Wood, Edward Francis (Sergeant)

Prisoner of War Died 1943-August-24

Sergeant Edward Francis Wood RCAF

Birth Date: 1919-October-23

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Home: Vancouver, British Columbia

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Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

158 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Strength In Unity

Base

Lissett

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Air Gunner

Service Numbers

R/118348

Final Burial
Google MapBerlin War Cemetery
Plot 6 Row G Grave 9

158 Squadron RAF (Strength In Unity) RAF Lissett, Halifax II aircraft HR 944 NP-K missing during the night of August 23, 1943 while engaged in operations over Berlin, Germany. The Halifax was coned by searchlights and shot down by night fighter pilot Major Werner Streib of the Stab/NJG1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Deelen airfield, the Netherlands. The aircraft was abandoned and crashed in the suburbs of Berlin-Heiligensee, Germany

Sergeant EF Wood (RCAF) survived and was taken as Prisoner of War. He died as a POW on August 2, 1944