299 Squadron ("X9-Y Worry"!)

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Reference WMO/267598

Address:

National Memorial Arboretum

(North East)

Croxall Road

Alrewas

DE13 7AR

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Stone of remembrance
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Stone Stone (any)
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: An oval blue metal plaque with white lettering screw-fixed to an upright roughcast stone. The plaque has a commemoration below the insignia of the RAF. The names of the crew are listed below an engraving of a Short Stirling Mark IV- aircraft. An oak tree behind the memorial has been grown from an acorn found at Oosterbeek Cemetery, where paratroopers formed a defence at Arnhem. The memorial is one of several within Garden 1(Special Operations) of the Allied Special Forces Grove.
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X9-Y (WORRY!)/ 299 SQUADRON/ SPECIAL OPERATIONS SERVICE/ TO THE AIRCREW OF SHORT STIRLING MK IV-/ CALL SIGN 'X9-Y' (WORRY!)./ THIS CREW WERE TOGETHER FROM 1943 UNTIL THE END OF HOSTILITIES IN EUROPE./ DURING THAT TIME THEY FLEW 3 RE-SUPPLY MISSIONS TO ARNHEM FOR/ OPERATION MARKET GARDEN AND TOWED GLIDERS FOR OPERATION VARSITY,/ THE RHINE CROSSING. THEY WERE ALSO ON SPECIAL OPERATIONS DUTIES WITH SOLO/ FLIGHTS TO AUXERRE, BERGERAC, THE HAGUE, BRUSSELS, ROTTERDAM, UTRECHT,/ THE SOGGNE FJORD, COPENHAGEN AND EINDHOVEN./ THE CREW WERE AMONG THE FIRST BRITISH TO LAND IN OSLO NORWAY AT THE/ END OF HOSTILITIES AND WERE ALSO INVOLVED IN THE REPATRIATION OF POWS/ AS THE ALLIES ADVANCED ON GERMANY./ [Engraving of Short Stirling Mark IV-]/ [Names...]

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