1918 - 2012
Phil Lamason Aviator
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Details
| Birthday |
15th September, 1918
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| Birthplace |
Napier, New Zealand
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| Died |
19th May, 2012
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| Place of Death |
Dannevirke, New Zealand
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| Zodiac Sign |
Virgo
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| Occupation |
Aviator
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Phillip John Lamason, DFC* (15 September 1918 – 19 May 2012)
was a pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during the Second World War, who rose to prominence as the senior officer in charge of 168 Allied airmen taken to Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, in August 1944. Raised in Napier, he joined the RNZAF in September 1940, and by April 1942 was a pilot officer serving with the Royal Air Force in Europe. On 8 June 1944, Lamason was in command of a Lancaster heavy bomber that was shot down during a raid on railway marshalling yards near Paris. Bailing out, he was picked up by members of the French Resistance and hidden at various locations for seven weeks. While attempting to reach Spain along the Comet line, Lamason was betrayed by an double agent within the Resistance and seized by the Gestapo.
