Flying
Officer William Anderson
Royal
Canadian Air Force
Son
of Simon Christian and Gonda Anderson. of Calgary, Alberta, Canada ,
age 25, died on 24-Mar-1945. He was based in Holland and was killed on
a search and destroy mission against enemy flak positions in Germany.
At the time of his death he was on his second tour with 65 missions
flown.
The
following entry is from 439's War Operations Record Book (Form 540): The
day was not without its sadness. We lost J36997 F/O Andy Anderson who
was on the bombing of Dingden, Germany as explained in the attached
541. He had done 65 sorties totalling 75:25 operational hours and
making a grand total of 501:00 flying hours.
The
following entry is from 439's War Operations Record Book (Form 541): Flight leader
J/36997 F/O W. "Andy" Anderson spotted some flak positions
so he called up the other two Typhoons and told them to follow him
down. F/O Hallford who was No. 2 tried hard to observe where the flak
was emanating from and took a squirt at some of the flashes coming
from the forest below. The next time he looked up, Andy was on his
back and heading earthward in a 20 degree dive from about 800 feet.
F/O Hallford lost sight of him in the haze and smoke so that we do not
know what happened to him.
Following
entry is from The
Canadian Virtual War Memorial website courtesy of
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
J/36997
F/O W. "Andy" Anderson is buried at REICHSWALD FOREST WAR
CEMETERY, Germany Grave Reference: 31. B. 18.
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