Coon, George Adrian

Killed in Action 1944-05-04

Birth Date: 1923-November-11

Born:

Albert John Coon & Mary Elizabeth Coon

Home: Hines Creek, Alberta (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

582 (PFF) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
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Base

RAF Little Staughton

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Flight Sergeant

Service Numbers

R/178848

Took off from Little Staughton at 22:57 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code 60-F Bomber Command) on an operation to bomb the airfield at Montdidier France.

Aircraft shot down (means not found) and crashed at Beaulieu-les- Fontaines (Oise) 10 km NW of Noyon, France.

Killed:Flight Sergeant George Adrian Coon RCAF R/178848 KIA St. Sever Cemetery Extension, France Block.Pilot Officer Charles James Erskine O'Neill RCAF J/87299 pilot KIA St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Block.Pilot Officer Stanley Hewitt RAF KIA St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Block.Flight Sergeant Frank Norman Holmes RAF KIA St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Block Flight Sergeant James Roy Ingham RAF KIA St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Block.Sergeant James Arthur Augustus Mansfield RAF KIA St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Block.

Evader:Flying Officer J B Armstrong RCAF J/23723 Evader.

Avro Lancaster

Avro Lancaster Mk. X RCAF Serial FM 213
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The Avro Lancaster is a British Second World War heavy bomber. It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary of the Handley Page Halifax, both bombers having been developed to the same specification, as well as the Short Stirling, all three aircraft being four-engined heavy bombers adopted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the same wartime era.

The Lancaster has its origins in the twin-engine Avro Manchester which had been developed during the late 1930s in response to the Air Ministry Specification P.13/36 for a capable medium bomber for "world-wide use". Originally developed as an evolution of the Manchester (which had proved troublesome in service and was retired in 1942), the Lancaster was designed by Roy Chadwick and powered by four Rolls-Royce Merlins and in one version, Bristol Hercules engines. It first saw service with RAF Bomber Command in 1942 and as the strategic bombing offensive over Europe gathered momentum, it was the main aircraft for the night-time bombing campaigns that followed. As increasing numbers of the type were produced, it became the principal heavy bomber used by the RAF, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving within the RAF, overshadowing the Halifax and Stirling. Wikipedia

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