Marauder FB454 IIIB - Aircraft Ferrying - 1943-10-13 to 1943-10-13
Squadron: 45 Group (RAF)
Start Date: 1943-10-13
Completion Date: 1943-10-13
Mission: Aircraft Ferrying
Operation: unspecified
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Base: Nassau, Bahamas
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Crash City: Atlantic Ocean
Crash Specifics: one mile west of Windsor Field, Nassau, Bahamas
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: engine
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War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable

45 Group, RAF Transport Command, Nassau, Bahamas. Marauder II aircraft FB 454, on a training flight with a crew comprised of four pilots, caught fire and crashed into the sea one mile west of Windsor Field, Nassau, Bahamas

Flying Officer DW Cormack (RCAF) and Flying Officer D Durward (RAFVR), Flying Officer RH Barber (RAFVR) and Flight Lieutenant JG Owen DFC (RAFVR)(SA) were killed in this flying accident

The bodies of of Flying Officer Barber and Flight Lieutenant Owen were recovered and are buried in the Nassau War Cemetery

Flying Officer Cormack and Flying Officer Durward were missing, believed killed and have no known grave

The missing are commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial

Ocean Bridge, The History of RAF Ferry Command by Carl A Christie page 321

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