{"id":5660,"date":"2020-09-10T08:39:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T08:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=5660"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:05:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:05:24","slug":"shaer-joseph-israel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/shaer-joseph-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaer, Joseph Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Joseph Israel Shaer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Flight Sergeant, 540 Squadron<br>Service number 1294047<br>Died 13 Apr 1944<br>Buried Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford<br>Age 24<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Headstone Inscription<br>&#8216;HIS YOUNG AND JOYOUS MEMORY WILL LIVE FOR EVER IN OUR HEARTS&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Jacob was born on 29 September 1920 in Mile End, London to Polish born parents Samuel and Clara nee Gross and had three older siblings. Their father Samuel worked as a tailor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joseph, known as Joey, attended the Raines Foundation Grammar School, Bethnal Green. He enlisted in 1940.\u00a0In 1942 he trained to be a navigator and was attached to 540 Squadron operating Mosquito aircraft from\u00a0RAF Benson in Oxfordshire.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joseph was the navigator on Mosquito LR416 which departed RAF Benson on an operation to obtain photographs in the Munich area. A\/C radioed, <em>&#8216;returning to base&#8217; <\/em>at 10.35, but crashed at Abingdon at 11.10, killing the crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Operational Record Book states: &#8216;<em>Escape hatch came off and lost a wing recovering from dive at Kingston Bagpuize 13.4.44. 540 Sqn. LR416 crashed two miles from Kingston Bagpuize aerodrome when a wing came off while diving out of cloud. The primary cause was the detachment of the top escape hatch in high speed dive causing inconvenience.&#8217; <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joseph and his Canadian pilot Charles Cyril Drew, J\/23033 were both killed. 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