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Date: | Friday 24 March 1944 |
Time: | evening |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 640 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LW430 |
MSN: | C8-T |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Gerbis, near Jessen, Sachsen-Anhalt -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Leconfield, East Riding of Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:06 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
Crashed when returning from a bombing mission to Berlin, Germany. The Halifax was engaged by two single-engined pilots and one twin-engined fighter. The entire crew lost their life.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer William Collins McLeod RAFVR 160641 [Killed] (NCO:1553518 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 14 December, 1943)
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Angus Phillip Webb RAFVR 1385225 [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant Norman Leslie Cooper RAFVR 1600217 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Sidney William Wheeler RAFVR 656759 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant John Charles Burdett RAFVR 1334420 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Ronald Archibald George Turner RAFVR 914705 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Jack Northwood Boston RAFVR 1385337 [Killed]
Sources:
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?9512-GERMANY-Jessen-Halifax-LW430-crash-memorial]
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LW430 Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
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MZ579 |
640 Sqn RAF |
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neaar Brunssum, NW if Aachen, Limburg |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
16-Nov-2013 10:52 |
gerard57 |
Added |
20-Jun-2015 21:43 |
AlLah |
Updated [Operator] |
01-Apr-2020 09:12 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |