The airmen who perished in the attack and resulting crash were-
RAF Sergeant Phillip Denis BYRNE,
RCAF Flight Sergeant John Chisholm FITZGERALD and
RCAF Pilot Officer Wilbert Andrews SHOEMAKER DFC.
From the Canadian Virtual War Memorial--
Military Service:-
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Air Gunner
Service Number: R/88211
Age: 19
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: RAF 15 Squadron; RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire
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A student, residing on Atlantic Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 11 March 1941 in Halifax.
Son of James O'Neill Fitzgerald and Nina Helen (née Chisholm) Fitzgerald of Halifax; brother of James, Nancy, Madeline, Margaret, and Colonel Joan Fitzgerald, OMM, OSTJ, CD.
Flight Sergeant John Chisholm Fitzgerald is commemorated on Page 73 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
The airmen who perished in the attack and resulting crash were-
RAF Sergeant Phillip Denis BYRNE,
RCAF Flight Sergeant John Chisholm FITZGERALD and
RCAF Pilot Officer Wilbert Andrews SHOEMAKER DFC.
From the Canadian Virtual War Memorial--
Military Service:-
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Air Gunner
Service Number: R/88211
Age: 19
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: RAF 15 Squadron; RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire
[MOTTO: ‘Aim Sure’]
A student, residing on Atlantic Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 11 March 1941 in Halifax.
Son of James O'Neill Fitzgerald and Nina Helen (née Chisholm) Fitzgerald of Halifax; brother of James, Nancy, Madeline, Margaret, and Colonel Joan Fitzgerald, OMM, OSTJ, CD.
Flight Sergeant John Chisholm Fitzgerald is commemorated on Page 73 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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