Gordon Maclean

15/16 May 1941 Wellington R1494 103 Sqn RAF Newton. Take off 22.45 from raf Swanton Morley to shorten the range operation to Hannover, heard on W/T that port engine had failed and the aircraft was going down 01.40 near Oude Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands.

Hit by Flak from 2 Battery at Delfzij, of the Marine-Flak-Abteilung 236, between 01.15 and 01.20 from the direction of Emden.

101 aircraft on raid 2 Wellingtons and 1 Hampden all lost to Flak. The main post office and telephone exchange used as the aiming point for this area attack.

P/O Raymond Eccles - Killed.
P/O H Sellers - POW No 1622 Stalag VII-A
P/O A Sulston - POW No 3723 Oflag X-C badly burnt treated in camp hospital
Sgt E Easton - POW No 23 Stalag XVIII-A
Sgt S Hamblin - POW No 2 Stalag XVIII-A

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