Can anyone suply details of this airman and how he met his death please?
Pilot Officer Eric Crowe Loughead.
J/16312, Royal Canadian Air Force, died on 12 December 1942 Age 21.
I have the details from the Commonwealth War Graves Commision web site, and I have visited and photographed his grave recently.
Thanks in advance.
By: critter592 - 5th April 2013 at 04:29
From my database, and from Chorley’s Bomber Command Losses:
Wellington Ic T2896
28 OTU
12:12:1942
Loughborough
Took off from Wymeswold at 2040 for night circuits and landings. Reported to have lost sight of the flarepath and crashed into trees near Loughborough at 2300.
Crew:
Pilot Officer E C Loughead RCAF +
Sergeant C G Foster RNZAF (Injured)
Sergeant Godfrey (Injured)
Flight Sergeant Crickmore (Injured)
Additional Information:
Sergeant Foster was quite seriously injured; it was to be nine months before he was passed fit to fly. Later in the war, while serving with 550 Squadron, he failed to return from the Nuremburg raid in March 1944.
By: Arabella-Cox - 4th April 2013 at 21:53
28 OTU.
He was killed when his Wellington crashed and burned out near Loughborough.
He came from Truro, Nova-Scotia.
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April 4, 2013 at 9:46 pm