CREW MEMBER PROFILE |
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Surname: |
ALLEN |
First Name/s: |
Harold John |
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Service No/s: |
2223139 |
Service: |
RAFVR |
Branch: |
Air Gunner |
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Awards: |
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SERVICE RECORDS |
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Date |
Event |
Aircraft Flown |
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22 Dec 1943 |
Transferred to the Reserve |
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27 Mar 1944 |
Called up and posted to No.3 Air Crew Reception Centre at St.John's Wood, London |
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15 Apr 1944 |
No.1 Elementary Air Gunners School, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. |
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21 Apr 1944 |
No.81 Initial Training Wing, Bridgnorth, Shropshire (on change of unit name from 1 EAGS) |
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30 Jun 1944 |
Promoted to LAC (pressumably on completion of ITW) (precise date tbc) |
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01 Jul 1944 |
No.12 Air Gunners School, Bishops Court, Co. Down, Northern Ireland |
Anson |
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19 Aug 1944 |
Awarded Air Gunners (AG) Badge and promoted to Sergeant. |
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19 Sep 1944 |
No. 84 Operational Training Unit, Desborough, Northamptonshire. Here he would have been crewed up with the Hogg crew. |
Wellington |
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15 Dec 1944 |
No.3 Air Crew School, Gamston, Nottinghamshire |
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19 Jan 1945 |
No.71 Base, Lindholme, Yorkshire for onward posting to Heavy Conversion Unit and possibly Lancaster Finishing School |
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20 Jan 1945 |
No. 1656 Heavy Conversion Unit (tbc) |
Halifax / Lancaster tbc |
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05 Mar 1945 |
No.1 Lancaster Finishing School, Hemswell, Lincolnshire (tbc - only if he did not fly Lancasters at HCU) |
Lancaster |
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13 Mar 1945 |
No.576 Squadron, 'A' Flight, Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire |
Lancaster |
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04 Apr 1945 |
Set Rank from Flight Record |
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05 Apr 1945 |
Lost in operations (Lutzkendorf) |
Lancaster |
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576 Squadron FLYING RECORDS |
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Date |
Aircraft |
Code |
Flight Details |
T/O |
Land |
Flt Time |
Crew |
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31 Mar 1945 |
ME492 |
UL-J2 |
HAMBURG |
0625 |
1140 |
5h15 |
P1 Sgt D.H. Hogg |
NOTES: |
Blohm & Voss U-boat building and engineering yards. Load: 12x 1000lb, 3x 500lb bombs. |
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03 Apr 1945 |
LM594 |
UL-A2 |
NORDHAUSEN |
1325 |
2005 |
6h40 |
P1 Sgt D.H. Hogg |
NOTES: |
Target: SS barracks, bridges and a V2 rocket factory. Load: 11x 1000lb, 2x 500lb bombs. |
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04 Apr 1945 |
ME671 |
UL-Z2 |
LUTZKENDORF |
nk |
FTR |
uk |
P1 D.H. Hogg |
NOTES: |
Target: Wintershall AG synthetic oil refinery. Load: 1x 4000lb 'cookie', 10x 500lb bombs. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off but it seems it was hit by the bombs from above whilst over the target which tore off one of the port engines. The aircraft was then possibly attacked by a Ju-88 on the return. Eventually the skipper was able to maintain controlled flight for a short while before crash landing. The other crewmembers survived the landing but were all captured after some six days on the run and taken POW. The crew searched for Harold but failed to find him. It would appear that his parachute failed to open. The full story is recounted below. |
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PERSONAL INFORMATION |
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