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Digital gallery of Flying Officer Ralph Douglas Van Fleet
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Grave Marker
photo of grave marker courtesy of Des Philippet F/O Van Fleet was bomb aimer on Halifax LW 555 when it was shot down by a night-fighter on an operation against Nuremberg, Germany on the night of 30/31 March 1944. Two other Canadians were also killed. They were the pilot, F/O Charles E. O’Brien,of Toronto and the navigator, F/O R. H. Carleton of Kingston It was the fourth operation for the three Canadians. -
Grave marker
Photo or original wooden cross -
Photo of RALPH DOUGLAS VAN FLEET
RCAF photo before training. -
Photo of RALPH DOUGLAS VAN FLEET
RCAF photo taken after receiving his wings. -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Ralph Douglas Van Fleet is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Ralph Douglas Van Fleet is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Identification
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Document
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star March 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ralph Douglas Van Fleet
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ralph Douglas Van Fleet
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ralph Douglas Van Fleet
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ralph Douglas Van Fleet
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ralph Douglas Van Fleet
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ralph Douglas Van Fleet
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ralph Douglas Van Fleet
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ralph Douglas Van Fleet
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ralph Douglas Van Fleet
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 468 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany
The site of Rheinberg War Cemetery was chosen in April 1946 by the Army Graves Service for the assembly of Commonwealth graves recovered from numerous German cemeteries in the area. The majority of those now buried in the cemetery were airmen, whose graves were brought in from Dusseldorf, Krefeld, Munchen-Gladbach, Essen, Aachen and Dortmund; 450 graves were from Cologne alone. The men of the other fighting services buried here mostly lost their lives during the battle of the Rhineland, or in the advance from the Rhine to the Elbe.
There are now 3,326 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Rheinberg War Cemetery. 156 of the burials are unidentified. There are also nine war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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