CREW MEMBER PROFILE |
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Surname: |
GLENNY |
First Name/s: |
Clifford James "Cliff" |
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Service No/s: |
R174098 |
Service: |
RCAF |
Branch: |
Air Gunner |
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Awards: |
1939-45 Star, France & Germany Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal & clasp, 1939-45 War Medal. |
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SERVICE RECORDS |
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Date |
Event |
Aircraft Flown |
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02 Jun 1942 |
Enlisted, in Montreal, Quebec aged 20 |
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11 Mar 1944 |
No.11 Base, Lindholme, Yorkshire; administrative Base for 1 Group heavy bomber conversions |
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28 Mar 1944 |
No. 1656 Heavy Conversion Unit (HCU), Lindholme, Yorkshire; joins C Hart crew |
Halifax |
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05 May 1944 |
No. 1 Lancaster Finishing School (LFS), Hemswell, Lincolnshire. |
Lancaster |
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16 May 1944 |
Joined No. 576 Squadron, 'A' Flight at Elsham Wolds, Linconshire |
Lancaster |
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13 Jul 1944 |
Revigny; MB abandoned attack; shot down in ND859 UL-L2. Later captured and interned in Stalag 13D, PoW No.15185. POW records give SN C87956. Plt Off whilst POW. Gravestone shows Fg Off. Obit uses Glennie. Newspaper report gives POW from Montreal Gazette 4 Nov 44. |
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14 Apr 1945 |
Liberated from POW camp by US troops. |
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16 Jan 1946 |
Discharged as Flying Officer (Fg Off) at Lachine, Quebec. |
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576 Squadron FLYING RECORDS |
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Date |
Aircraft |
Code |
Flight Details |
T/O |
Land |
Flt Time |
Crew |
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28 May 1944 |
ME801 |
UL-I2 |
Training |
nk |
nk |
4h20 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
Night cross country |
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29 May 1944 |
ME801 |
UL-C2 |
Training |
nk |
nk |
3h35 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
Cross country. |
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31 May 1944 |
ND859 |
UL-L2 |
Training |
nk |
nk |
3h50 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
'Y' cross country |
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02 Jun 1944 |
LM532 |
UL-A2 |
CALAIS |
2255 |
0330 |
4h35 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
Coastal gun battery The attacks against gun batteries in the Pas de Calais was part of a plan to deceive the Germans that the forthcoming invasion was to be in this area, and not Normandy. Load: 11x 1000lb, 4x 500lb bombs Most aircraft could not bomb due to cloud cover and brought their bombs back |
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03 Jun 1944 |
LM532 |
UL-A2 |
WIMEREUX (BOULOGNE) |
nk |
nk |
nk |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
Coastal railway gun battery The attack was part of the plan to deceive the Germans that the forthcoming invasion was to be in this area, and not Normandy. Load: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’, 16 or 15x 500lb bombs |
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04 Jun 1944 |
LM532 |
UL-A2 |
Training |
nk |
nk |
2h30 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
Y cross country |
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05 Jun 1944 |
LM532 |
UL-A2 |
ST MARTIN DE VARREVILLE & CRISBECQ |
2135 |
0220 |
4h45 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
Coastal gun batteries (2 targets) Load: 18x 500lb bombs. Rainey states 11x 1000lb, 4x 500lb Squadron aircraft were split between the two targets – not known fully which was which. Confirmation of target taken from logbook entries. Bombardment of the coastal batteries on the eve of the D-Day invasion of France. |
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06 Jun 1944 |
PA997 |
UL-D2 |
VIRE |
2215 |
0350 |
5h35 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
2 APs: Viaduc de Martilly road/rail bridge (western AP) & marshalling yards Load: 18x 500lb bombs |
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10 Jun 1944 |
ND859 |
UL-L2 |
FLERS |
0035 |
0555 |
5h20 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
Luftwaffe FW-190 fighter airfield Load: 18x 500lb bombs |
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12 Jun 1944 |
ND859 |
UL-L2 |
GELSENKIRCHEN (NORDSTERN) |
2255 |
0320 |
4h25 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
Gelsenberg AG synthetic oil plant in Nordstern Load: 1,4000lb ‘Cookie’, 16x 500lb bombs |
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22 Jun 1944 |
ND859 |
UL-L2 |
MIMOYECQUES |
1405 |
1725 |
3h20 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
V3 cannon construction site Load: 18x 500lb bombs |
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23 Jun 1944 |
ND859 |
UL-L2 |
SAINTES |
2200 |
0540 |
7h40 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
Marshalling yards Load: H2S Aircraft: 10x 1000lb, 2x 500lb bombs All other aircraft: 10x 1000lb, 3x 500lb bombs |
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25 Jun 1944 |
ND859 |
UL-L2 |
FLERS |
0140 |
0505 |
3h25 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
V1 flying bomb launch site Load: 18x 500lb bombs |
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27 Jun 1944 |
ND859 |
UL-L2 |
CHÂTEAU DE BERNAPRÉ |
0135 |
0535 |
4h00 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
V1 flying bomb launch site Load: 18x 500lb |
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30 Jun 1944 |
ND859 |
UL-L2 |
OISEMONT / NEUVILLE AU BOIS |
0550 |
0940 |
3h50 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
V1 flying bomb launch site Load: 11x 1,000lb, 4x 500lb bombs |
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04 Jul 1944 |
LM133 |
UL-H2 |
ORLEANS |
2200 |
0420 |
6h20 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
Marshalling yards Load: 18x 500lb bombs |
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05 Jul 1944 |
ND859 |
UL-L2 |
Training |
nk |
nk |
0h40 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
Air test |
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11 Jul 1944 |
ND859 |
UL-L2 |
Training |
nk |
nk |
2h05 |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
Air test, air to sea firing, bombing |
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12 Jul 1944 |
ND859 |
UL-L2 |
REVIGNY |
2125 |
FTR |
uk |
P1 Plt Off C. Hart |
NOTES: |
Marshalling yards Load: 7x 1000lb, 4x 500lb bombs Deputy Master Bomber instructed aircraft to Return To Base (RTB) with bombs (‘Lysol’) as cloud was obscuring the target. Target marking was conducted by the 1 Group Special Duties Flight based at Binbrook. Lost in ND859 UL-L2. Probable mid-air collision with LM638, possibly whilst evading a night fighter. Crashed at 1400 hrs on 13 July 1944 at Giey-sur-Aujon, Haute Marne, France. Only the two gunners survived. Remembered with Honour. GIEY-SUR-AUJON CHURCHYARD. Giey-sur-Aujon is a village and commune 15 miles (24 kilometres) south-west of Chaumont and 20 kilometres west of Langres, it lies on the road from Langres to Arc-en-Barrois. Buried in a collective grave of five British airmen comprising Plt Off Hart, Sgts Greig, Jones, McHugh and Mitchell. |
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