Nappan Station, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
5 Operational Training Unit. WO. Logan was assigned to special duty with the Royal Navy and was lost at sea when H.M.S. Asphodel was torpedoed and sunk whilst defending a valuable convoy. Logan had been interned in Portugal on November 24, 1943 after the aircraft he was on became lost due to bad weather, ran out of fuel and made a forced landing on the beach near Santa Cruz, Portugal. WO. Logan returned to the United Kingdom on December 29, 1943. He had also been slightly injured on August 26, 1943 in a Beaufort aircraft accident at Firth of Clyde.
Logan, Carson Layton (Warrant Officer 2nd Class)
Killed in Action 1944-March-09
Birth Date: 1922
Born:
Parents: Son of James Hugh and Elizabeth Logan, of Nappan Station, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia. Regional Scholarship to Dalhousie University, Halifax, 1940.
Spouse:
Home: Nappan Station, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
5 OTU- Operational Training Unit
Base
Rank
Warrant Officer 2nd Class
Position
Navigator
Service Numbers
R/104197
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