• Operation Chastise (Dambusters Raid)

Date of birth:

September 22nd, 1922 (Nanaimo/British Columbia, Canada)

Date of death:

June 2nd, 1962 (Saltery Bay/British Columbia, Canada)

Nationality:

Canadian

John William Fraser, born in Nanaimo, Canada, on September 22, 1922, joined the RCAF early in the war. After qualifying as a bomb aimer, he arrived in England in April 1942 and was posted to 50 Squadron, completing a full tour of thirty operations.

In April 1943, instead of an inter-tour rest, he was recommended for 617 Squadron and arrived at Scampton late in Dams Raid training. Given special permission for his April 29 wedding, he briefly stepped away before returning.

His plane was in the first wave and the second to attack Möhne Dam. The plane was hit multiple times by Flak and crashed on the far side of the dam. The mine was dropped too late and bounced over the Dam

After crashing and landing nearly a mile from the wreckage, Fraser was captured, interrogated, and sent to a PoW camp. Freed at war’s end, he reunited with his wife Doris in May 1945.

He later worked in forestry and achieved his dream of becoming a pilot but tragically died in a flying accident at Saltery Bay, British Columbia, on June 2, 1962

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