Hi Walter, Thanks ever so much for your information. Sorry it's taken me so long to reply but I was away on holiday with no access to a PC. My dad was in 458 Squadron, but was not in the crew of Markey (who lost his life a few days later). I imagine my father was sent to the Denia area because of the earlier encounter between Markey and the u-boat. I wonder if the "explosions&quo
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Thanks for that Phil. It may be, of course, the u-boat crew didn't spot my dad's rapidly approaching Wellington and dived by coincidence but it would be nice to see if it was logged on the KTB.
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On 10th January 1944 my father was one of the crew of an RAAF Wellington bomber. At 17.06 hours they sighted a u-boat on the surface of the Mediterranean. They were flying about five miles north of Denia, Spain, over the sea. At first they could see only a wake about seven miles from them (I don't know in which direction) and as they got to about two miles from the wake they could clearl
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