31 December 1943 Part 11

31 December 1943 Guernsey bomber crashes and Canadian airmen rescued

Editorial note: Additional Seventh Army account of an incident already represented in the master; this is not an additional action.

Between 1430 and 1545, three bombers crashed into the sea near Guernsey. Eleven Canadians (four officers, seven sergeants) rescued from a rubber dinghy.

T-312 Roll 1570, Seventh Army records. Supplied English translation T312_R1570_English_Translation.docx. PDF page 361; report of 1 January 1944. Selected island-related extract; PDF page numbers refer to the source reel as numbered in the supplied translation.