Service Details
Name:
 LEO
Given Name:
 ARTHUR JOHN OWEN
Initials:
 A J O
Service No:
 778694
Rank:
 Warrant Officer
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force
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Unit:
 35 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-08-20
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Date of Birth:
 1922-04-07
Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Killed in air raid, when his working party was attacked from the air, in first bombing raid of IG Farben Monowitz-Auschwitz
Additional
Information:
Shot down as air gunner Handley Page Halifax Mk II W1226, Outward-bound, the aircraft was attacked by night fighter pilot Feldwebel Herbert Altner of the 5./NJG 3, who was flying Bf 110 D5+CN from Schleswig airfield in Germany. A fire started at the rear end of the fuselage and at 00:08 it crashed to the ground in a field belonging to ?Ladegarden? farm near Sonderborg, 19 August 1942. Survived the crash and was captured, interrogated and imprisoned (Stalag VIII-B). RAF Number: Enlistments in Rhodesia in June 1940
Commemoration
Country:
 Poland
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Cemetery:
 KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 1. C. 12.

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