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Flight Sergeant James Currie Wood

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Flight Sergeant James Currie Wood

Birth
Invergowrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Death
25 May 1943 (aged 24)
Melderslo, Horst aan de Maas Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands
Burial
Nijmegen, Nijmegen Municipality, Gelderland, Netherlands Add to Map
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24. A. 7.
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James Currie Wood, Son of Charles Thornton Wood and Flora Smith Wood; husband of Jessie Ann Wood, of Invergowrie, Angus. James was served with the RAF in WWII and lost his life when his plane, Lancaster W4998 100 Squadron crashed at the Boomsweg Melderslo Limburg Holland... Hit by the 1., 3. & 4./gemischte Flak-Abteilung 591.

Target: Düsseldorf

Takeoff time: 23:54
Crew:
Pilot F/Sgt. A.T.W. Moore 413106 RNzAF Jonkerbos 24 A 8
Flight engineer W/O J.S. Wilkins 940090 RAF Survived POW
Navigator Sgt. D.C. Stone 1451978 RAF Jonkerbos 24 A 6
Bomb aimer F/Lt. S.W.J. Coventry 130536 RAF Survived evader, POW (arrested in Paris 6 Jun 43)
Wo ag F/Sgt. J.C. Wood 755138 RAF Jonkerbos 24 A 7
Air gunner Sgt. M. Keogh 1586059 RAF Jonkerbos 24 A 5
Air gunner F/Sgt. L.C. Maunsell 414318 RNzAF Jonkerbos 24 A 4
James Currie Wood, Son of Charles Thornton Wood and Flora Smith Wood; husband of Jessie Ann Wood, of Invergowrie, Angus. James was served with the RAF in WWII and lost his life when his plane, Lancaster W4998 100 Squadron crashed at the Boomsweg Melderslo Limburg Holland... Hit by the 1., 3. & 4./gemischte Flak-Abteilung 591.

Target: Düsseldorf

Takeoff time: 23:54
Crew:
Pilot F/Sgt. A.T.W. Moore 413106 RNzAF Jonkerbos 24 A 8
Flight engineer W/O J.S. Wilkins 940090 RAF Survived POW
Navigator Sgt. D.C. Stone 1451978 RAF Jonkerbos 24 A 6
Bomb aimer F/Lt. S.W.J. Coventry 130536 RAF Survived evader, POW (arrested in Paris 6 Jun 43)
Wo ag F/Sgt. J.C. Wood 755138 RAF Jonkerbos 24 A 7
Air gunner Sgt. M. Keogh 1586059 RAF Jonkerbos 24 A 5
Air gunner F/Sgt. L.C. Maunsell 414318 RNzAF Jonkerbos 24 A 4

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