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Logan, Carson Layton (Warrant Officer 2nd Class)

Killed in Action 1944-March-09

Birth Date: 1922 (age 22)

Son of James Hugh and Elizabeth Logan, of Nappan Station, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia. Regional Scholarship to Dalhousie University, Halifax, 1940.

Home: Nappan Station, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

Service
RCAF
Unit
5 OTU- Operational Training Unit
Rank
Warrant Officer 2nd Class
Marshal
Air Chief MarshalA/C/M
Air MarshalA/M
Air Vice MarshalA/V/M
Air CommodoreA/C
Group CaptainG/C
Wing CommanderW/C
Squadron LeaderS/L
Flight LieutenantF/L
Flying OfficerF/O
Pilot OfficerP/O
Warrant Officer 1st ClassWO1
Warrant Officer 2nd ClassWO2
Flight SergeantFS
SergeantSGT
CorporalCPL
Senior AircraftmanSAC
Leading AircraftmanLAC
Aircraftman 1st ClassAC1
Aircraftman 2nd ClassAC2
Position
Navigator
Service Numbers
R/104197
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.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Warrant Officer 2nd Class Carson Layton Logan has no known grave.

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