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Son of Max and Anne Tomczak, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Schoolmaster.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Air crew plot in Ten Boer (Groningen) Protestant Cemetery.
(Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands.)
F/O McCracken was a member of 405 Squadron, Pathfinder Force.
Halifax HR864 was airborne 2146 25 Jul 43 from Gransden Lodge. Outbound, the aircraft was shot down by a night-fighter crashing at Ten Boer (Groningen) 12 km NE of Groningen, Holland.
The crew are: F/O M. E. Tomczak; Sgt A. J. Wood RAF; F/O A. P. McCracken; Sgt C. J. V. Kettley; Sgt E. K. White; F/S M. S. Smyth; F/O A.J.Sochowski was interned in Camp L3, PoW No.1649.
(Source: www.lostbombers.co.uk)
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
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Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Submitted by Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Submitted by Operation Picture Me
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Air crew plot in Ten Boer (Groningen) Protestant Cemetery. (Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands.) F/O McCracken was a member of 405 Squadron, Pathfinder Force. Halifax HR864 was airborne 2146 25 Jul 43 from Gransden Lodge. Outbound, the aircraft was shot down by a night-fighter crashing at Ten Boer (Groningen) 12 km NE of Groningen, Holland. The crew are: F/O M. E. Tomczak; Sgt A. J. Wood RAF; F/O A. P. McCracken; Sgt C. J. V. Kettley; Sgt E. K. White; F/S M. S. Smyth; F/O A.J.Sochowski was interned in Camp L3, PoW No.1649. (Source: www.lostbombers.co.uk)
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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 by Operation Picture Me
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Submitted by Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 220 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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