Trying to make contact with the authors of “Espionage in the Ether” by W J Rees and J E Rees. This is the story of 192 (BS) Squadron, part of 100 Group. I am conducting research for the family of one of the crew members lost in action.
By: mistyblue - 6th January 2011 at 20:06
RAF 100 Group Association
Hello
I am a newbie to the group and thought I’d introduce myself. I would also like to include information contained in recent messages re 192 Squadron in our Association magazine of which I am Editor.
As Secretary/Treasurer and Founder member of RAF 100 Group Association I am passionate about aviation in all its forms, but particularly in 192 Squadron of 100 Group, based in Norfolk through WWII. My mother was due to marry a Spec/Op Vic Vinnell a few days after his mosquito, DK292, went missing, and he and his Canadian friend and pilot Jack Fisher were never found. My mother always wanted to know what happened, the truth, whatever that was, and I spent ten years tracking their journey, using official documentation, their hundreds of letters shared, diaries, and other 100 Group member accounts. It is through this research that I became founder member of the RAF 100 Group Association. My mother died just short of meeting those who knew and worked with her sweetheart. But at each Reunion in May we come together and remember, and it’s wonderful to have such a growing thriving and very warm and loving family of which I am proud and honoured to be a part.
As an author, I had published on the 60th anniversary of his death, November 2004, my mother’s wartime story together with what happened to DK292 – ‘Nina & Vic: A World War II Love Story’, Woodfield. It is the only memorial he and Jack will have.
‘Confound & Destroy‘ was the motto of 192 Squadron, and is the title of the magazine we produce from home and send out to 150 members worldwide.
The email address for joining our Association is –
[email]raf100groupassociation@googlemail.com[/email]
It is £15 per year, which gives you four quarterly magazines, a membership card as a passport into the City of Norwich Aviation Museum, home to the Association, and an open invitation to our annual May Reunion in Norfolk.
This is a long posting.
But mention of 192 Squadron brought me here. If anyone would like to contact me for further information on this, or would like me to include their experiences, or a relatives experience in our magazine, then I will be happy to hear from you.
mistyblue 🙂
By: PeterKivell - 5th January 2011 at 01:17
192 (BS) Squadron
To Twosix, I see that you would like some information on a family member that was in the 192 (BS) Squadron. I also had a family member that was in the 192 (BS) Squadron,
Pilot Officer BRIAN LEONARD BUTLER, 429992, 192 Sqdn, Royal New Zealand Air Force, It was officially assumed that P/O Butler, with all the members of his crew, crashed in the North Sea. P/O BUTLER, together with the members of his crew, were reported missing and subsequently officially presumed dead, He died on the 9 February 1945, aged 21 years. On the night of the 8/2/1945 Brian Butler P/O Halifax B111 MZ 342 DT-B took off from Foulsham at 1941 hours (7.41 pm) en route to Politz to search the radar. On returning at between 2-3,000 feet, in cloud off the Danish coast, collided with Lancaster 1 PD 376 (flown by P/O D E J Chalkley of Squadron 625) and crashed into sea at a positive 5617N:0748E at 01:20. Data plate of MZ 342 found embedded in the Lancaster on its safe landing in Britain. F.T.R. No survivors of Halifax. Two of the crew, are buried in Denmark, while their six comrades are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. (Shown below). If you would like some more information let me know or visit the attached link back to BRIAN LEONARD BUTLER’s webpages
Crew:
F/Sgt. R.D. Mitcheson 1592400 Wireless Operator RAFVR Runnymede Panel 276 Surrey UK
F/Sgt. D.W. Webb 1187233 Bomb Aimer29 RAFVR Esbjerg (Fourfelt), Denmark Cemetary Plot A. Row13 Grave 9
Sgt/ E.A.E. Tucker 1852712 Mid-upper Gunner19 RAFVR Runnymede Panel 277 Surrey UK
Sgt. B.F. Woods 1881002 Rear Gunner20 RAFVR Husby Churchyard, Denmark
Sgt. K.G. Cheshire 1591797 Flight Engineer19 RAFVR Runnymede Panel 274 Surrey UK
F/O N. Burrows 51119 Special Operator29 RAFVR Runnymede Panel 265 Surrey UK
P/O B. L. Butler 429992 Pilot21 RNZAF Runnymede Panel 285 Surrey UK
F/O D.P.M. Finnigan176001 Navigator23 RAFVR Runnymede Panel 266 Surrey UK
http://thekivellfamily.co.nz/butler_history/02_butler_history_12.html
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