Birth Date: 1924-January-27
Born: Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Home: Winnipeg Manitoba
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
49 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Cave Canem Beware of the dog
Base
RAF Fiskerton
Rank
Flying Officer
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
J/86384
Winnipeg Manitoba
Revigny-Sur-Ornain France
Flying Officer Roy MacLean Deacon (RCAF) survived and evaded briefly, only to be captured 1944-07-20. He was wounded and sent to the Hospital at Chalon-en-Champagne, France from where he was liberated by US troops a month later and returned to the UK
Footprints on the Sands of Time, RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of War in Germany1039-45 by Oliver Clutton-Brock, page 279
49 Squadron RAF (Cave canem) RAF Fiskerton. Lancaster III aircraft JB 473 EA-W was hit by flak and then shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptman Fritz Berger of Stab II/NJG2 during a night operation to bomb the rail marshalling yards at Revigny-sur-Ornain, France. The Lancaster crashed at Vassimont-et-Chapelaine (Marne area) roughly 6 km NW of Sommesous, France
Mid-Upper Air Gunner, Pilot Officer Albert John Rammage (RCAF) was killed in action
Pilot, Flying Officer Roy MacLean Deacon (RCAF) survived, wounded and was captured. Taken to a French hospital Deacon was liberated by advancing US troops
Flight Sergeant Allan Russell Harpell (RCAF), Sergeant Donald Wilson (RCAF), Sergeant John Andrew Diley (RAFVR), Sergeant William Fortune (RAFVR) and Sergeant Harold Sharp (RAFVR) all survived and avoided capture as Evaders
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 3 12 May - 23 July by Theo Boiten, page115
42 Lancasters from 408, 419, and 428 squadrons were joined by 111 Halifaxes from 420, 424, 425, 426, 427, 429, 432, and 433 squadrons on an attack on the oil plant Wesseling. The crews were over the target at between 11,000and 14,000 feet, releasing 1,286,000 lbs of high explosives. According to reports, the weather was clear and severe damage was done to this facility. Richard Koval (6bombergroup.ca)
49 Squadron RAF (Cave canem) RAF Fiskerton. Lancaster III aircraft JB 473 EA-W was hit by flak and then shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptman Fritz Berger of Stab II/NJG2 during a night operation to bomb the rail marshalling yards at Revigny-sur-Ornain, France. The Lancaster crashed at Vassimont-et-Chapelaine (Marne area) roughly 6 km NW of Sommesous, France
Mid-Upper Air Gunner, Pilot Officer Albert John Rammage (RCAF) was killed in action
Pilot, Flying Officer Roy MacLean Deacon (RCAF) survived, wounded and was captured. Taken to a French hospital Deacon was liberated by advancing US troops
Flight Sergeant Allan Russell Harpell (RCAF), Sergeant Donald Wilson (RCAF), Sergeant John Andrew Diley (RAFVR), Sergeant William Fortune (RAFVR) and Sergeant Harold Sharp (RAFVR) all survived and avoided capture as Evaders
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 3 12 May - 23 July by Theo Boiten, page115
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