Military Service
Service Number: J/95483
Enlisted: January 20, 1943 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Force: Air Force
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Group: No.6 Bomber Command
Squadron: No.432 (Leaside) Sqdn. RCAF
Airfield: RAF Station East Moor, Sutton-On-The-Forrest, York, England
Aircraft: Handley Page Halifax Mk.VII - NP699/QO-O
Deceased Age: 21
Pilot Officer / Mid-Upper Air Gunner.
Mission:
Stanley took off on a sortie to bomb industrial facilities at Duisburg in the Ruhr, Germany. At about 06:00 hrs, while over the Rocroi area, France the aircraft Collided midair with Handley Page Halifax Mk III - LV818 of 10 Squadron RAF, which had flown from RAF Station Melbourne, and was engaged in the same mission. The two planes fell together. LV818 crashed in the vicinity of Rocroi, near the village of Taillette, at the place called Les Bernes, France close to the Belgian border with the loss of all 8 crew members. NP699 crashed towards Brûly, Belgium with one survivor and the loss of 6 crew members.
Fellow crew members;
RCAF Pilot Officer Alfred Goodman-Wells Blayney - Wireless Operator / Air Gunner
RAFVR Pilot Officer Michael Joseph Boylan - Flight Engineer
RCAF Flying Officer Robert Leslie Cann - Navigator
RCAF Pilot Officer James William Green - Rear Air Gunner
RCAF Flying Officer Gordon Douglas Wilson - Air Bomber
Crash Surviver/Evader:
Flight Officer Max Krakovsky (later changed his name to "Carson") - Pilot
Honours/Citations:
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal (CVSM) with silver maple leaf emblem clasp and Bomber Command bar & War Medal 1939-1945
Commemoration(s)
- Page 485 Second World War Book of Remembrance, Memorial Chamber, Canadian Parliament Peace Tower, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Bomber Command Memorial Wall, Nanton, Alberta, Canada
- Phase 2 / Panel 270 International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) Canwick Ave, Lincoln LN4 2HQ, United Kingdom
Next of Kin: Son of Nellie Zadorozny. Taken into care as a baby and eventually fostered by George and Maud Jessen who lived on a farm in Sanford, Manitoba and they became his guardians.
Military Service
Service Number: J/95483
Enlisted: January 20, 1943 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Force: Air Force
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Group: No.6 Bomber Command
Squadron: No.432 (Leaside) Sqdn. RCAF
Airfield: RAF Station East Moor, Sutton-On-The-Forrest, York, England
Aircraft: Handley Page Halifax Mk.VII - NP699/QO-O
Deceased Age: 21
Pilot Officer / Mid-Upper Air Gunner.
Mission:
Stanley took off on a sortie to bomb industrial facilities at Duisburg in the Ruhr, Germany. At about 06:00 hrs, while over the Rocroi area, France the aircraft Collided midair with Handley Page Halifax Mk III - LV818 of 10 Squadron RAF, which had flown from RAF Station Melbourne, and was engaged in the same mission. The two planes fell together. LV818 crashed in the vicinity of Rocroi, near the village of Taillette, at the place called Les Bernes, France close to the Belgian border with the loss of all 8 crew members. NP699 crashed towards Brûly, Belgium with one survivor and the loss of 6 crew members.
Fellow crew members;
RCAF Pilot Officer Alfred Goodman-Wells Blayney - Wireless Operator / Air Gunner
RAFVR Pilot Officer Michael Joseph Boylan - Flight Engineer
RCAF Flying Officer Robert Leslie Cann - Navigator
RCAF Pilot Officer James William Green - Rear Air Gunner
RCAF Flying Officer Gordon Douglas Wilson - Air Bomber
Crash Surviver/Evader:
Flight Officer Max Krakovsky (later changed his name to "Carson") - Pilot
Honours/Citations:
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal (CVSM) with silver maple leaf emblem clasp and Bomber Command bar & War Medal 1939-1945
Commemoration(s)
- Page 485 Second World War Book of Remembrance, Memorial Chamber, Canadian Parliament Peace Tower, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Bomber Command Memorial Wall, Nanton, Alberta, Canada
- Phase 2 / Panel 270 International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) Canwick Ave, Lincoln LN4 2HQ, United Kingdom
Next of Kin: Son of Nellie Zadorozny. Taken into care as a baby and eventually fostered by George and Maud Jessen who lived on a farm in Sanford, Manitoba and they became his guardians.
Inscription
(RCAF Insignia)
PILOT OFFICER
S. E. ZADOROZNY
AIR GUNNER
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
18TH DECEMBER 1944 AGE 21
(Cross)
ALWAYS REMEMBERED
BY HIS FRIENDS
Gravesite Details
Pilot Officer (Air Gnr.), Royal Canadian Air Force. Age: 21.
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