Son of Thomas Tustin and Gladys Fox Tustin.
Pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WW II.
He flew twin-engined Bristol Beaufighters for the famed 404 Squadron based at R.A.F. Dallachy Airfield, Scotland. The 404 Squadron was known as the "Buffalo" Squadron due to the distinctive buffalo head in the center of the unit patch.
Killed in Action; non-combat.
Extract from 404 Squadron operational records, March 1945:
"The squadron suffered another loss on 6 March when F/O W. A. Tustin and his navigator Wettlaufer were killed in a flying accident. The crew were participating in a fighter affiliation exercise four miles north of the control tower at Dallachy, two miles off the beach in Spey Bay. The aircraft was seen to turn over on its back and dive steeply into the water. A destroyer was nearby at the time and launched boats but neither of the crew was ever recovered."
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The Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede commemorates the names of over 20,000 airmen who were lost in the Second World War during operations from bases in the United Kingdom and North and Western Europe and who have no known graves.
Pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WW II.
He flew twin-engined Bristol Beaufighters for the famed 404 Squadron based at R.A.F. Dallachy Airfield, Scotland. The 404 Squadron was known as the "Buffalo" Squadron due to the distinctive buffalo head in the center of the unit patch.
Killed in Action; non-combat.
Extract from 404 Squadron operational records, March 1945:
"The squadron suffered another loss on 6 March when F/O W. A. Tustin and his navigator Wettlaufer were killed in a flying accident. The crew were participating in a fighter affiliation exercise four miles north of the control tower at Dallachy, two miles off the beach in Spey Bay. The aircraft was seen to turn over on its back and dive steeply into the water. A destroyer was nearby at the time and launched boats but neither of the crew was ever recovered."
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The Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede commemorates the names of over 20,000 airmen who were lost in the Second World War during operations from bases in the United Kingdom and North and Western Europe and who have no known graves.
Son of Thomas Tustin and Gladys Fox Tustin.
Pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WW II.
He flew twin-engined Bristol Beaufighters for the famed 404 Squadron based at R.A.F. Dallachy Airfield, Scotland. The 404 Squadron was known as the "Buffalo" Squadron due to the distinctive buffalo head in the center of the unit patch.
Killed in Action; non-combat.
Extract from 404 Squadron operational records, March 1945:
"The squadron suffered another loss on 6 March when F/O W. A. Tustin and his navigator Wettlaufer were killed in a flying accident. The crew were participating in a fighter affiliation exercise four miles north of the control tower at Dallachy, two miles off the beach in Spey Bay. The aircraft was seen to turn over on its back and dive steeply into the water. A destroyer was nearby at the time and launched boats but neither of the crew was ever recovered."
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The Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede commemorates the names of over 20,000 airmen who were lost in the Second World War during operations from bases in the United Kingdom and North and Western Europe and who have no known graves.
Pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WW II.
He flew twin-engined Bristol Beaufighters for the famed 404 Squadron based at R.A.F. Dallachy Airfield, Scotland. The 404 Squadron was known as the "Buffalo" Squadron due to the distinctive buffalo head in the center of the unit patch.
Killed in Action; non-combat.
Extract from 404 Squadron operational records, March 1945:
"The squadron suffered another loss on 6 March when F/O W. A. Tustin and his navigator Wettlaufer were killed in a flying accident. The crew were participating in a fighter affiliation exercise four miles north of the control tower at Dallachy, two miles off the beach in Spey Bay. The aircraft was seen to turn over on its back and dive steeply into the water. A destroyer was nearby at the time and launched boats but neither of the crew was ever recovered."
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The Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede commemorates the names of over 20,000 airmen who were lost in the Second World War during operations from bases in the United Kingdom and North and Western Europe and who have no known graves.
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