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401 Ram (City of Westmount) Squadron RCAF (Mors celerima hostibus) RAF Biggin Hill. Flight Lieutenant Donald Robert Morrison DFM DFC (RCAF) took off in Spitfire IX BS 202 as part of Circus 235, escorting American B-17 Flying Fortress's on a bombing raid against a steel works just outside Lyon, France. On the return flight, his aircraft was attacked by German fighters and shot down, most likely by a Focke-Wulf 190 near Calais, France. His left leg was struck by a cannon shell and so badly damaged that had to be amputated below the knee by German doctors in Hospital at St Omer, France. Moved to several different hospitals afterwards for treatment, Flight Lieutenant Morrison was eventually sent to Stalag Luft 3 and was one of 11 RCAF prisoners included in the first Repatriation of Prisoners of War, in which sick and injured Allied PoWs were exchanged for German PoWs, leaving Stalag Luft 3, Sagen, October 25, 1943. Taken first to Sweden by train, then by ship to Scotland, before finally being put aboard a Hospital Ship and returning to Canada in November 1943. He later became an instructor at #20 Elementary Flaying Training School and left RCAF service 1945-03-14
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The RCAF Overseas, The First Four Years, pages 33,48,50,52-3,56-9,61,65-8,71,111,357,360
All the Fine Young Eagles, In the Cockpit with Canada's Second World War Fighter Pilots by David L Bashow, pages 84,99-100,118
Above and Beyond, The Canadians War in the Air 1939-45 by Spencer Dunmore, pages 221-3, 225
401 Squadron Spitfire IX BS202 Fl/Lt Morrison DFM DFC RAF Biggin Hill,...