Date:	Thursday 20 January 1944
Time:	19:45
Type:	Handley Page Halifax Mk II
Owner/operator:	102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF
Registration:	LW337
MSN:	DY-F
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 8
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Hirschgarten Friedrichshagen, Berlin -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Pocklington
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 16:30 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
Over Berlin, the aircraft was damaged by Leutnant Manfred Dieterle of the 3./JG 300, who was flying Bf 109 G-6 SO+XT from Brandis airfield in Sachsen; and by Flak.
Four crew members parachuted to safety before the plane crashed. Four other crew members died in the crash.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer George Albert Griffiths DFM RAF 141468 [PoW] (NCO:1212300 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 06 April, 1943)
2nd Pilot : Sergeant Kenneth Frederick Stanbridge RAFVR 1445546 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant John Bremner RAFVR 1567605 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Reginald Charles Wilson RAF 169553 [PoW] (NCO:911881 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 08 February, 1944)
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer Lawrence Arthur Underwood RAF 55204 [PoW] (Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 06 April, 1943)
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Pilot Officer Eric Arthur Church RAFVR 170702 [Killed] (NCO:1192645 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 29 February, 1944)
Mid-Upper Gunner : Warrant Officer Class II Charles Gordon Dupueis RCAF R/176437 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Horace Lionel Bushell RAF 1623401 [PoW]

https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive.cfm?storyid=E6B501D1-1143-EC82-2E177A53A99971FC
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/halifaxbomber/crashsite-halifax-jd470-and-lw337-20th-january-194-t578.html
findagrave.com
Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 39.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

26 June 1942	R9446	102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF	6	sea off Niedersachsen		mis
24 September 1942	W1055	102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF	7	Flensburger Förde near the U-Boot wharf, Schleswig-Holstein		w/o
9 November 1942	W7864	102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF	8	North Sea 35 km N of Ameland, Friesland		w/o
26 June 1943	JB843	102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF	7	Anna Paulownaweg, 't Zand, Noord-Holland		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
21-Jun-2015 08:29	gerard57	Added
21-Jun-2015 08:38	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Source]
07-Dec-2015 18:15	Froome	Updated [Operator]
19-Jan-2016 18:02	Opietz	Updated [Operator]
04-Jun-2016 16:03	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
23-Apr-2018 20:14	TigerTimon	Updated [Aircraft type]
14-Oct-2018 17:01	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
06-Dec-2019 20:59	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Source, Narrative]
20-Jan-2024 07:59	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]