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Son of Haraldur B. and Elin Einarson. Twin brother of Flight Lieutenant Johann Walter, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
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Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
Excerpt of story on Airwar Over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com used with permission.<P>
Lancaster R5628 of 207 (RAF) Sqn. was on Gardening (mining) operation to Silverthorn.(Kattegat).
On the return flight it was attacked by a German night fighter and crashed at 04:09 into the sea some 10 kilometres south west of Thyborøn killing all onboard.
Pilot Sgt Harold B. Einarson and RAF Sgts. George H.A. Birch, Arthur F.C. Kensett and Norman F. Smethurst have no known graves and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.<P>
The bodies of W/Op-Air Gnr. P/O Donald W. Ross RCAF and RAF Sgts. Francis R. Carter and Llastair M. Cockie drifted ashore and they were laid to rest in Lemvig cemetery.<P>
Sadly, his twin brother, F/L Johann Walter Einarson, D.F.C., D.F.M., pilot on #61 (RAF) Squadron, was killed in action February 25, 1944.
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Excerpt of story on Airwar Over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com used with permission.<P> Lancaster R5628 of 207 (RAF) Sqn. was on Gardening (mining) operation to Silverthorn.(Kattegat). On the return flight it was attacked by a German night fighter and crashed at 04:09 into the sea some 10 kilometres south west of Thyborøn killing all onboard. Pilot Sgt Harold B. Einarson and RAF Sgts. George H.A. Birch, Arthur F.C. Kensett and Norman F. Smethurst have no known graves and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.<P> The bodies of W/Op-Air Gnr. P/O Donald W. Ross RCAF and RAF Sgts. Francis R. Carter and Llastair M. Cockie drifted ashore and they were laid to rest in Lemvig cemetery.<P> Sadly, his twin brother, F/L Johann Walter Einarson, D.F.C., D.F.M., pilot on #61 (RAF) Squadron, was killed in action February 25, 1944.
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Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Harold Bjorn Einarson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 71 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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