Wyatt, George Michael

Killed in Action 1940-06-30

Birth Date: 1919

Born:

Son of George Matthew and Amy Rowena Wyatt

Home: Helsby, Cheshire, England

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RAF

Unit

61 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Per Purum Tonantes Thundering through the clear air

Base

RAF Hemswell

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

40453

Home

Helsby, Cheshire, England

First Burial

Cuxhaven (Brockswalde) Cemetery, Lower Saxony, Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

International Bomber Command Centre

www.findagrave.com

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Hampden P4356

Bombing 1940-June-29 to 1940-June-30

61 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Hemswell

61(Hull's own) Squadron RAF (Pur purum tonantes) RAF Hemswell. Hampden I aircraft P 4356 QR-S was shot down by a marine flak battery during an operation against targets in Geestacht, Germany. The Hampden crashed into shallow water just off the coast between Spieka Neufeld and Neuwerk, Germany

Sergeant R Burnett (RAF) and Flying Officer GM Wyatt (RAF) were killed in action

Pilot Officer LS Adams (RAF)(Can) and Sergeant HG Hill (RAF) survived and both were taken as Prisoners of War

General [Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database]...

General Crash of a Handley Page HP52 Hampden I off Spieka: 2 killed I...

General World War 2 - RAF No 61 Squadron, May/June 1940

General Flugzeugabshusse und Abstruze um Cuxhaven im WW 2

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Findagrave.com

Hampden P4356

Male Head

Flight Lieutenant Adams, Lloyd Stanley (RAF)
Observer
Prisoner of War
1940-June-30
cemetery unknown

Sergeant Burnett, Ralph (RAF)
Air Gunner (Rear)
Killed in Action
1940-June-30
cemetery unknown

Male Head

Sergeant Hill, Harold George (RAF)
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Prisoner of War
1940-June-30
cemetery unknown

Flying Officer Wyatt, George Michael (RAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1940-June-30
cemetery unknown

Handley Page Hampden

(RCAF Photo via Chris Charland)(Source Harold A Skaarup Web Page)
Handley Page Hampden (Serial No. P5428), of No. 32 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Patricia Bay, British Columbia, in the torpedo-bomber training role between May 1942 and February 1944.

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Handley Page developed a modern stressed-skin mid-wing monoplane, powered by Bristol Pegasus radial air cooled engines, with its first flight in 1936. It had the most advanced wings available at the time, giving it a remarkably low landing speed of 73 mph for an aircraft of its size, with a top speed of 265 mph. The Hampden had a short, narrow but tall main fuselage with a very slender tail unit. This configuration led to the nicknames "Flying Panhandle" and "Flying Suitcase". At the end of the war, no complete or partial Hampden aircraft were retained for museum display.

The Hampden served in the early stages of the war, bearing the brunt of the early bombing war over Europe, taking part in the first night raid on Berlin and in the first 1000-bomber raid on Cologne.In Canada, Hampdens were built by six companies that formed Associated Aircraft. There were three in Ontario and three in Quebec, hence they were identified as the Ontario Group and Quebec Group. They supplied all the the components to the two assembly plants. The Ontario Group's assembly plant was at the Malton Airport, while the Quebec group's assembly plant was at the St. Hubert Airport. Canadian Museum of Flight and Harold A Skaarup web page

YouTube Handley Page Hampden in Flight