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9th June 1944On this day:
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Remembering those who died this day.
- Ashburner Joan Margaret. Ldg Wren (d.9th Jun 1944)
- Batchelor Margaret Elsie Claire. Ldg Wren (d.9th Jun 1944)
- Dowden Walter Roy. L/Sgt. (d.9th Jun 1944)
- Holenchuk William. P/O. (d.9th Jun 1944)
- Nelson Arthur. Spr. (d.9th June 1944)
- Sales Albert George Sidney. Pte. (d.9th June 1944)
- Stromberg Gordon. Flt/Sgt. (d.9th June 1944)
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Stories from 9th June 1944
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Flt/Sgt. Gordon Stromberg. RAF, 514 Squadron. (d.9th June 1944) My grandmother died not so long ago, and although I had always know about my great uncle who died during the war, it wasn't until clearing out the house that my mother and I came across his flight log book. My great uncle was Flt/Sgt Gordon Stromberg No1386539 a w/op. From his log book he was posted to Waterbeach on November 1943. His first flight was on a Lancaster C on the 25th of November 1943 with no 1678 otu and flew ops with 514 Squadron. His first op was on the 29th of December 1943 to Berlin in a Lancaster S which ditched in the North Sea. He flew various other ops, mostly in C, until he was shot down on 7th June 1944 and died as a POW on 9th June 1944.
I am trying to get as much information as possible as we were always told he died with his aircraft until his log book indicated he died two days later as a POW.
I would welcome any information that anyone may have or advice on how I might proceed further. It would be great to piece together this family mystery.
Chris Wortley
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Spr. Arthur Nelson. British Army, 614 Road Construction Company Royal Engineers. (d.9th June 1944) My grandfather Sapper 1912884 Arthur Nelson served with 614 Road Construction Royal Engineers and is buried in Bayeaux Cemetery in Normandy. Unfortunately, due to the loss of my father, we have no knowledge of events leading up to his death on 9th June 1944.
If anyone can help me piece together anything on the events leading up to this it would be of great help. Andrew Nelson
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P/O. William Holenchuk. Royal Canadian Air Force, No. 426 Squadron. (d.9th Jun 1944) William Holenchuk, my great-uncle, was born on 12th April 1919 at Gonor, Manitoba, Canada and was the son of George and Sofie (nee Bloshot) Holenchuk. His parents appear to have both been born in the Bukovina area of Romania/Ukraine (Austria at the time) and had both emigrated to Canada. His mother died in 1928 and his father re-married the following year. William attended school in Manitoba but then moved to Ontario. As a young man he undertook various jobs including truck driving, gold mining, and latterly at a nickel mine at Sudbury, Ontario. He married Annie Polesky and the couple had two children.
William also undertook a pre-enlistment pilot/observer WETP course at the Ontario Training College in Hamilton in early 1942. He then enlisted for RCAF service in Hamilton on 6th of April 1942, and after training in Canada he was awarded his air observer's badge (after bomb aimer training) on 19th of March 1943. He arrived in the UK in the summer of 1943, and following training at 4 (O)AFU, 22 OTU, 1666 HCU and 1679 CF he was posted to 426 Squadron on 4th February 1944. He received a commission on 21st March 1944.
On the night of 8th of June 1944, No. 426 Squadron took off to bomb railway facilities at Mayenne, France. The mission was successful, but upon returning home visibility became very poor and the Squadron had difficulty locating their airbase at RAF Linton on Ouse. They finally located the airbase, but shortly after 04.00am P/O Holenchuk’s bomber (Halifax LW598), nearly out of fuel, was attempting an emergency landing when one of the bomber’s engines caught fire, causing the pilot to lose control of the aircraft. The bomber crashed into some houses in a village near the airbase and all but two of the aircrew, including William, were killed.
William was my grandmother's brother. They were very close and it broke her heart when he was killed. She never really talked about him, and it wasn't until after she died that I knew she had a second brother in the war. Jeffrey Mosher
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