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About Alan Wesley Giles Fripp
WWII RAAF Flight Sergeant 463 squadron died in air operations over France.
Lancaster LM551 took off from RAF Waddington at 2253 hours on the night of 18/19th July 1944 to bomb the railway junction at Revigny, France. Bomb load 11 x 1000lb, 3 x 500lb bombs. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. Eight aircraft from the Squadron took part in the raid and two of these including LM551 failed to return.
Crew:
RAAF 415520 FO Gifford, B H Captain (Pilot)
RAAF 413036 WO R G Shipway, (Navigator)
RAAF 427360 Flt Sgt F G Spencer, (Bomb Aimer)
RAAF 427314 Flt Sgt A W G Fripp, (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
RAF Sgt H Newell, (Flight Engineer)
RAAF 427934 Flt Sgt P J Pearce, (Mid Upper Gunner)
RAAF 430247 Flt Sgt J C B Boydell, (Rear Gunner)
Post war it was established that the aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed into the Canal de Marne between Locks 53 and 54. All the crew were killed and they were initially buried at Revigny, but later re-interred at the Choloy War Cemetery, France. Choloy is a village 28kms west of Nancy and 5kms west of Toul a town on the N4 road from Paris to Nancy. Locality Meurthe-et-Moselles, France.
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Alan Wesley Giles Fripp's Timeline
| 1914 |
March 29, 1914
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Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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| 1944 |
July 19, 1944
Age 30
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France
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