Background
Flight Lieutenant Maxwell (Max) Kogon was born on October 1, 1920 to Edith and David Kogon as the youngest of eight children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Family On the first of his 37 missions he was told to bomb Hanover. After he finished this, severe icing on his motors caused them to stop rotating. After crossing the English Coast, both of the engines of his Handley-Page Halifax failed and his airspeed indicator became unusable.
He told his crew to bail out, but Maxwell stayed in the aircraft and successfully crash landed it without landing gear.
Flight Lieutenant Kogon mainly flew a Halifax but later switched to an Avro Lancaster. His most known target was the V-1 Base in Pennemunde.
1n 1945 he was discharged from the Royal Canadian Air Force. Postwar After the war, KLM offered Kogon a job as the chief flying instructor, but Kogon declined. As a Jew, he was contacted by the Irgun to be a fighter pilot during the anticipated War of independence but he said he preferred to wait for the Haggana to contact him because it was less intense.
However, they never contacted him.
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Membership
During World World War II, Flight Lieutenant Max Kogon was a member of 428 (Ghost) Squadron. He was the only member of his squadron to not be killed or captured in 18 months.
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1980 (aged 60)