Wood, Ronald Mark (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1945-February-21

Flight Sergeant Ronald Mark Wood RCAF

Birth Date: 1924

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Home: Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan

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Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

223 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
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Base

RAF Oulton

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Wireless Air Gunner

Service Numbers

R/176382

Final Burial
Google MapBritish Cemetery
Plot VII Row E Grave 4

Took off from Oulton at 22:36 in Liberator Mk VI Sqn code: 6G-J Bomber Command on a Radio Counter Measures mission (dropping chaff) in the direction of Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Shot down by a night fighter and crashed SE of Dortmund, Germany.

Killed includes Wood: Flight Sergeant Desmond Bryant RAF KIA Venray War Cemetery Ref : VII. E. 6., Holland. Flight Sergeant John Henry Kendall RAF KIA Venray War Cemetery Ref : VII. E. 5. Flying Officer John Willard Thompson RCAF J/38084 KIA Pilot Venray War Cemetery Ref : VII. E. 1. Sergeant Edwin Eric Whittaker RAF KIA Venray War Cemetery Ref : VII. E. 3. Flight Sergeant Ronald Wynn RAF KIA Venray War Cemetery Ref : VII. E. 2.

POWs: W/O William Francis Baker RAF POW camp not listed. W/O Ronald Albert Victor Palmer RAF POW camp not listed. Flight Sergeant George Robert Graham RAF POW camp not listed. Flying Officer Ronald Walter Johnson RAF POW camp not listed. F/Sg. Brian Maxwell RCAF R/191140 POW injured and confined to hospital until liberation.