30/05/1942 W7538 Atacked Gnome Rhone works
up 00.30 down 05.30
31/05/1942 W7538 Attacked Cologne up 23.05
down 03.05
04/06/1942 R9317 Attacked Bremen up 23.30
down 02.15
Up to this point F/L Turtle had flown on 45
operational missions. On 6 june 1942, F/L
Turtle and his crew were to fly a mission
against the German city of Emden. F/L
Turtle's crew consisted of:
Flight Lieutenant Reginald William Arthur
TURTLE DFC (Pilot)
Pilot Officer , Leonard TREPPASS(Obs.)
Flight Sergeant Wilfred BARHAM, (W.Op./Air
Gnr.)
Flight Sergeant Norman HARRISON, (W.Op./Air
Gnr.)
Pilot Officer John Barry HOLDSWORTH,
Pilot Officer Barrie P CARDINAL, (Air Gnr.)
Pilot Officer Edward M MARKS, (Air Gnr.)
Sergeant Allan R SCOTT, (Flt. Engr.)
The two Canadian air gunners on N3761 had
been posted to No 214 Squadron on May 20 ,from
No 410 a Fighter squadron. Fl/Sgt Barham had
done one tour on Wellingtons before joining
a new Stirling crew.
Their plane was shot down by a Bf110
night-fighter flwon by Oblt Prinz Egmont zur
Lippe Weissenfeld of 11./NJG2 and crashed at
01.47 off Terschelling. Five are buried in
various island cemeteries off the coast of
Holland, while F/L Harrison, P/O Holdsworth
and P/O Marks have no known graves.
Most members of this crew had survived a
serious crash three days prior to this event.
Regarding this crash no information is known
at this point but it was most likely a
emergency landing after their mission to
Bremen on 4 June.
F/L Turtle's DFC was awarded
posthumously.
He was 26.
(picture by
Wim Bastiaanse)