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Those known to have served at RAF Thorney Island during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Heffernan Daniel Joseph. F/O
- Jenssen Sigurd Gerhardt. Flt/Sgt. (d.19th August 1942)
- Shaw Lawrence. F/Lt.
- Tilley Stanley Charles Clifford. Sgt.
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F/O Daniel Joseph Heffernan New York 415 squadron I have some photographs and documents from the late Major D J Heffernan USAF, Formally a Graduate of Loyola College. He served in the RCAF and then joined the USAAF after the USA entered the war. He was an Air Gunner in the RCAF with 415 Squadron based at Thorney Island, Hampshire, and a Gunnery leader/instructor in the USAAF based at Sudbury Suffolk UK. He kept a war diary during his USAAF service that shows although an American he had been schooled in flying and airmanship in a different culture than the one he later joined. He was a dedicated flyer and took the fight to the enemy, enjoyed the camaraderie and uniformed life in general even being a little bit of a dandy. He was pre-war a stock-broker in New York and although he did not have to involve himself in the war he joined the RCAF as an Airman Air Gunner at the age of 30+. He flew most of his 300 hours of operations in Hampdens and Wellingtons then a couple or more trips as an Aircrew Observer/Gunner in B 24s and possibly an odd trip in a B 17.He was divorced in the USA sometime in the early 1940s but re-married in England to a local Hampshire lady during the war.
After the war he and his wife returned to the US to Travis Air Force Base but he sadly died of Tuberculosis in 1953. A short purposeful life lived it would seem to the full.
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Flt/Sgt. Sigurd Gerhardt Jenssen 129th (Mysore) Squadron (d.19th August 1942) Sigurd Jenssen was aged 24 when he died.
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Sgt. Stanley Charles Clifford Tilley Photographic Section In 1939 Dad, Stanley Tilley was stationed at Thorney Island and I remember seeing a photo of a Blenheim back from a low level attack on shipping with some ships rigging stuck in its wings.
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F/Lt. Lawrence Shaw 612 (County of Aberdeen) Squadron Lawrence Shaw served in 612 Squadron from 15th Feb 1942 to 9th Aug. 1942 in Reykjavik, 11th Aug. 1942 to 15th Sept. 1942 in Thorney Island, 16th Sept 1942 to 7th Dec. 1942 in Wick & again 4th Feb 1943 to 17th Apr. 1943 in Wick. 18th Apr. 1943 to 27th May 1943 in Davidstow Moor, 11th June 1943 and finally 1st Jul 1943 in Chivenor.
In among the above dates, flights are also recorded with 144 Squadron 8th Dec. 1942 to 21st Jan. 1943 from Leuchars.
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