Karl,

I actually wrote to you some years ago, but obviously the letter didn’t reach to you. At the time I knew Jim was alive and was quite desperate to trace him. I believe he has now passed away. Most of my info came from Bill Norman’s excellent book.

So far I’ve found that Bill Ralph is buried between Huckle and McKaig, so at least they kept them together.

LL

I knew the lone survivor Jim Willoughby who I met in White Rock. B.C. about 10 yeras ago when doing research on Halifax crews.

He gave me a copy of his memoirs, booklet really, about his crew, tour, shootdown, evasion, and POW experience.

If you or the Ralph family, if found, are interested tell them to contact me on
our Halifax forum at our site http://www.57rescuecanada.com

The best source for info on 640 sq. is Bill Norman, author in Yorkshire who has done a 640 squadon history, he frequents our forum, so look in our archived threads for his coordinates.

Thanks for thinking of the family of this crew.

Cheers, Karl Kj.