CREW MEMBER PROFILE |
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Surname: |
ALCORN |
First Name/s: |
James William |
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Service No/s: |
421873 |
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RAAF |
Branch: |
Pilot |
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Awards: |
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SERVICE RECORDS |
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Event |
Aircraft Flown |
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24 Apr 1942 |
No.1 Initial Training School, Somers, Victoria |
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15 Aug 1942 |
Promoted to Leading Aircraftsman (LAC) |
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21 Sep 1942 |
No.11 Elementary Flying Training School, Benalla, Victoria |
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24 Sep 1942 |
No.11 Elementary Flying Training School, Essendon, Victoria - 'special' detachment |
Tiger Moth |
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23 Oct 1942 |
Returned to unit at 11 EFTS, Benalla, Victoria |
Tiger Moth |
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20 Dec 1942 |
No.6 Service Flying Training School, Mallala, South Australia |
Anson |
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08 Apr 1943 |
Awarded Pilot's Flying Badge and promoted to Sergeant |
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09 Apr 1943 |
No.2 Embarkation Depot, Bradfield Park, Sydney, New South Wales |
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05 May 1943 |
Embarked Brisbane, Queensland (vessel tbc). Probably sailed to the US then crossed by train to embark on another ship in (probably) New York for the UK. |
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07 Jul 1943 |
No.11 (RAAF) Personnel Despatch and Reception Centre, Brighton, Sussex |
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16 Aug 1943 |
No.15 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit, Andover, Hampshire |
Oxford |
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12 Sep 1943 |
Attached to 15 (P) AFU's satellite airfield at Ramsbury, Wiltshire |
Oxford |
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08 Oct 1943 |
Promoted to Flight Sergeant |
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12 Dec 1943 |
Attached to RAF Wymeswold, Leicestershire |
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14 Dec 1943 |
No.50 (Training) Group Pool (location tbc) |
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21 Dec 1943 |
Attached to 15 (P) AFU's satellite airfield at Castle Combe, Wiltshire |
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25 Jan 1944 |
Set Rank from Flight Record |
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21 Apr 1944 |
No.11 Base, Lindholme, Yorkshire for No.1656, 1662 or 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit, and possibly No.1 Lancaster Finishing School |
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22 Apr 1944 |
No. 1656, 1662, or 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit (tbc) |
Halifax / Lancaster |
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10 May 1944 |
Discharged on appointment to commission. |
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11 May 1944 |
Commissioned as a Pilot Officer |
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01 Jun 1944 |
No.1 Lancaster Finishing School, Hemswell, Lincolnshire (tbc, precise date tbc). If he flew Lancasters at HCU he would not have gone to the LFS. |
Lancaster |
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09 Jun 1944 |
No.576 Squadron, 'B' Flight, Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire |
Lancaster |
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25 Jun 1944 |
Lost in operations to Flers in JB460, UL-V2 |
Lancaster |
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576 Squadron FLYING RECORDS |
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Date |
Aircraft |
Code |
Flight Details |
T/O |
Land |
Flt Time |
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25 Jun 1944 |
JB460 |
UL-V2 |
FLERS |
0150 |
FTR |
uk |
P1 Plt Off J.W. Alcorn RAAF |
NOTES: |
Target: V1 'flying bomb' launch site. Load: 18x 500lb bombs. It is thought the aircraft was attacked and destroyed over the English Channel, about 10km south of Le Touquet. The claim was made by Oblt Ernst-Georg Drunkler of 1/NJG5 at a height of 2,800 metres (about 10,000 feet) and at a time of 0345. Neither the crew nor aircraft were were ever found. The crew are all remembered at the Runnymede Air Forces Memorial, |
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