Cusack, Charles
Personal Information
Rank | P/O |
Forename(s) | Charles |
Surname | Cusack |
Gender | M |
Age | 22 |
Decorations | |
Date of Death | 30-07-1944 |
Next of Kin | Son of Robert James Cusack and Ethel A. Cusack, of Felixstowe, Suffolk. |
Aircraft Information
Aircraft | Handley Page Halifax III |
Serial Number | NA528 |
Markings | PT-G |
Memorial Information
Burial/Memorial Country | United Kingdom |
Burial/Memorial Place | Oxford (Botley) Cemetery |
Grave Reference | Plot H/3. Grave 171. |
Epitaph | AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE SHALL REMEMBER (Extract from For The Fallen by Laurence Binyon) |
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase | 2 |
Panel Number | 152 |
Enlistment Information
Service Number | 55957 |
Service | Royal Air Force |
Group | 6 |
Squadron | 420 (Snowy Owl) |
Trade | Wireless Operator |
Country of Origin | United Kingdom |
Other Memorials
Location | Outside former St. Georges Hotel, Teesside Airport, County Durham |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Inscribed Slate Tablet on Memorial Stone |
Memorial Text | In memory of those who served at RAF Croft, 1941-1945 including 420 Sqn RCAF |
Location | Village Green, Tholthorpe, North Yorkshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Stone Memorial, inscribed Metal Plaque and Maple Tree |
Memorial Text | A memorial, in English & French, to those Canadians who served at RAF Tholthorpe during WW2, including 420 (RCAF) Sqn |
Location | Former Control Tower, Tholthorpe Airfield, North Yorkshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Inscribed Metal Plaque |
Memorial Text | A memorial to those Canadians who served at RAF Tholthorpe during WW2, including 420 Sqn |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The National Archives
Last Operation Information
Start Date | 30-07-1944 |
End Date | 30-07-1944 |
Takeoff Station | Tholthorpe |
Day/Night Raid | Day |
Operation | Amaye sur Seulles- to bomb enemy strong points in the Normandy battle area. Part of a 692 aircraft raid on 6 German positions in front of the American ground forces. The target was cloud covered but 377 aircraft were able to bomb onto Oboe markers. Only two of the six targets were considered to be have been successfully hit. 4 Lancasters lost (0.6%). |
Reason for Loss | Landed at White Waltham, Berkshire but overshot the runway, shaking free a hanging bomb that had failed to deploy, which exploded badly injuring most of the crew. |