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I can’t confirm his aircraft is in this photo, but nice photo of Canadian Lancaster lined up in England prior to their departure to Canada

Hi I am the daughter of Samuel Davidson who was in the rear gunner position when the Lancaster flown by Acree crashed in the Azores. My father was in the water walking along the wing and then hanging onto a tire. I heard for three hours before rescued by boat. The rest of the crew were able to get ...

Hi Temujin, Sorry for the delay in replying. Giving the families some details regarding the operations their relatives were on when they were lost, injured or taken PoW is part of the Chronology too. Which is why I have a brief synopsis of Bomber Command operations for each operation, culled from M...

Hi Temujin, Impressive. I've never seen a post operation report before. Paul Wetaskwin Some of them have the actually flight route of the various bomber streams to targets…….their not like the actual navigation map that the bomber crews used, but a small (one page sometimes) map of the route. These...

Just a follow up on where his aircraft crashed (and crew reported by Germans as “date and location” of death. The record I sent you indicates their bodies were “found” in Delmenhorst, which is a location right next to their target of Bremen. Google Maps included IMG_3347.jpeg IMG_3364.jpeg And it sa...

Your Welcome Paul Of course, once I get going, I keep researching until I can find anything and everything………so this is info that you may already have and know, but scince I found it, thought I would post it Operations Record Book IMG_3356.jpeg Aircraft Loss Card (sorry, hard to read) IMG_3357.jpeg ...

And I think this is his fathers arrival documents into Canada. I haven’t found anything on when he left Canada yet

And I believe this is his Parents grave, where he also has a marker

Found these records. 1921 Census seems to indicate he was born in Canada, and the record indicates his father and mother arrived in Canada in 1920

Good Morning, I know that this procedure is possible, but I am a French citizen with no family ties to this person. This prevents me from making official requests. And the unofficial requests are not effective, I have never received a return for a file made recently. Doryann I am in contact with th...