59 – Seranvillers-Forenville Military Cemetery

 

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)   
Royaume-Uni 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 Distinguished-Flying-Cross
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          
Royaume-Uni Plt Off Norman VARLEY FE RAFVR 178252 KIA          
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