D'Andrea, D A (Flying Officer)

Evader 1944-05-09

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Birth Date: unkown date

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Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

432 (B) Sqn- Squadron
Saeviter Ad Lucem Ferociously toward the light

Base

RAF East Moor

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

J/28953

Took off from East Moor at 01:22 in Halifax Mk III (Sqn code QO-L Bomber Command) tasked to bomb the rail yards at Haine-Saint-Pierre Belgium.

Shot down in flames from 6000 feet by a night-fighter and crashed near the River Lys at Posthoorn (West-Vlaanderen) roughly 2 km SW of Courtrai.

Killed:Pilot Officer Kenneth Laverne Cannings RCAF J/90920 KIA Wevelgem Communal Cemetery Grave E. 463.Flying Officer Thomas Russell Martin RCAF J/12197 pilot KIA Wevelgem Communal Cemetery Grave E. 462.Sergeant Philip George Mellor RAF 2211651 KIA Wevelgem Communal Cemetery Grave E. 461.

POWs:Sergeant Wilburt Lynn Cantlon RCAF R/205472 POW Stalag Luft L3, Sagan & Belaria, POW# 4908.Sergeant Kenneth Lloyd McCartney RCAF R/209139 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan & Belaria, POW# 4916.

Evaders includes D'Andrea:Flying Officer L Panzer RCAF J/27423 Evader.

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