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
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]

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Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
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Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

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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]