{"id":849,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=849"},"modified":"2021-05-03T05:56:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T05:56:40","slug":"gottlieb-abe-isadore","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/gottlieb-abe-isadore\/","title":{"rendered":"Gottlieb, Abe Isadore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Wireless Operator\/Air Gunner, 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron
Service number 777667
Died 6 June 1942
Commemorated on Runnymede Memorial
Age 22<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abe was born on 26 June 1918 in Cape Town, South Africa to Latvian Woolf and Katherine n\u00e9e Spugen and had five siblings. Their father died in 1932. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abe was the wireless operator\/air gunner on Lancaster R5516 which departed RAF Waddington on a night operation to Essen. The aircraft was shot down by a night- fighter, Mjr Gunther Radusch NJG1 and crashed in the North Sea whether outbound or home-bound cannot be established. Four of the crew were never found and three bodies were washed up on the Dutch coast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A\/G, Handel Jones, 1378215, buried Texel (Den Berg) Cemetery
Pilot, Roger Ranson, 116488, buried Bergen General Cemetery<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A\/G, Leslie Stanhope Melhado, 1384447, buried Bergen Op Zoom War Cemetery. Leslie was also Jewish and was born and raised in Jamaica. He has a memorial page on the website. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n