LANGILLE, F/O George Eugene (J85756) - Mention in Despatches - No.193 Squadron (deceased) - Award effective 14 June 1945 as per London Gazette of that date and AFRO 1478/45 dated 21 September 1945. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, 15 November 1922. Home there (store clerk). Enlisted in Moncton, 8 January 1941 as a clerk and posted to No.1 Manning Depot, Toronto. To No.8 SFTS, Moncton, 19 February1941; to No.21 EFTS, Chatham, 3 July 1941, serving there to 23 May 1942 (promoted LAC, 8 July 1941 and Corporal, 1 August 1941). Remustered to aircrew and posted to No.3 ITS, 23 May 1942; to No.13 EFTS, 12 September 1942; may have graduated 6 November 1942 but not posted to No.2 SFTS until 21 November 1942; graduated and promoted Sergeant, 19 March 1943. To No.1 OTU, Bagotville, 2 April 1943. To ?Y? Depot, Halifax, 19 June 1943; to RAF Trainees Pool, 22 June 1943. Disembarked in Britain, 1 July 1943. To No.55 OTU, 27 July 1943. To No.193 Squadron, 17 September 1943. Promoted Flight Sergeant, 19 September 1943. Attended No.12 Armament Practice Camp, 6-11 April 1944. Commissioned 17 March 1944. To No.146 Squadron in France, 20 July 1944 but returned to No.193 Squadron almost at once. Killed in action 25 November 1944 (Typhoon MN912); buried in Holland. No citation. On 29 November 1944 Flight Sergeant Owen L. Pratt, No.193 Squadron, submitted a report on the loss of Typhoon MN912: On the 25th November 1944 I was Number 4 with ?Black Section?, call sign being ?Bassett Black?. The four of us had low-level bombed a railway and were flying low in search of transport, etc. We were flying on a northerly course and were in the vicinity of Barneveld and ?Black 1\" spotted some transport on the road. We did a steep turn to starboard and went in to attack. I, being on the outside of the turn, lagged behind a little, and as a result of this had rather a grim sight of the following. Flying Officer Langille attacked whilst the flak was directed at him, in particular a 20-mm cannon firing tracer scored direct hits on his plane. Fire broke out in the petrol tanks and he started to climb. The gunners continued firing at him, and the flames grew to sizable dimension. Reaching the time where he would normally have jumped out, the plane started to descend, more like a comet. Then a large piece of the plane broke off and fell blazing to the ground. Going down below the level of the tree-tops I lost sight of him and was unable to say whether he baled out or not. Dutch witnesses stated the aircraft was named ?Mickey?. A further report dated 22 November 1945 read: No.193 Squadron reported that Typhoon aircraft MN912, piloted by Flying Officer Langille, left base to carry out an operational attacks against the enemy. Flying Officer Langille had bombed an enemy railway line and then proceeded in search of transport. He was seen to carry out an attack on road transport and his aircraft was hit by enemy flak causing it to catch fire in the petrol tanks. Flying Officer Langille then started to climb in order to gain height to bale out, but the aircraft started descending in flames before this could be done. Immediately after the aircraft struck the ground, a large piece of the plane was seen to break off ans fall blazing to the ground. The accompanying pilot lost sight of the aircraft as it was below the level of tree tops, and he was unable to state whether the pilot baled out. This incident occurred at approximately 1600 hours on the 25th November 1944, about six miles east of Amersfoort, Holland. Captured German documents state that an English aircraft crashed on the 25th November 1944, at Nulde, the community of Putten, and the body which was recovered from the wreckage was buried at 1500 hours on the 5th December 1944, in the cemetery at Putten.. A ring which was removed from the pilot?s body has been identified by the next-of-kin of Flying Officer Langille as belonging to him.