HF596   AS-A Crew

L to R     Sgt. R. Carlon - AB,   Flt. Off R. Swallow - Nav,     Flt Sgt. A. P. Bates - Pilot,     Unknown,     Sgt. A. Bromby - WOP

Front     Sgt. G.W.D. Dean - AG

 

                                             

                          Robert P. Swallow                           Ronald Carlon                                Arthur Bromby

 

 

           

       Albert Peter Bates

 

* Currently there are no know photographs of G W D Dean other than the group picture *

 

Order of Battle for AS-A    HF596

  Date                                                                                          Location

 

18/19 July 1943                                                                       Gardening (Artichokes)

24/25 July 1943                                                                       Hamburg

25/26 July 1943                                                                       Essen

12/13 August 1943 - for this mission the crew flew aircraft HF570              Gardening (Artichokes)

15/16 August 1943 - crew missing - nothing heard after take-off                       Gardening (Nectarines I)

post script...
On 15/16.8.1943 two Wellingtons were claimed over the North Sea by Leutnant Heinz Grimm of IV Gruppe NJG1. It appears HF596 was one of these aircraft.  Leutnant Grimm claimed 29 aircraft downed with 27 of these confirmed.  He was shot down by German flak over Bremen 8/9.10.1943, bailed out badly burned and died 13.10.1943. Other crew Ofw. Walter Czybulka, bailed out, Uffz. Werner Behrendt, bailed out.
 
Aircraft Identification: Bf110G-4 5346  G9+CE                                              
                                                                                                                     (Picture of similar aircraft below)
 
Sources: II/NJG2-IV/NJG1 Abschuss Tafel
             Abschusskcommission listings   
             Private sources in Germany

 

 

                            

 

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