Brennan, William Thomas (Flying Officer)

Prisoner of War 1945-February-21

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Service

RCAF

Unit

77 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Esse Potius Quam Videri To be, rather than to seem

Base

RAF Full Sutton

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

J/39638

Target
Google MapWorms Germany

Took off from Full Sutton at 16:45 in Halifax Mk III (Sqn code: KN-Z Bomber Command) on an operation to Worms Germany.

Believed crashed at Horchheim (now a suburb of Worms south-west of the city centre).

Killed: Pilot Officer Lawrence William Brennan RCAF J/95242 KIA Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery grave XI. D. 4. Holland. Pilot Officer Jack Macdonald Jones RCAF J/95350 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Joint grave 17. A. 16-17. Germany. Sergeant Stanley William Lowe RAF KIA Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery grave VI. G. 2. Flying Officer Jack Ross McCollum RCAF J/41476 pilot KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Joint grave 17. A. 16-17. Pilot Officer Robert Andrew Paul RCAF J/95472 KIA Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery grave XI. D. 5.

POWs includes Brennan: Flying Officer Ralph Macintyre Aylesworth RCAF J/42769 POW Stalag 11B Fallingbostel.

Crew or Other Personnel

Halifax NP967

Flying Officer William Thomas Brennan RCAF

Flying Officer Brennan, William Thomas (RCAF)
Pilot
Prisoner of War
1945-February-21
cemetery unknown

Flying Officer Murray Norman Firth RCAF

Flying Officer Firth, Murray Norman (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1945-February-21
Soldaten Friedhof Alliierte Piloten 2WK, Am Englischen Friedhof, Kamp-Lintfort, Germany

Flying Officer K W Joy RCAF

Flying Officer Joy, K W (RCAF)

Prisoner of War
1945-February-21
cemetery unknown

Pilot Officer Kenneth Creighton McKeown RCAF

Pilot Officer McKeown, Kenneth Creighton (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1945-February-21
Runnymede Memorial Surrey, UK