Aircraft lost on Allied Force's Special Duty Operations & Associated Roll of Honour
(still under construction - last amended 22.8.2015)
Date
Aircraft Type &
Serial
Unit Crew Location Cause Sources /
References
Listing compiled by Roy Tebbutt of the Carpetbagger Aviation Museum, Harrington, UK. email
cbaggermuseum@aol.com Page 110
14/15.8.43 Halifax Mk II JD180 NF-O 138 Sqdn RAF
S/L F.C. Griffiths AFC - Pilot - wounded - evader
F/O Sydney John Congdon DFM, RAFVR -
Navigator - killed
Sgt Frederick Ronald Davies RAF - Flight
Engineer - killed
F/O Roderick Alexander MacKenzie RAFVR -
Air Bomber - killed
Sgt John Maden RAFVR - Gunner / dispatcher
- shot by Italians 15.8.43
P/O Robert William Peters DFM, RAFVR -
Wireless Op / Gunner - killed
F/Sgt Francis Pollard RAFVR - Gunner - killed
F/O Congdon & F/Sgt Pollard are buried at
Meythet Communal Cemetery, France
Sgt Davies, F/O MacKenzie, Sgt Maden & P/O
Peters are buried at St Germain-Au-Mont-D'Or
Communal Cemetery Extension, France
Commemorative plaque unveiled in 1986,
Monument unveiled 1994
Meythet (Haute-Savoie) France
Airborne 21:40 14 Aug 43 14-08-1943 Saturday from Tempsford on Operation PIMENTO 12, near Charvonnex, France.After
successfully dropping containers and packages the aircraft crash-landed 0115 hrs due to a technical malfunction causing multiple engine failure, colliding with two houses at
Meythet (Faute-Savoie), 1 km NW of Annecy killing 5 civilians on the ground as well as 5 of the crew.
http://www.harringtonmuseum.org.uk/...-on-Allied-Forces-Special-Duty-Operations.pdf
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