{"id":584,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=584"},"modified":"2022-08-10T13:38:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:38:41","slug":"michaels-arthur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/michaels-arthur\/","title":{"rendered":"Michaels, Arthur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Navigator, 630 Squadron
Service number 1297762
Died 17 March 1945
Buried Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany
Age 24<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arthur (Abraham) was born on 26 February 1922 in Pancras, London to Marks and Millie n\u00e9e Tolzinsky\/Abrams and he had three brothers, Isadore, Isaac and Reuben and a sister Sadie. Their father, who originated from Lithuania, worked as a furrier and died in 1942. In 1939, when Arthur was seventeen, he was living with his parents at 51 Shepherds Bush Green in Hammersmith, London and he was working as a furrier. Arthur enlisted into the RAF in 1940.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arthur was the navigator on Lancaster LM260 which departed RAF East Kirkby on a night operation to W\u00fcrzburg. The aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed at Moos, 11km south of W\u00fcrzburg killing all the crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
F\/E, Peter Ackland, 2220646.
A\/G, John David Baker, 1867772.
A\/B, John Harold Croucher, 1585464.
A\/G, Kenneth Howard Greenfield, 2221048.
W\/Op, Roy Jeffery, 1271724.
Pilot, Donald Ivan Plumb, 196398. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n