Davies, James Ivor (Flight Lieutenant)

Prisoner of War 1941-September-16

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Birth Date: unkown date

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Home: Bangor, Saskatchewan

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Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

51 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Swift And Sure

Base

RAF Dishforth

Rank

Flight Lieutenant

Position

Service Numbers

J/3767
PoW: 3790

Took off from Dishforth at 19:05 in Whitley Mark V (Sqn code: MH- Bomber Command) on an operation to Hamburg Germany.

Coned by searchlights, hit by flak and crashed at Kalenhof 500 metres south of Welle, Niedersachsen Germany.

Also held at Oflag XXlb, Schubin, Poland, and later at Stalag llla, Luckenwalde in 1945.

In Enemy Hands - Canadian Prisoners of War 1939-45
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