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Canadian Airmen Lost in Wwii by Date 1943 CANADA'S AIR WAR 1945 updated 21/04/08 January 1945 424 Sqn. and 433 Sqn. begin to re-equip with Lancaster B.I & B.III aircraft (RCAF Sqns.). 443 Sqn. begins to re-equip with Spitfire XIV and XIVe aircraft (RCAF Sqns.). Helicopter Training School established in England on Sikorsky Hoverfly I helicopters. One of these aircraft is transferred to the RCAF. An additional 16 PLUTO fuel pipelines are laid under the English Channel to points in France (Oxford). Japanese airstrip at Sandakan, Borneo, is put out of action by Allied bombing. Built with forced labour by some 3,600 Indonesian civilians and 2,400 Australian and British PoWs captured at Singapore (of which only some 1,900 were still alive at this time). It is decided to abandon the airfield. Between January and March the prisoners are force marched in groups to a new location 160 miles away, but most cannot complete the journey due to disease and malnutrition, and are killed by their guards. Only 6 Australian servicemen are found alive from this group at the end of the war, having escaped from the column, and only 3 of these survived to testify against their guards. All the remaining enlisted RAF prisoners of 205 Sqn., captured at Singapore and Indonesia, died in these death marches (Jardine, wikipedia). On the Russian front Soviet and Allied air forces (French, Czechoslovakian, Polish, etc, units flying under Soviet command) on their front with Germany total over 16,000 fighters, bombers, dive bombers and ground attack aircraft (Passingham & Klepacki). During January #2 Flying Instructor School, Pearce, Alberta, closes (http://www.bombercrew.com/BCATP.htm). Monday 1 Japanese fighters from Iwo Jima attack B-29 bases on Saipan with limited results. www.bombercommandmuseumarchives.ca Fragments of a Japanese Balloon Bomb recovered near Stony Rapids, Saskatchewan (Mikesh). Just after midnight the first V-2 of the New Year lands in Antwerp, killing 45 and injuring 33 (http://www.v2rocket.com/start/deployment/timeline.html). In the Alsace region German forces begin a new offensive, Operation NORDWIND, again making initial advances against thinly held US positions. Bomber Command attacks railway tunnels in the Eifel border region of Germany and Belgium to disrupt supply to German forces in the Ardennes (W.R. Chorley), using 17 Mosquitos dropping 4,000 lb. bombs horizontally into the tunnel entrances in daylight. A force of 102 Lancasters and 2 marker Mosquitos attacked the repaired Dortmund-Ems Canal near Ladbergen. Total sorties were 121 with the loss of 3 aircraft (BC War Diaries). 1 99 Sqn. Liberator VI KH360 "G" or "C" "Lindy Lou" shot down by anti-aircraft fire off the coast of Burma while attacking shipping, WO1 G.L. Rowe, Sgt L.V. Chandler RAF, F/S J. Johnson RAF, F/L H.C.L. White RAF, F/S A. Hampshire RAF, F/S W.P. Hughes RAF, F/S G.D. Wright RAF and F/O P.J. Cuff RAF missing, Sgt C.R. Garner RAF, Sgt C. Thomson RAF and Sgt E. Hardisty RAF PoW (J. McCredie via Matt_Poole www.rafb24.com). 1 43 Sqn. Spitfire LF.IX PV137 hit by flak and crashed in a dive bombing attack on gun positions in Italy, F/O W.R. Dauphin killed. 1 9 Sqn. Lancaster I NG252 WS-R crashed just after taking off on an operation to Germany, P/O E.H. Cooper, F/O C.S. Newton RCAF (USA), P/O R.S. Stevens, Sgt C. Booth RAF, F/S P. Grant RAF and Sgt L.G. Kelly RAF killed, P/O R.C. Flynn injured. 1 unknown unit S/L J.O.G. Cann died in Canada. 1 Operation BODENPLATTE - Last major German air offensive. Over 1,000 German fighters attack Allied airfields in Belgium, Holland and Northern France, destroying 156 Allied aircraft, but losing over 300 fighters shot down or damaged (Oxford). This attack was originally meant to support the offensive in the Ardennes, but was delayed by weather. Effect on Allied air forces was small as overall damage inflicted was slight and destroyed aircraft were soon replaced. German fighter operations, however, were crippled by the effort. Much of this disparity can be attributed to the inexperience of the German pilots, many flying armed fighters for the first time. The experienced fighter pilots of 1939 and 1940 were, largely, either dead, PoWs, with units fighting the Soviet air forces or no longer flying. The hardest hit airfield was Eindhoven, where #39 Wing RCAF (400, 414 and 430 Sqns.) and #143 Wing RCAF (168 RAF, 438, 439 and 440 Sqns.) were based. When the attack commenced flights of Typhoons from 438 and 440 Squadrons were just about to take off. 1 400 Sqn. at Eindhoven lost 5 Spitfire PR.XI destroyed and 5 damaged to German fighters. 