Squadron: Ferry Command (RAF)

Start Date: 1941-09-21

Completion Date: 1941-09-21

Mission: Ferry Flight

Operation: unspecified

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Base: Dorval, Quebec

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Crash City: Atlantic Ocean

Crash Specifics: unspecified

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RAF Ferry Command, Dorval, Quebec. Hudson III aircraft AE545 was lost without a trace on a flight between Gander, Newfoundland and Prestwick, Scotland

Flight Lieutenant RF Leavitt (RAF)(Can), Sergeant EW McFall (RCAF) and Canadian civilian Radio Officer RD Anderson were all missing, presumed killed in this flying accident

The missing have no known graves and all are commemorated on memorials in Canada and the UK

Ocean Bridge, The History of RAF Ferry Command by Carl A Christie, pages 311, 389n27

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General RAF Commands

Hudson AE545 Mk. III - Ferry Flight - 1941-09-21 to 1941-09-21