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Flight Sergeant

Francis Elden Hagel

Service number R/71111
Military unit 408 Sqdn Royal Canadian Air Force
Address 236 Kingston Row, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Date of birth 29 May 1909
Date of death 15 Apr 1942 (32 years old)
Place of birth Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Employment, education or hobbies

Mining exploration.

Family history

Son of Percival and Rachel Hagel; husband of Dorothy Hagel nee Wray.

Military history

14/15 April 1942 Hampden AT141 408 Sqn Take off RAF Balderton , coned by searchlights and hit by heavy Flak, crashed at Eichlinghofen at 22:03 on 14 April during a mission to Dortmund with the loss of its crew. 208 aircraft - 142 Wellingtons, 34 Hampdens, 20 Stirlings, 8 Halifaxes, and 4 Manchesters - a force which was several times greater than any previously sent to this city. 5 Wellingtons and 4 Hampdens lost. 132 aircraft claimed to have bombed Dortmund but bombing photographs showed that bombs fell across a 40-mile stretch of the Ruhr. Dortmund reports 1 unspecified industrial building destroyed, 1 military establishment severely damaged, 4 dwelling-houses destroyed and 31 damaged with 4 people killed and 27 injured.

Sgt Archibald McClintock RCAF
F/Sgt Joseph Boisvert RCAF
Sgt John Johnstone
F/Sgt Francis Hagel RCAF

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