LAC. Wallace Jackson in North Africa and Italy with 70 Squadron, RAF, 1941-1944
 

 

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 Sergeant James G Smart and the loss of Wellington X LN336G

Contributed by Helen Sharp, with thanks to Osvaldo Giangiuli

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 Sgt Smart was the navigator of LN336 "G" in a 15 aircraft raid against a ball-bearing plant at Turin. The raid was unsuccessful, according to the Squadron record of events, due to poor weather and heavy cloud cover.  Two other Wellingtons were lost with their crews, failing to return to their base at Djedeida.

Osvaldo Giangiuli wrote in 2012:

Two years ago I found the crash site of an unknown aircraft.

Now I know that the aircraft was a Vickers Wellington (70 Sqdn  RAF) that crashed on November 25, 1943:

70 Squadron Wellington X    LN336G

 

F/O    R. C. Henderson 

F/Sgt   A. Huddlestone DFM 

F/O A. E. Shaw RCAF

Sgt  J. G. Smart

P/O  V. A. Murray RCAF (survivor)

 

Took off 19.51, Djedeida No.1, detailed as above. Crashed near Montcarne, Sicily.  F/O Shaw is buried in Agira Canadian War Cemetery, all the other dead in Catania War Cemetery. 

Op: Turin.

Only P/O Vernon A Murray RCAF (rear gunner) survived.

 
 
     

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