Kyt, Have I asked you about this before? George York was a friend of my old MD. Do you have any info on this flight? (Chorley?) I am really trying to get a photo of his headstone (and the others if possible, so I need to know what other flyers were on the aircraft. Gen has been trying however it is difficult for his contact to get to Rheinberg. YOUNG, PHILIP EDWARD Flight Lieutenant 422825 102sq RAF 13/08/1944 30 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Coll. grave 8. E. 7-11. RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal GORDON, JOHN GRIEVE Pilot Officer 423711 102sq RAF 13/08/1944 32 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Coll. grave 8. E. 7-11. RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal HARVEY, ALFRED HENRY Pilot Officer 423726 102sq RAF 13/08/1944 30 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Coll. grave 8. E. 7-11. RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal YORK, GEORGE Pilot Officer 428858 102sq RAF 13/08/1944 29 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Coll. grave 8. E. 7-11. RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal
Halifax MZ647 DY-R Mission tp Russelsheim Cause of loss and crashsite not established. F/L P E Young RAAF CWGC :: Casualty Details F/O K L Walker CWGC :: Casualty Details Sgt J C Doughty CWGC :: Casualty Details Sgt R R H Osborne CWGC :: Casualty Details F/S G York RAAF CWGC :: Casualty Details Sgt J V Finney RAAF CWGC :: Casualty Details F/S J G Gordon RAAF CWGC :: Casualty Details F/S A H Harvey RAAF CWGC :: Casualty Details 297 aircraft - 191 Lancasters, 96 Halifaxes, 10 Mosquitos - to Rüsselsheim. 13 Lancasters and 7 Halifaxes lost, 6.7 per cent of the force. The target for this raid was the Opel motor factory and normal Pathfinder marking methods were used. The motor factory was only slightly damaged; the local report states that the tyre and dispatch departments and the powerhouse were hit but most of the bombs fell in open countryside south of the target. There appears to be a couple of people on the web who are trying to establish exactly how and where this aircraft was lost but without results so far
There is a photograph of their grave and single headstone with all their names inscribed on page 4 of Young's service file: http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=1083693&I=1&SE=1
Oops sorry Spidge. There were two J V Finneys on the CWGC (both killed in Aug 1944) and I linked the wrong one. This is the correct one, and he was RAF not RAAF: Jack Vernon Finney CWGC :: Casualty Details
