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Chubb, Alfred Willliam (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1943-September-27

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Birth Date: 1908 (age 35)

Alfred Charles & Edith Amelia Chubb

Hilda Jessie Chubb, of Forest Gate, Essex

Home: Forest Gate, Essex, England

Service
RAFVR
Unit
432 (B) Sqn- Squadron
Saeviter Ad Lucem Ferociously toward the light
Base
RAF Skipton-on-Swale
Rank
Pilot Officer
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
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Service Numbers
155352

Wellington B. Mk. X HE817

Bombing Hanover Germany 1943-September-27 to 1943-September-27

(B) Sqn (RCAF) Eastmoor

Battle of Berlin

678 aircraft - 312 Lancasters, 231 Halifaxes, 111 Stirlings, 24 Wellingtons. 5 B.17s also took .part, 38 Bomber Command aircraft - 17 Halifaxes, I0 Lancasters, I0 Stirlings, 1 Wellington - lost, s-6 per cent of the force, and l B-I7 also lost.

The use by the Pathfinders of faulty forecast winds again saved the centre of Hannover. The bombing was very concentrated but fell on an area 5 miles north of the city centre. No details are available from Germany but R.A.F. photographic evidence showed that most of the bombs fell in open country or villages north of the city.

source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt

Wellington X aircraft HE 817 QO-K failed to return from night operations over Hanover, Germany. The aircraft was coned by searchlights over the target and possibly hit by flak. The Wellington was attacked by a night fighter which collided with the bomber during the attack and it crashed at Schulenburger, Landstrasse, Hanover, Germany

Only two crew members survived

FS LF Cook (RCAF), Pilot Officer SK Atkinson (RCAF), FS ICR Bowden (RAF), and Pilot Officer AW Chubb (RAFVR) were missing, presumed killed in action

The missing have no known graves and are all commemorated on the Runnymede War Memorial

Sergeant WA Grant (RCAF), and M/Sergeant SC Bybee (USAAF) survived and were taken as Prisoners of War

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General 432 Squadron Wellington X HE817 QO-K P/O. Atkinson, Hanover...

Took off from Skipton-on-Swale At 19:38 in Wellington Mk X (Sqn code QO-K Bomber Command) on an operation to Hanover Germany.

Aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed at Schulenburger Landstraße (street), Hannover, Niedersachsen Germany.

Killed: Pilot Officer Stanley Kyle Atkinson RCAF J/18229 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 175. Flight Sergeant Leo Frederick Cook RCAF R/144405 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 181. Flight Sergeant Irvine Charles Randolph Bowden RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 135. Pilot Officer Alfred William Chubb RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 131.

POWs: Sergeant Shelton Celvin Bybee USAAF POW camp not listed. Flying Officer William Alexander Grant RCAF J/18813 POW Dulag DL Wetzlar

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Commonwealth War Graves Commission International Bomber Command Centre

Pilot Officer Alfred Willliam Chubb has no known grave.

Home
Google MapForest Gate, Essex, England
Target
Google MapHanover Germany

Google MapRunnymede Memorial Surrey
Panel 131

Wellington HE817

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