Birth Date: 1919
Born:
Albert Edward & Mary Adelia McLean
Home: Grimsby, Ontario (parents)
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
107 (MB) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Nous Y Serons We shall be there
Base
RAF Luqa, Malta
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Position
Flight Sergeant
Service Numbers
R/70457
Phaleron War Cemetery, Athens, Greece
Took off from Luqa, Malta on a bombing mission to Argostoli Harbor, Greece.
Shot down into the sea by enemy aircraft, no survivors.
Killed includes McLean: Flight Sergeant Jack Sidney Alexander Calderwood RCAF R/64430 KIA Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece, Plot 21. Row B. Grave 2. Sergeant Ronald Davidson Gracie RAF pilot KIA Phaleron War Cemetery, Lt Ellis Edward Chetwynd Talbot GC, MBE Royal Engineers KIA whilst acting as a liaison officer to the RAF on Malta, Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece.
The Bristol Blenheim is a British light bomber aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company (Bristol) which was used extensively in the first two years and in some cases throughout the Second World War. The aircraft was developed as Type 142, a civil airliner, in response to a challenge from Lord Rothermere to produce the fastest commercial aircraft in Europe. The Type 142 first flew in April 1935, and the Air Ministry, impressed by its performance, ordered a modified design as the Type 142M for the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a bomber. Deliveries of the newly named Blenheim to RAF squadrons commenced on 10 March 1937. Wikipedia
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