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24th March 1944 On this day:  Aircraft Lost  Aircraft Down  Four Lancasters Lost  Exercise  Visit  Radar training  Spitfire pilot taken PoW  Italy  On the March  At Rest  Assault beaten off  Reliefs  Objective Taken  Move back to Cornwall  Navigator survived crash  Move  GRU transferred to 162 Squadron  Raiders  False alarm  Poor Visibility  Supply Route  Detachment at Brindisi  Quiet day for recovery  Visit  Operation Varsity If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Remembering those who died this day. Bennett Philip Charles Knill. Sgt. (d.24th March 1944) Borrow George Henry. Capt. (d.24th March 1944) Faulkner Reginald James. (d.24th March 1944) Jarvis George Kitchener. WOII. (d.24th Mar 1944) Laing John Rollo. F/O (d.24th March 1944) Mitchell Samuel. Pte. (d.24th March 1944) Morgan Leonard Robert. Sgt. (d.24th March 1944) Salt C. A.. Sgt. (d.24th March 1944) Scott Gerald Eagleston. F/Sgt. (d.24th March 1944) Wadsworth Joseph. F/Sgt. (d.24th March 1944) Wingate Orde Charles. Maj.Gen. (d.24th March 1944) The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. If you would like to support us, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting and admin or this site will vanish from the web. 22nd April 2024 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. 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There are:25 items tagged 24th of March 1944 available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. Stories from 24th March 1944 Capt. George Henry Borrow. MC. British Army, Royal Sussex Regiment. (d.24th March 1944) George Borrow was the son of Edward and Alys Mable Constance Borrow, of Diss, Norfolk, England. He served as A.D.C. to Major General Orde Charles Wingate with the Chindits. He was killed in an aircrash, along with 8 others including British General Orde Charles Wingate, in India on 24th of March 1944. He was buried with the others in a mass grave in Section 12, Coll. grave 288 in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC. s flynn Add to this record. Maj.Gen. Orde Charles Wingate. DSO & 2 Bars.s British Army, Special Forces India Command. (d.24th March 1944) The son of Colonel George Wingate C.I.E. and Mary Ethel Stanley Wingate (nee Orde Browne), Orde Charles Wingate was husband of Lorna E. M. Wingate (nee Moncrieff Paterson), of Edinburgh, Scotland. He commanded a special force known as the "Chindits". Awarded the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal by the Royal Central Asian Society, 1943. While on an airplane flight, Wingate's Boeing B25 Mitchell plane crashed into the Burmese jungle. He and all his party were killed in the crash on 24 March 1944 and are buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, DC. s flynn Add to this record. Sgt. Leonard Robert Morgan. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 578 Squadron. (d.24th March 1944) My late uncle, Sgt W/Op/Air Morgan died on 24th March 1944. Paul/Cardiff Add to this record. F/O John Rollo Laing. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 514 Sqdn.. (d.24th March 1944) Lancaster LL625 C (Charlie) crashed in Germany on 24th/25th March 1944. This was the last major Berlin raid. There was one survivor: F/Sgt R.B. McAlister. The full crew were: F/Sgt. R.B. McAlister, RCAF, mid-upper gunner F/O J.R. Laing, RAFVR, pilot Sgt. A. Vickers, RAFVR, navigator F/Sgt J. Knights, RAFVR, bomb aimer F/Sgt. G.E. Scott, RAFVR, wop/airgunner Sgt. C.A. Salt, RAFVR, rear gunner Sgt. P.C.K. Bennett, RAFVR, flight engineer All the crew who died were buried in Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery. Add to this record. F/Sgt. Gerald Eagleston Scott. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 514 Sqdn.. (d.24th March 1944) Lancaster LL625 C (Charlie) crashed in Germany on 24th/25th March 1944. This was the last major Berlin raid. There was one survivor: F/Sgt R.B. McAlister. The full crew were: F/Sgt. R.B. McAlister, RCAF, mid-upper gunner F/O J.R. Laing, RAFVR, pilot Sgt. A. Vickers, RAFVR, navigator F/Sgt J. Knights, RAFVR, bomb aimer F/Sgt. G.E. Scott, RAFVR, wop/airgunner Sgt. C.A. Salt, RAFVR, rear gunner Sgt. P.C.K. Bennett, RAFVR, flight engineer All the crew who died were buried in Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery. Add to this record. Sgt. C. A. Salt. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 514 Sqdn.. (d.24th March 1944) Lancaster LL625 C (Charlie) crashed in Germany on 24th/25th March 1944. This was the last major Berlin raid. There was one survivor: F/Sgt R.B. McAlister. The full crew were: F/Sgt. R.B. McAlister, RCAF, mid-upper gunner F/O J.R. Laing, RAFVR, pilot Sgt. A. Vickers, RAFVR, navigator F/Sgt J. Knights, RAFVR, bomb aimer F/Sgt. G.E. Scott, RAFVR, wop/airgunner Sgt. C.A. Salt, RAFVR, rear gunner Sgt. P.C.K. Bennett, RAFVR, flight engineer All the crew who died were buried in Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery. Add to this record. Sgt. Philip Charles Knill Bennett. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 514 Sqdn.. (d.24th March 1944) Lancaster LL625 C (Charlie) crashed in Germany on 24th/25th March 1944. This was the last major Berlin raid. There was one survivor: F/Sgt R.B. McAlister. The full crew were: F/Sgt. R.B. McAlister, RCAF, mid-upper gunner F/O J.R. Laing, RAFVR, pilot Sgt. A. Vickers, RAFVR, navigator F/Sgt J. Knights, RAFVR, bomb aimer F/Sgt. G.E. Scott, RAFVR, wop/airgunner Sgt. C.A. Salt, RAFVR, rear gunner Sgt. P.C.K. Bennett, RAFVR, flight engineer All the crew who died were buried in Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery. Add to this record. F/Sgt. Joseph Wadsworth. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 103 Sqdn.. (d.24th March 1944) I am researching information pertaining to a raid on Berlin on 24th/25th March 1944. My grandfather, RAFVR Flt Sgt Jo Wadsworth, was lost on this mission. He was in Lancaster Squadron 103. Wayne Jones Add to this record. WOII. George Kitchener Jarvis. Royal Canadian Air Force, 407 Squadron. (d.24th Mar 1944) George Jarvis, flew as a Pilot with 407 Squadron. His aircraft did not return from a coastal patrol over the North Sea. He and the other crew members were presumed dead on 24th of March1944. George was the dearly loved foster son of Ethel Clarke and foster brother of Muriel and Gordon Clarke. His memory is sustained by their children and grand children. Gordon Jackson Add to this record. Pte. Samuel Mitchell. British Army, 2nd Btn. Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. (d.24th March 1944) Samuel Mitchell was my Great-Grandfather. He died the very day my Grandmother was born. He is buried in The Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery. I would love to find out more about him. Add to this record.

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