Panel 292 at the Air Forces Memorial Runnymede with names added after its dedication in 1953 including War Correspondents
RAF archive: "The United States Strategic Air Forces Headquarters announced on Saturday that Guy Byam, a war reporter is missing since flying on a daylight bombing attack against Berlin on Feb 3. The Flying Fortress in which Byam flew to make a recording for the was struck by anti-aircraft fire over Berlin. It lagged behind the rest of the formation, and later another Fortress reported hearing radio distress signals in the North Sea off the Frisian Islands. Byam's aircraft has not been heard from since. Byam had parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, and jumped again with the 101st British Airborne Army at Arnhem, escaping by swimming the Rhine. He flew with Bomber Command in an attack on the Tirpitz, and survived the sinking of Jervis Bay after it was torpedoed." Fred George Nancarrow is Author of "Glasgow's Fighter Squadron" & was a reporter for The Glasgow Herald and War Correspondent. Newbattle AT War says: "Two weeks later on, the 5th of September, 1942 Sunderland W4032 took off from Oban on a convoy protection mission, onboard were were 10 crew and a journalist Fred NanCarrow from the Glasgow Herald, much has been made of NanCarrow’s presence and some say he was investigating the death of the Duke of Kent. NanCarrow was mad keen on aircraft and had only recently written a book celebrating the work of 602 City of Glasgow Squadron, his family stated he wanted to join the RAF but was rejected as ... At the Sunderland set down in Vane Bay but hit a rock which ripped the bottom out of the aircraft causing it to start ...The bodies of Pilot Officer Robert Hicks and Fred NanCarrow were never recovered." The memorial commemorates 20,000 airmen and airwomen of the Commonwealth Air Forces who, during the 1939-1945 War, died over north-western and central Europe, the British Isles, and the eastern Atlantic, while in any of the Air Forces Commands, and have no known grave.
Size: 3375px × 5063px
Location: Runnymede Egham Surrey UK
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