Thomas Ken Dudley

Handley Page Halifax Mk II JD273 from RAF Melbourne mission to Berlin, Shot down by Ju88 C night fighter piloted by Oblt Gerhard Raht NJG3, Funker Fw Anton Heinemann and Bordmechaniker Uffz Werner Hesse and controlled by the radar station “Star” based at Lütjenhorn in Northern Germany. The night fighter had started from Jagel air base at 01:22 and after having claimed JD273 it shot down Halifax JB412 at 02:37 over Varnæs. The JU 88C then landed at Neurruppin air field near Berlin at 04.05. Halifax JD273 crashed in to the Kliplev moor killing all onboard at 02.34.

Also killed
Sgt Arthur O`Connor
F/Sgt James Watters
P/O Gerald Twigge RCAF
F/Sgt Albert Mayes
Sgt Albert Saxty. Bodies recovered and buried 2/2/44.

The Germans closed the area to the Danes but soon The Civil Air Defense started to search the area for bombs and wreckage. This was stopped on 18/2/1944 due to heavy frost making digging impossible.

In April the digging started again and finally on 30/7 1944 the area was declared to have been cleaned of wreckage.

F/O Vernon Miles RCAF - Son of Ray Clement Miles and Bertha May Miles, of Bentley, Alberta, Canada. Body recovered 30/4/44 buried 3/5/44
F/Sgt Thomas Dudley - On 30/8/1944 at 09:00 Farm bailiff Revsbeck found the body of F/Sgt
Dudley some two hundred meters from the crash site. Only an arm and a leg and an unopened parachute could be seen. The Wehrmacht were informed and they excavated the remains, buried 1/9/44.
All crew buried at Aabenraa cemetery Denmark.

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