Handley Page Halifax LK954

Inscription

Plaque: Badge of 428 Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force This memorial is dedicated to the crew of Halifax Bomber LK954 NA E of 428 (Ghost) Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force which crashed close to this point on 3rd November 1943 as a result of enemy action. The 8 crew, who took off from Royal Air Force Middleton-St-George on a bombing mission over Dusseldorf, were all killed. At 18 years of age, Pilot Officer A.E. McKenzie was one of the youngest Canadians to be killed on Bomber Command Operations during World War II. The three Non-Commissioned Officers on board were all Royal Air Force. [crew names listed on memorial] Oh, I Have Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth, and Danced the Skies on Laughter-silvered Wings, Sunward I've Climbed and Joined the Tumbling Mirth of Sun-split Clouds - and Done a Hundred Things You Have Not Dreamed of - Wheeled and Soared and Swung High in the Sunlit Silence. Hov'ring There, I've Chased the Shouting Wind Along and Flung My Eager Craft Through Footless Halls of Air. Up, Up the Long Delirious, Burning Blue I've Topped the Wind Swept Heights with Easy Grace, Where Never Lark, or Even Eagle, Flew; And, While with Silent, Lifting Mind I've Trod the High Untrespassed Sanctity of Space, Put Out My Hand, and Touched the Face of God. P.OFF John Gillespie Magee RCAF (1922-1941)

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