F/Sgt. John Campbell Willson was born in Alberta, Canada. Son of Charles Alwyn Willson and Euphemia Lily Willson, of Encinitas, California, U.S.A. He was raised in Melrose Park, Illinois and graduated from Proviso Township High School in Maywood, Illinois in 1941. He joined the RCAF in 1942 and lost his life when his plane, Lancaster LM434 44 Squadron crashed at a coal mine site near Lanklaar Limburg Belgium.
Lancaster LM434 leave on June 21, 1944, at 22:55 from Dunholme Lodge Air Base in England. The aircraft was shot down by the German night fighter Major Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer . Two of the crew members were killed in the crash,
Pilot P/O Neville John Wingrove Scholtz RAFVR KIA
F/E Sgt Wilfred T Wainwright POW
Nav WO2 Leo P Tobin RCAF EVD
B/A F/S John Campbell Willson RCAF KIA
W/Op Sgt Francis Preston POW
M/U WO1 Richard Schott RCAF POW
R/G Sgt William D Barnett POW
Lancaster LM434 leave on June 21, 1944, at 22:55 from Dunholme Lodge Air Base in England. The aircraft was shot down by the German night fighter Major Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer . Two of the crew members were killed in the crash,
Pilot P/O Neville John Wingrove Scholtz RAFVR KIA
F/E Sgt Wilfred T Wainwright POW
Nav WO2 Leo P Tobin RCAF EVD
B/A F/S John Campbell Willson RCAF KIA
W/Op Sgt Francis Preston POW
M/U WO1 Richard Schott RCAF POW
R/G Sgt William D Barnett POW
F/Sgt. John Campbell Willson was born in Alberta, Canada. Son of Charles Alwyn Willson and Euphemia Lily Willson, of Encinitas, California, U.S.A. He was raised in Melrose Park, Illinois and graduated from Proviso Township High School in Maywood, Illinois in 1941. He joined the RCAF in 1942 and lost his life when his plane, Lancaster LM434 44 Squadron crashed at a coal mine site near Lanklaar Limburg Belgium.
Lancaster LM434 leave on June 21, 1944, at 22:55 from Dunholme Lodge Air Base in England. The aircraft was shot down by the German night fighter Major Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer . Two of the crew members were killed in the crash,
Pilot P/O Neville John Wingrove Scholtz RAFVR KIA
F/E Sgt Wilfred T Wainwright POW
Nav WO2 Leo P Tobin RCAF EVD
B/A F/S John Campbell Willson RCAF KIA
W/Op Sgt Francis Preston POW
M/U WO1 Richard Schott RCAF POW
R/G Sgt William D Barnett POW
Lancaster LM434 leave on June 21, 1944, at 22:55 from Dunholme Lodge Air Base in England. The aircraft was shot down by the German night fighter Major Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer . Two of the crew members were killed in the crash,
Pilot P/O Neville John Wingrove Scholtz RAFVR KIA
F/E Sgt Wilfred T Wainwright POW
Nav WO2 Leo P Tobin RCAF EVD
B/A F/S John Campbell Willson RCAF KIA
W/Op Sgt Francis Preston POW
M/U WO1 Richard Schott RCAF POW
R/G Sgt William D Barnett POW
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"I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE" SAITH THE LORD
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Flight Sergeant ( Air Bomber ) R/145481 Royal Canadian Air Force Age 20
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