Desmond William Thane
Service number
404557
Military unit
408 Sqdn Royal Canadian Air Force Royal New Zealand Air Force
Address
Wellington, New Zealand.
Date of birth
Date of death
28 Dec 1941 (21 years old)
Place of birth
Wellington, New Zealand.
Employment, education or hobbies
Unknown
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Family history
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Military history
28 December 1941 Hampden P1165 408 Sqn. Take off 18.55 RAF Balderton as part of an 81 aircraft raid to bomb the Nitrile Butadiene Rubber production works, Chemische Werke Huls at Marl, Recklinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Intercepted and shot down on return at 22.40 by a night fighter Bf110 piloted by Oblt Helmut Woltersdorf of 7/NJG1 out of Fliegerhorst Twente. P1165 crashed at Dorpbuurt, east of Winterswijk, Gelderland, Netherlands.
Sgt Desmond Thane RNZAF
Sgt Douglas Williams
Sgt Peter Isaac - All killed.
P/O Stuart Brackenbury RCAF POW No 1413 Stalag VI-B - Stalag XXIB - Stalag Luft III.
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