1 401 and 412 Squadron Spitfires were on their runway at Heesch waiting to take-off when the airfield was www.bombercommandmuseumarchives.caattacked. They managed to scramble where 401 Squadrons F/O G.D. Cameron (Spitfire LF.IXb MJ448 YO-A) shot down 3 Bf 109 aircraft and F/L J. MacKay (Spitfire LF.IXb NH240 YO-Z) shot down 1 Bf 109 and 2 Fw 190 aircraft (RCAF Sqns.). This broke up the attack on this airfield. On this same day F/L J. MacKay and F/S A.K. Woodhill were credited with a shared Me 262 damaged (H.A. Halliday). 1 403 Sqn. lost 2 Spitfire LF.XVI aircraft destroyed at Evere. 1 412 Sqn. Spitfire IXe MJ877 shot down over Germany on a fighter sweep in the afternoon, F/L J.B. Doak killed. 1 412 Sqn. Spitfire IXe flown by F/L W.J. Banks shot down a Ju 88 near Dortmund (6th Year). 1 412 Sqn. Spitfire IXe aircraft flown by S/L D.H. Dover and F/L J.A. Swan attacked 2 Bf 109 fighters near Osnabrück and they each claimed one shot down (6th Year). 1 414 Sqn. Spitfire FR.IX, F/O L. Woloschuk was on a reconnaissance sortie and ran into German fighters, claiming 1 destroyed and 1 damaged (6th Year). 1 414 Sqn. Spitfire FR.IX was returning to Eindhoven and ran into the German attack, S/L G. Wonnacott claimed 3 destroyed in a low level fight (6th Year). 1 414 Sqn. had 5 further Spitfire FR.IX damaged at Eindhoven due to German fighter attack. 1 416 Sqn. Spitfire LF.XVI SM304 DN-H managed to take off from Evere airfield and shoot down 1 Bf 109 fighter before being overwhelmed and shot down over Brussels, F/L D.W.A. Harling DFC killed. At the airfield, besides this aircraft, 416 Squadron had 3 more Spitfires shot up when taxiing which did not manage to take off, and 2 more damaged in dispersals. 1 430 Sqn. Spitfire FR.XIV aircraft were waiting for take off at Eindhoven airfield in Holland when they were attacked by German fighters, F/O W.P. Golden was wounded and broke an arm jumping out of his Spitfire, and F/L R.F. Gill was wounded when his aircraft was hit by cannon fire (6th Year). The squadron lost 4 Spitfire FR.XIV and 4 Mustang I aircraft during the attack. 1 438 Sqn. Typhoon Ib PD556 F3-Q was one of 8 Typhoons ready to take off at Eindhoven, and was actually rolling down the runway when it was attacked by enemy fighters, acting Squadron commanding officer F/L P. Wilson aborted the take-off, pulled off the runway and exited the aircraft but was hit and died of his wounds (6th Year). F/L Wilson had survived a bail out June 12, 1944, off Normandy. 1 438 Sqn. Typhoon Ib PD503 F3-R, F/L Wilson's wingman F/O R.W. Keller managed to get airborne but was shot down and killed (6th Year). 1 438 Sqn. Typhoon Ib F/O D. Campbell was one of the 6 Typhoons behind the leading element and was trapped in his aircrafts cockpit on the runway in the open and endured the attacks crouching to remain unnoticed while his Typhoon was hit and damaged (6th Year). Besides these aircraft 438 lost 3 further Typhoons destroyed by fire and 2 damaged beyond repair in this attack. 1 439 Sqn. a flight of 4 Typhoons was returning to Eindhoven from a weather reconnaissance when they were intercepted by 15 or more German fighters and MM589 was shot down, F/O S. Angelini killed. On the ground at Eindhoven the squadron also lost 1 Typhoon destroyed and 1 damaged beyond repair. 1 440 Sqn. Typhoon Ib was waiting to take-off when the airfield at Eindhoven was attacked, P/O E.T. Flanagan was injured as he got clear of the cockpit. 1 440 Sqn. Typhoon Ib was waiting to take-off when German fighters attacked the airfield. P/O Watson opened fire from the ground at attacking aircraft before his aircraft was hit and set on fire and hewww.bombercommandmuseumarchives.ca was forced to abandon it (440 SH; P/O R.A. Watson?, 6th Year). The squadron lost a total of 6 Typhoons destroyed and 4 damaged, 2 beyond repair, leaving only 4 aircraft serviceable. By the afternoon 8 pilots had been sent to England to collect new aircraft (440 SH). 1 442 Sqn. Spitfire LF.IXe MH728 was returning from a fighter sweep with engine problems when he ran into the German fighter attack. F/L D.C. Gordon shot down two before being hit by flak and wounded. He crash landed in Allied territory where he was greeted by a local woman who slapped him on his injured back and wished him "Happy New Year!" as he climbed out of his aircraft (442 SH).
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