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Isaac was a Sergeant/Air Gunner in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 115 Sqdn. Service No: 1544587. He was 21 and the son of Joseph and Jessie Morris of Staveley.
At 7.15am on 18 July 1944 an Avro Lancaster Mk.111 bomber belonging to 115 Squadron RAF attempted to land, crashed through the trees over Eagles Nest House, in a wood on top of Birkitt Hill. It bounced on a field and slammed into West End Farm House killing the crew as well as the farmer's wife and two daughters (one of whom was Private Elsie Handley, home on leave from the Auxiliary Territorial Service). The farmer, George Handley, and his sons were milking in the cow sheds and escaped. The aircraft LM616 (KO J) had left its base at RAF Witchford near Ely at 04:20 hrs to support Allied ground forces taking part in Operation Goodwood during the Normandy campaign. The Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces objective was to bomb units of the 16th Luftwaffe Field Division and the 21st Panzer Division which were located around the Manneville area in France. LM616 received severe damage during the raid, in which its controls and navigation aids were shot up. The aircraft had descended through low cloud only to see the high escarpment of the Chiltern Hills at Offley loom into view too late for the crew to take immediate action.
Isaac was a Sergeant/Air Gunner in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 115 Sqdn. Service No: 1544587. He was 21 and the son of Joseph and Jessie Morris of Staveley.
At 7.15am on 18 July 1944 an Avro Lancaster Mk.111 bomber belonging to 115 Squadron RAF attempted to land, crashed through the trees over Eagles Nest House, in a wood on top of Birkitt Hill. It bounced on a field and slammed into West End Farm House killing the crew as well as the farmer's wife and two daughters (one of whom was Private Elsie Handley, home on leave from the Auxiliary Territorial Service). The farmer, George Handley, and his sons were milking in the cow sheds and escaped. The aircraft LM616 (KO J) had left its base at RAF Witchford near Ely at 04:20 hrs to support Allied ground forces taking part in Operation Goodwood during the Normandy campaign. The Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces objective was to bomb units of the 16th Luftwaffe Field Division and the 21st Panzer Division which were located around the Manneville area in France. LM616 received severe damage during the raid, in which its controls and navigation aids were shot up. The aircraft had descended through low cloud only to see the high escarpment of the Chiltern Hills at Offley loom into view too late for the crew to take immediate action.
From CWGC:
Isaac was a Sergeant/Air Gunner in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 115 Sqdn. Service No: 1544587. He was 21 and the son of Joseph and Jessie Morris of Staveley.
At 7.15am on 18 July 1944 an Avro Lancaster Mk.111 bomber belonging to 115 Squadron RAF attempted to land, crashed through the trees over Eagles Nest House, in a wood on top of Birkitt Hill. It bounced on a field and slammed into West End Farm House killing the crew as well as the farmer's wife and two daughters (one of whom was Private Elsie Handley, home on leave from the Auxiliary Territorial Service). The farmer, George Handley, and his sons were milking in the cow sheds and escaped. The aircraft LM616 (KO J) had left its base at RAF Witchford near Ely at 04:20 hrs to support Allied ground forces taking part in Operation Goodwood during the Normandy campaign. The Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces objective was to bomb units of the 16th Luftwaffe Field Division and the 21st Panzer Division which were located around the Manneville area in France. LM616 received severe damage during the raid, in which its controls and navigation aids were shot up. The aircraft had descended through low cloud only to see the high escarpment of the Chiltern Hills at Offley loom into view too late for the crew to take immediate action.
Isaac was a Sergeant/Air Gunner in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 115 Sqdn. Service No: 1544587. He was 21 and the son of Joseph and Jessie Morris of Staveley.
At 7.15am on 18 July 1944 an Avro Lancaster Mk.111 bomber belonging to 115 Squadron RAF attempted to land, crashed through the trees over Eagles Nest House, in a wood on top of Birkitt Hill. It bounced on a field and slammed into West End Farm House killing the crew as well as the farmer's wife and two daughters (one of whom was Private Elsie Handley, home on leave from the Auxiliary Territorial Service). The farmer, George Handley, and his sons were milking in the cow sheds and escaped. The aircraft LM616 (KO J) had left its base at RAF Witchford near Ely at 04:20 hrs to support Allied ground forces taking part in Operation Goodwood during the Normandy campaign. The Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces objective was to bomb units of the 16th Luftwaffe Field Division and the 21st Panzer Division which were located around the Manneville area in France. LM616 received severe damage during the raid, in which its controls and navigation aids were shot up. The aircraft had descended through low cloud only to see the high escarpment of the Chiltern Hills at Offley loom into view too late for the crew to take immediate action.
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