Anderson, Phillip James (Flying Officer)

Evader 1944-August-05

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Birth Date: 1909

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Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

148 (SD) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
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Base

RAF Campo Casale, Brindisi, Italy

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Navigator

Service Numbers

C/11369

Unvetted Source MI9 nos 2500 to 2999

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148 Squadron (Trusty) RAF, Campo Casale, Brindisi, Italy. Halifax II aircraft JP 162 FS-S was returning from a successful operation to drop supplies for the Polish Home Army at Miechoiwa near Krakow, Poland when it was attacked and shot down by a ME-110 night fighter flown by Fw Helmut Konter of INJG 100. The Halifax crashed near the village of Wojnarowa, Poland with the loss of three air crew

Sergeant C Aspinall (RAFVR), Flight Lieutenant JG McCall (RAFVR) and Sergeant JFC Rae (RAFVR) were all killed in action

Flying Officer PJ Anderson (RCAF), Sergeant RO Peterson (RCAF), Sergeant WC Underwood (RAFVR) and Sergeant A Jolly (RAFVR) survived and all evaded capture and joined the Partisans until liberated and returned to the UK in March of 1945

Flights of the Forgotten, Special Duties Operations in World War Two by KA Merrick, page 208

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Unvetted Source 148 Squadron Halifax II JP162 FS-S Fl/Lt McCall Wojnarowa Poland...

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Unvetted Source Aircraft-lost-on-Allied-Forces-Special-Duty-Operations.pdf

Unvetted Source 75 rocznica zesterzelenia samolotu Halifax JP 162 Korzenna - YouTube