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21/22 June, 1944; WESSELING:
P/O Bert Shinn DFC and crew are known to have come down in the
sea off the Dutch coast. P/O Shinn's body was washed ashore near
Brouwershaven on 11 July, 1944; he is now buried at Bergan op
Zoom. The body of F/Sgt Stanley Hawes was recovered from the
beach at Wassenaar also on 11 July, 1944; he is buried in The
Hague (Westduin) Cemetery. F/O John Stanley's body was recovered
from the sea on 17 July, 1944; he rests with his skipper in Bergen
op Zoom Cemetery.
That fateful morning at Fiskerton, as the
station slowly stirred into life, those fresh from sleep found
the whole situation incredulous; six empty dispersals. A bomber
base becomes hardened, perhaps almost immune to a steady loss
of crews, but on that Thursday morning, at Fiskerton, Dunholme,
East Kirkby and Spilsby, all were totally stunned.
The total casualty list from the operation was 37 aircraft missing,
representing 27.8 per centof the Lancaster force.
Lancaster ND683 (EA-K)
P/O A.W. Shinn DFC Pilot (Killed)
Sgt N.G.V.
Pettit F/E (Missing)
F/O J.B.
Stanley NAV (Killed)
F/S S. Hawes W/AG (Killed)
Sgt A.E. Dicken A/G (Killed)
P/O V.C.
Cully RCAF B/A (Missing)
Sgt A.
Armstrong A/G (Missing)
Crew on their 10th opeartion
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