Squadron: (GR) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1943-11-20
Completion Date: 1943-11-20
Mission: Convoy Patrol
Operation: unspecified
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Base: Castle Archdale
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Operated by No. 422 (GR) Squadron, RCAF from 12 December 1942, coded "G". Operating from Castle Archdale on 16 June 1943, when it sighted 3 u-boats near 44-04N 13-42W, but lost them in haze before an attack could be started. Escorted convoys returning from Africa on 20(?) November 1943.
In the vicinity of combined convoy SL-139/MKS-30: forewarned by the Naxos radar detector, U-648 fought off the Sunderland with accurate AA fire. Approx. one hour later the aircraft sent a distress call saying it was about to ditch at 42°40N/19°30W. The crew of 11 were never found.
source: Malcolm Deeley, Ulster Aviation Society
R H Strauss, W.S. Johnson, J.D. Ulrichsen, C.G. Gorrie, FSs N. Barrett, B.G. Burton (RAF), R.A. Park (RAF), Sergeants N.P. Cook (RAF), and N.N. Lewis (RAF) were killed. Two others of the crew, not Canadians, missing believed killed.