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ASSELIN, Joseph Edmund Tobin

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rank: P/O
status: pow
airforce: RCAF    (no: J4882 )
born: Montreal Canada

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Joseph Edmund (Eddie) Tobin Asselin joined 92 Squadron on 28th August 1941. He flew only three times with 92, twice on wing sweeps on 31st August 1941 when he crash landed at Gibralter Farm, Hempstead (nr Chatham) Kent in Spitfire P8784. then on a wing sweep on 4th September 1941 in Spifire W3182 he failed to return. He was shot down nr St Omer and became a prisoner of war.
He spent the rest of the war tunneling and escaping in various Prison Camps until liberated in April 1945.
he was born in c1920 in Bromptonville, Quebec, Canada. The son of Joseph Omer Asselin and Beatrice

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RAF 92 Squadron 1941-08-28

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P8784 P/O Joseph Edmund Tobin Asselin crash landed at Gibralter Farm, Hempstead (nr Chatham) Kent 1941-08-31
W3182 P/O Eddie Asselin failed to return from a Wing Sweep He was shot down nr St Omer and became a prisoner of war 1941-09-04

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