Maurice Leonard Hunt
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Son of Rowlan Brown Hunt, and of Edith Lena Hunt (nee Foreman), of Mount Bruce, Masterton, New Zealand.
Lancaster RA546 227 Sqn Take off RAF Balderton to bomb the Wintershall Synthetic Oil Plant. Intercepted inbound at 21.20 and shot down by a Bf110 night fighter piloted by Maj Herbert Lutje NGJ6 crashing at Illesheim.
Parachuted out injured, dying 18/3/45. Badly burnt on hands, face and left side. On reaching the ground, he was taken prisoner by 2 civilians. Peter Hubner and Johann Kilian (possibly Hitlerjugend) badly beating the airman before he was taken to Illesheim airfield. Adujant Hptm Oscar Stumpf, Zerstörergeschwader 101 (ZG 101) placed F/Lt Hunt in a cell without medical treatment and he subsequently died of neglect at 10.30 18/3/1945.
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