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P/O Charles Trask Beech

Royal Canadian Air Force 434 Sqdn.

(d.17th June 1944)

P/O Charles Trask Beech was an airgunner of Halifax bomber LK792. The Halifax was shot down by a nightfighter on 16th/17th June 1944 while raiding Sterkrade. The full crew were:

  • P/O Philip Alan Kingston, RCAF, Air bomber
  • F/O William Melvin McQueen, RCAF, Pilot
  • F/O Douglas Fraser McAllister, RCAF, Navigator
  • P/O Mike Habiluk, RCAF, Airgunner
  • P/O Charles Trask Beech, RCAF, Airgunner
  • P/O Arthur Warrington, RAF, Wop/Airgunner
  • /O William Gordon Pearcey, RAFVR, Flt. Engineer

    Update

    There were no survivors and the crew were buried at Ede, 10 miles from where they came down at Otterlo. RCAF crew members were later reburied in Groesbeek Canadian Cemetery.(Dick)



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