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James Parrott

Jim Parrott 1943

At 03.20 hours, on January 29^th1944,Brandon teenager, Sergeant Flight Engineer James H Parrott, serving in the RAF, was killed when the Halifax Mk2 bomber he was in was shot down by a night fighter whilst on a mission to bomb industrial targets over Berlin. The crew were from the 419 RAF bomber squadron and they had accomplished ten uneventful but successful missions in the previous four months, before their eleventh mission when they received damage from heavy flak over Magdeburg. It was their twelfth mission when they were shot down and all eight crew lost their lives. James’ name is included on the Brandon War Memorial in the Brandon cemetery and also is commemorated on a wall mounted plaque in St Peter's Church.

James was 19 years old.

My grateful thanks to Robert Carman for the following images and information.

Robert sent me a copy of a letter from the Ministry Of Defence that was sent to another of Parrott's crew member's relations. It lists the crew and gives a couple of details about their final flight. [ click here to view it ]

A second document is a list of all their flights. [ click here to view it ]

Then there is a photo of Jim Parrott's grave in Berlin. [ click here to view it ]

There are also two links to a website with two different magnifications of the same photo of Jim Parrott and his crew mates. Parrott is third from the left as you look at the photo.

http://www.rcaf.com/6group/419Crews/index.htm & http://www.rcaf.com/6group/419Crews/pages/Palmercrew.html

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