DAMBUSTERS Rodger, James Alexander

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Rodger ​

• FORENAME

James Alexander ​

• UNIT

617 Squadron,R.A.F.V.R. ​

• RANK

Flying Officer ​

• NUMBER

121558 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

16th September 1943 ​

• AGE

32 ​

• GRAVESITE

Reichswald Forest War Cemetery,Germany 24.F.6 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 1911 Edinburgh​

son of Hugh Alexander and Elizabeth Jessie Rodger,Edinburgh​

husband of Muriel Rodger,Edinburgh​

RAF 1940​

service number 1070106​

3 RC 21.9.1940​

1 RW 15.3.1941​

11 ITW 5.4.1941​

PAA 1.8.1941​

PTC 14.8.1941​

Miami 24.8.1941​

31 PD 6.12.1941​

UK 26.12.1941​

3 PRC 26.12.1941​

5 AOS 16.1.1942​

Pilot Officer 19.5.1942​

Flying Officer 19.11.1942​

617 Squadron March-April 1943​

navigator​

Lancaster JA898​

Ladbergen (Dortmund-Ems Kanal)​

hit by flak and crashed between Recke and Obersteinbeck,Germany​

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