Speaking to visiting relatives yesterday and they need help regards a relative who was killed during WW11.
Only info I have been able to supply is from the CWGC site.
Details are as follows..
PO Percival Vincent Wilson (RAFVR), Service No 148062, killed 19/11/1943.
Runnymede Memorial.
Any sites with more info would be greatly appreciated, Ta.
By: Drem - 26th March 2007 at 07:00
Pilot
Thanks Moggy and Ross, help greatly appreciated.:)
By: Ross_McNeill - 25th March 2007 at 21:10
No.15 OTU ferry loss in transit from Portreath to Rabat.
Wellington LN704
F/O C R Leitch
Sgt M J Martin
Sgt J M Carruthers
Sgt R N De C Hogge
Sgt W R Silcocks
Sgt H A Wright
Sgt A I Hosie
Sgt P Ringrose
F/O P V Wilson
Took off 07:45 hrs. Shot down by 2/ZG1 in postion PLQ 24W/1634 at either 11:05 or 11:20 hrs.
Regards
Ross
By: Moggy C - 25th March 2007 at 20:44
No way of knowing if he was involved, but Bomber Command lost heavily that night
18/19 November 1943
The ‘Battle of Berlin’ begins
440 Lancasters and 4 Mosquitos were dispatched. Few German fighters intercepted the force. 9 Lancasters were lost, 2.0 per cent of the force. Berlin was completely cloud-covered and both marking and bombing were carried out blindly; Bomber Command could make no assessment of the results.
Major diversionary raid on Mannheim and Ludwigshafen by 395 aircraft – 248 Halifaxes, 114 Stirlings, 33 Lancasters – of Nos 3, 4, 6 and 8 Groups. German fighters successfully engaged the bomber force and 23 aircraft – 12 Halifaxes, 9 Stirlings, 2 Lancasters – were lost, 5.8 per cent of the force.
Cloud was present over the target area and much of the bombing was scattered. 21 people were killed, 154 injured and 7,500 bombed out. Many bombs fell outside the city and the local report lists much damage and loss at farms.This was the last major raid on the much-bombed city of Mannheim for 15 months.
10 Mosquitos to Essen, 6 to Aachen and 6 to Frankfurt, 16 Wellingtons minelaying from Texel to St Nazaire, 7 OTU sorties.
Total effort for the night: 884 sorties, 32 aircraft (3.6 per cent) lost.
Moggy
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March 25, 2007 at 8:23 pm