennett was awarded the DSO for courage, initiative and devotion to duty when, after being shot down during the attack on the Tirpitz on 27 April 1942 he and his second pilot, Sergeant N. Walmsley escaped to Sweden. It was soon after his return that Bennett became associated with the new Path Finder Force. AVM Donald Bennett CBE DSO has been described as ‘a good talker with more wit than humour; and yet essentially not a talker but a man of action’. ‘Don’ Bennett came from ‘deep in the rich mud of the Darling Downs’ of Queensland before the family moved to Brisbane. He had been a great civil pilot before the war. In 1938 he flew the Mercury, the upper component of the Mayo composite aircraft, from Dundee to South Africa and established a long-distance record for seaplanes. He joined the RAAF as a cadet in 1930 and was commissioned in the RAF in 1931. He took a flying boat pilot’s course at Calshot in 1932, transferred to the RAAF Reserve in 1935 and the eve of war found him in command of the Cabot, the big flying boat which was to carry the mail from Southampton to New York. Soon after the Germans invaded Norway the Cabot and her sister flying boat Caribou were destroyed by the enemy in the Norwegian fjords. Bennett was among the founders of the Atlantic Ferry Service. He was re-commissioned in the RAFVR in 1941 and was called on for service on the active list.

49 No 5 Bomber Group RAF 1939-45, Faber & Faber, 1951.

50 On the night of 15/16th April when 96 aircraft were detailed to bomb Kiel Flight Sergeant Wallace Ivor ‘Wally’ Lashbrook on 35 Squadron, piloting Halifax ‘G-George’ lost his hydraulics over Hamburg. He nursed the Halifax home to Linton-on-Ouse very short of fuel but the runway lights were switched off just as he made his approach, thinking he was an enemy intruder. Lashbrook overshot the approach but ran out of fuel before he could line-up with the runway again. The Halifax hit a tree near Tollerton village. Only the navigator and the tail gunner were slightly injured, the rest of the crew escaping relatively unharmed.

51 Squadron Leader Wally Lashbrook DFM on 102 Squadron who had just begun his second tour and was on his 36th operation and flying Halifax ‘T for Tommy’.



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