Pickens, William Goode (Flying Officer)

Prisoner of War 1943-May-13

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Home: San Antonio, Texas, USA

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Service

RCAF

Unit

50 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Sic Fidem Servamus Thus we keep faith

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Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

J/17387
PoW: 1196

Took off from Skellingthorpe at 21:59 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code: VN- Bomber Command) on an operation to Plzen (Pilsen) Czeckslovakia.

Shot down by a night fighter and crashed at Messingen, 7 km ESE of Lingen, Ems, Germany.

Killed: Warrant Officer Class 2 William Bruce Nichol RCAF R/114904 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 15. F. 12. Sergeant William Augustus Roberts RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 15. F. 11.

POWs: Flying Officer Thomas Royds RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria. Pilot Officer Michael Hall RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria. Sergeant William Goode Pickens RCAF R/number - J/17387 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria. Sergeant John Gordon Hanby RAF POW Stalag 357 Kopernikus. Sergeant C Taylor RAF POW camp not listed.

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