| Lancaster DS726 EQ-Y | 408 Sqn | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date : | 13 juin 1944 | Mission : | Bombardement d’installations ferroviaires à Cambrai (59) | ||||||||||||||||
| Décollage : | Linton on Ouse à 21:59 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Causes de la perte : | Abattu par le Major Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer 4/NJG1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lieu de la perte : | Seranvillers-Forenville (59) | ||||||||||||||||||
 | Plt Off | Jack | BRAY | WOP AG | RAFVR | 174002 | KIA | ||||||||||||
 | Fg Off | Wendell Chesley | BURNS | AB | RCAF | J/21574 | POW | ||||||||||||
| Plt Off | Joseph Jean Baptiste Gaston | LAPIERRE | AG | RCAF | R/148486 | EVA |  | |||||||||||
| Fg Off | Gordon Ewart | MALLORY | Nav | RCAF | C/16622 | KIA | ||||||||||||
| WO | Harry Frederick | MURPHY | AG | RCAF | R/151486 | KIA | ||||||||||||
| Plt Off | Robert Duncan | OCHSNER | AG | RCAF | J/85342 | KIA | ||||||||||||
| Sqn Ldr | William Benjamin | STEWART | Pil | RCAF | J/15486 | KIA | ||||||||||||
| Plt Off | Norman | VARLEY | FE | RAFVR | 178252 | KIA | ||||||||||||
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| Distinguished Flying Cross Warrant Officer Joseph Jean Baptiste Gaston LAPIERRE (CAN/R.148486), Royal Canadian Air Force, No. 408 (R.C.A.F.) Squadron. As air gunner, Warrant Offier Lapierre has completed a large number of sorties, including 9 attacks on Berlin. On one occasion, after successfully bombing the German capital, Warrant Officer Lapierre sighted a fighter closing in. He promptly gave his pilot the necessary evading directions but the bomber was struck by a burst of machine-gun fire. His turret was damaged and be was deprived of the use of the intercommunication system The lead of his oxygen supply was also severed. Nevertbeless, this resolute gunner finally drove off the attacker. Displaying exceptional devotion to duty be manned his post throughout the remainder of the flight despite the lack of oxygen. He set an example of a high order FOURTH SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE of FRIDAY, the 9th of June, 1944. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 30 mai 2020 : ajout des prénoms du Fg Off BURNS | |||||||||||||||||||