Coombs, James Reginald (Flying Officer)

Prisoner of War 1943-September-24

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Service

RCAF

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

Base

RAF Elvington

Rank

Flying Officer

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J/22471
PoW: 2608

Target
Google MapMannheim Germany

Took off at 20:43 from Elvington in Halifax Mk II (Sqn code KN-L Bomber Command) on an operation to Mannheim Germany

Aircraft was coned by searchlights and shot down by a night fighter

Killed: Sergeant George Bown RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 21. B. 4-10. Sergeant Cecil Dickinson RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 21. B. 4-10. Sergeant William Joseph Grant RAF pilot KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 21. B. 4-10. Sergeant Leonard Francis Manley RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 21. B. 1.

POWs includes Coombs: Sergeant Indrason Pydah Murty RAF POW Stalag 357 Kopernikus. Sergeant Robert Ritchie Anderson Little RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia.