Halifax (Total: 6,178, Canadian: 393, Group 393)
Handley Page Halifax
The Handley Page Halifax is a British Royal Air Force (RAF) four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War. It was developed by Handley Page to the same specification as the contemporary twin-engine Avro Manchester.
The Halifax has its origins in the twin-engine HP56 proposal of the late 1930s, produced in response to the British Air Ministry's Specification P.13/36 for a capable medium bomber for "world-wide use." The HP56 was ordered as a backup to the Avro 679, both aircraft being designed to use the underperforming Rolls-Royce Vulture engine. The Handley Page design was altered at the Ministry to a four-engine arrangement powered by the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine; the rival Avro 679 was produced as the twin-engine Avro Manchester which, while regarded as unsuccessful mainly due to the Vulture engine, was a direct predecessor of the famed Avro Lancaster. Both the Lancaster and the Halifax would emerge as capable four-engined strategic bombers, thousands of which would be built and operated by the RAF and several other services during the War.
On 25 October 1939, the Halifax performed its maiden flight, and it entered service with the RAF on 13 November 1940. It quickly became a major component of Bomber Command, performing routine strategic bombing missions against the Axis Powers, many of them at night. Arthur Harris, the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Bomber Command, described the Halifax as inferior to the rival Lancaster (in part due to its smaller payload) though this opinion was not shared by many of the crews that flew it, particularly for the MkIII variant. Nevertheless, production of the Halifax continued until April 1945. During their service with Bomber Command, Halifaxes flew a total of 82,773 operations and dropped 224,207 tons of bombs, while 1,833 aircraft were lost. The Halifax was also flown in large numbers by other Allied and Commonwealth nations, such as the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Free French Air Force and Polish forces. Wikipedia
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National Air Force Museum of CanadaHalifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL112
s/n LL112
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LL 112
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 4.45Units 520/Mediterranean Allied AirForces
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL113
s/n LL113
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LL 113
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434;1659;1664
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 434/1659Heavy Conversion Unit/1664HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL114
s/n LL114
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LL 114
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;138
Failed to Return, 8.2.44Unit 138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL115
s/n LL115
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LL 115
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;138
Flew into wood at Capil Green, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, while breaking cloud on return from ops, 17.12.43Unit 138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL116
s/n LL116
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LL 116
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;76
Failed to Return, Berlin, 21.1.44Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL117
s/n LL117
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LL 117
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off chargeUnit 517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL118
s/n LL118
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LL 118
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.4.45Unit 161/138/1663 heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL119
s/n LL119
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LL 119
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Abandonned-; aircraft hit sea off Felixstowe, Suffolk, 17.12.43Unit 161
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL120
s/n LL120
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LL 120
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Abandonned after ops, aircraft crashed into sea near Skegness, Lincs, 17.12.43Unit 161
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL121
s/n LL121
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LL 121
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Frankfurt, 21.12.43Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL122
s/n LL122
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LL 122
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;77
Spun into ground near Levening, Yorks, 9.12.43Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL123
s/n LL123
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LL 123
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Disappeared while on meteorological flight over the Atlantic 21.1.45Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL124
s/n LL124
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LL 124
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 1.11.45Units 77/346/347/1662 heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL125
s/n LL125
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LL 125
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Frankfurt, 21.12.43Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL126
s/n LL126
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LL 126
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Dived into ground at Long Ashton, Bristol, while on cross country, 21.11.44Units 77/346/347/1662 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL127
s/n LL127
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LL 127
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 77/1662 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL128
s/n LL128
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LL 128
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on take-off from Elvington for ops, Magdeburg and undercarriage collapsed20.1.44Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL129
s/n LL129
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LL 129
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;298
Failed to Return, Special Operations Executive operations, "Stationer 175" 16.7.44Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL130
s/n LL130
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LL 130
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Laon, 24.3.44Units 76/77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL131
s/n LL131
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LL 131
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1659;1666
Undercarriage collapsed on landing at Wombleton, 27.11.44Units 76/346/347/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/1666HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL132
s/n LL132
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LL 132
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1659
Struck off charge, 24.11.44Units 192/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/1669HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL133
s/n LL133
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LL 133
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Destroyed in hangar by Halifax JP128,, Rufforth, 16.11.44Units 77/1663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL134
s/n LL134
U
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LL 134
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded WL*U. Bombed Magdeburg on 21 January 1944. Failed to return from attack on Berlin, shot down by a night fighter on 28 / 29 January 1944. All POW.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Berlin Germany 1944-01-28 to 1944-01-29
434 (B) Sqn (RCAF) RAF Croft
Battle of Berlin
434 Bluenose Squadron (In Excelsis Vincimus) RAF Croft. Halifax BV aircraft LL134 WL-U was attacked by a night fighter 21,000 feet over the target area of Berlin Germany and abandoned by the crew
The entire crew survived the crash
Squadron Leader J E Hockey (RCAF), Flying Officer L C Bannister (RCAF), Flight Lieutenant J Ferguson (RCAF), Warrant Officer S Saprunoff (RCAF), Pilot Officer J Acquier (RAFVR), Pilot Officer G Borrett (RAFVR), Pilot Officer F G Hearsey (RAFVR) and Flying Officer G B Poad (RAFVR) all became Prisoners of War
There were four other 434 Squadron Halifax V aircraft lost on this operation. Please see Halifax aircraft serials EB 256 WL-S, LK 649 WL-X, LK 740 WL-V and LK 916 WL-P for further information on these aircraft and crews
1944-January-29 PoW RAF Flying Officer John Francis Acquier 2023-12-16
1944-January-29 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Lorne Crosby Bannister 2024-07-14 1944-January-29 PoW RAF Pilot Officer George Borrett 2023-12-16 1944-January-29 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant Jock Ferguson 2024-07-14 1944-January-29 PoW RAF Pilot Officer Frederick George Hearsey 2023-12-16 1944-January-29 PoW RCAF Squadron Leader John Eric Hockey 2024-07-14 1944-January-29 PoW RAF Flying Officer George Brian Poad 2023-12-16 1944-January-29 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Stephen Saprunoff 2024-07-14 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL135
s/n LL135
R
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LL 135
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded WL*R. Dispatched to Leipzig on 1 December 1943, returned early after engine failure. Failed to return from attack on Berlin, shot down by flak over target, on 20 / 21 January 1944. 5 killed & 2 POW. One of 4 squadron aircraft lost on this mission.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Clarence Samuel Brest 2024-10-23 1944-January-20 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Leslie Hubert Doe 2024-10-23 1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Mike Gnius 2024-10-23
1944-January-20 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer Henry Bolton Hill 2024-10-23 1944-January-20 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant Wilfred Mervyn Kipp 2024-10-23 1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Sergeant John Robert Morgan 2024-10-23 1944-January-20 PoW RCAF Flying Officer James Snowsell 2024-10-23 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL136
s/n LL136
E
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LL 136
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434;1659;1666
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "WL*E". Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 434/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/1666HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL137
s/n LL137
D
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LL 137
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434;1664;1664
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "WL*D". Claimed a twin engined night fighter shot down on 9 April 1944 during raid on Lille. collied with Halifax,JP201 at 18,000 feet over Devon, 15.11.44Units 434/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-November-15 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Neville Joseph Anderson 2024-11-02 1944-November-15 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Jack Edward Armstrong 2025-01-16 1944-November-15 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Gilbert Louis Oscar Berg 2025-01-16 1944-November-15 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Norman Holmes Boss 2024-11-14 1944-November-15 KIFA RCAF Sergeant John Gamborski 2025-01-16 1944-November-15 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Robert Leslie Garvie 2025-01-16 1944-November-15 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Gerald Frederick Higgins 2025-01-16 1944-November-15 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Ernest James Pridham 2025-01-16 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL138
s/n LL138
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LL 138
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;77;424
Failed to Return, Orleans, 23.5.44Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL139
s/n LL139
D
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LL 139
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 427
Served with No. 427 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded ZL*D. Failed to return from attack on Magdeburg on 21/22 January 1944, attacked by a night fighter and exploded in mid-air. 7 crew were killed and 1 POW.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Magdeburg Germany 1944-01-21 to 1944-01-22
427 (B) Sqn (RCAF) Leeming
Battle of Berlin
648 aircraft- 42 I Lancasters, 224 Halifaxes, 3 Mosquitoes - on the first major raid to this target. The German controller again followed the progress of the bomber stream across the North Sea and many night fighters were in the stream before it crossed the German coast. The controller was very slow to identify Magdeburg as the target but this did not matter too much because most of the night fighters were able to stay in the bomber stream, a good example of the way the Tame Boar tactics were developing. 57 aircraft - 35 Halifaxes, 22 Lancasters - were lost, 8·8 per cent of the force; it is probable that three quarters of the losses were caused by German night fighters. The Halifax loss rate was 15·6 per cent!
The heavy bomber casualties were not rewarded with a successful attack. Some of the Main Force aircraft now had H2S and winds which were stronger than forecast brought some of these into the target area before the Pathfinders' Zero Hour. The crews of 27 Main Force aircraft were anxious to bomb and did so before Zero Hour. The Pathfinders blamed the fires started by this early bombing, together with some very effective German decoy markers, for their failure to concentrate the marking. No details are available from Magdeburg but it is believed that most of the bombing fell outside the city. An R.A.F. man who was in hospital at Magdeburg at the time reports only, 'bangs far away'
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
427 Lion Squadron (Ferte Manus Certas) RAF Leeming. Halifax BV aircraft LL 139 ZL-D missing during night operations against Magdeburg, Germany. The aircraft was attacked by a German night fighter while leaving Magdeburg at 19,500 feet. The aircraft was severely damaged and the order to bale out was given at 14,000 feet, but the bomber exploded almost immediately, before most crew members could react. The bomber crashed 3 km east of Unseburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Pilot, Squadron Leader DM Arnott DFC (RCAF), second pilot W/C AN Martin (RCAF), Pilot Officer LWW Jones (RCAF), Pilot Officer LS Gray (RCAF), Pilot Officer RO Nickerson (RCAF), Pilot Officer R Dawson (RAFVR) and Pilot Officer RAN Rondelet (RAF) were all killed in action
Pilot Officer Nickerson was killed in the air and the rest of the crew were found dead in the wreckage.
The bomb aimer Flying Officer WV Thom (RCAF), was blown clear, the only crew member to survive and was taken Prisoner of War
There were four 427 Squadron Halifax V aircraft lost on this operation. Please see Toal, GWC for information on Halifax LK 923 ZL-B, Martin, N for information on Halifax LL 169 ZL-L and Warwick, VM for information on Halifax LL 176 ZL-Q
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21/22.01.1944 427 Squadron Halifax III LL139 ZL-D Sqn.Ldr. Arnott, DFC, ...
1944-January-22 KIA RCAF Squadron Leader Donald Mackenzie Arnot DFC 2024-10-05 1944-January-22 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer Raymond Dawson 2024-10-05 1944-January-22 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Leonard Samuel Gray 2024-10-05 1944-January-22 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Lloyd William Wesley Jones 2024-10-05 1944-January-22 KIA RCAF Wing Commander Arthur Norman Martin 2024-10-05 1944-January-22 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Roland Otis Nickerson 2024-10-05 1944-January-22 KIA RAF Pilot Officer Reve Achille Nicholas Rondelet 2024-10-05 1944-January-22 PoW RCAF Flying Officer William Victor Thom 2024-10-05 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL140
s/n LL140
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LL 140
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Berlin, crashed near Schwerin, Germany, 16.2.44Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL141
s/n LL141
H
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LL 141
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded WL*H. Bombed Frankfurt on 20 December 1943. Failed to return from attack on Berlin on 20/21 January 1944. All were killed.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-January-21 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Victor George Baker 2024-11-01 1944-January-21 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Colin Campbell Cassy 2024-12-04 1944-January-21 KIA RCAF Flying Officer James Thomas Clinkskill 2024-12-04 1944-January-21 KIA RAFVR Sergeant David James Gillam 2024-12-04 1944-January-21 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Charles John Jones 2024-12-04 1944-January-21 KIA RCAF Sergeant Edward William Harold McCaffrey 2024-12-04 1944-January-21 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Russell Sloan 2024-12-04 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL142
s/n LL142
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LL 142
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431;434;1659
Starboard outer engine failed after take-off, crashed half mile north of Skipton-On-Swale, Yorks, 18.7.44Units 434/431/1659 heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL143
s/n LL143
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LL 143
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Leipzig, 20.2.44Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL144
s/n LL144
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LL 144
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Port outer engine failed, ditched in Atlantic, 6.6.44Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL145
s/n LL145
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LL 145
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 6.1.47Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL146
s/n LL146
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LL 146
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 20.7.45Units 298/644/1674 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL147
s/n LL147
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LL 147
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 15.2.45Units 298/1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL148
s/n LL148
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LL 148
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on landing at Tilstock and hit building, 20.10.44Units 298/1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL149
s/n LL149
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LL 149
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 8.3.45Units 298/296/1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL150
s/n LL150
N
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LL 150
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431
last update: 2025-June-12
Bombing Berlin Germany 1944-01-28 to 1944-01-29
431 (B) Sqn (RCAF) RAF Croft
Battle of Berlin
677 aircraft - 432 Lancasters, 241 Halifaxes, 4 Mosquitoes. Part of the German fighter force was drawn up by the early diversions and the bomber approach route over Northern Denmark proved too distant for some of the other German fighters. The German controller was, however, able to concentrate his fighters over the target and many aircraft were shot down there. 46 aircraft - 26 Halifaxes, 20 Lancasters - lost, 6.8 per cent of the force.
.The cloud over Berlin was broken and some ground-marking was possible but the Bomber Command claim that this was the most concentrated attack of this period is not quite fully confirmed by German records. The western and southern districts were hit but so too were 77 places outside the. city. The Berlin recording system was now showing an increasing deterioration. No overall figure for property damage was recorded; approximately 180,000 people were bombed out on this night. Although many industrial firms were again hit, the feature of this night is the unusually high proportion of administrative and public buildings appearing in the lists of buildings hit: the new Chancellery, 4 theatres, the 'French' cathedral, 6 hospitals, 5 embassies, the State Patent Office, etc. The report concludes with this entry: 'The casualties are still not known but they are bound to be considerable. It is reported that a vast amount of wreckage must still be cleared; rescue workers are among the mountains of it.".
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt, page 468
431 Iroquois Squadron (The hatiten ronterios) RAF Croft. Halifax V aircraft LL 150 SE-N was hit by flak returning an operation against targets in Berlin, Germany and lost the port-inner engine and sustained a fuel leak. The pilot managed to fly back close to the Lincolnshire, England coast where the order to bale was given. Three crew members were lost including pilot, Warrant Officer Class II J T R Corriveau (RCAF), killed in action, whose body was recovered and buried in England
Pilot Officer J D Barrie (RCAF) and Sergeant J P Raymond (RCAF) were missing presumed killed in action. The missing have no known grave and both are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
The remaining four crew members: Flight Sergeant M J Charlebois (RCAF), Pilot Officer R S Cole (RCAF), Pilot Officer S C B Parker (RAFVR) and Pilot Officer G S Webber (RAFVR) all survived and were rescued shortly after baling into the water of the English channel by a of minesweepers: HMS VARANGA, HMS PROSPECT, HMS PROPERTY and HMS PENNYSLADE and taken in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire
Three other 431 Squadron Halifax V aircraft were lost on this operation. Please see aircraft serials LK 918 SE-F, LK 963 SE-H and LL 181 SE-Q for additional information
Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database
1944 Lincolnshire aviation Incident Logs (World War 2) - BCAR.org.uk
1944-January-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Donald Barrie 2024-12-25 1944-January-29 Rescued RCAF Flight Sergeant M J Charlebois 2024-04-25 1944-January-29 Rescued RCAF Pilot Officer Ralph Stewart Cole 2024-04-25 1944-January-29 Rescued RCAF Pilot Officer Ralph Stewart Cole 2023-04-13 1944-January-29 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Thomas Raymond Corriveau 2024-04-25 1944-January-29 Rescued RAFVR Pilot Officer Stanley Charles Brian Parker 2023-12-31 1944-January-29 KIA RCAF Sergeant Jean-Paul Raymond 2024-04-25 1944-January-29 Rescued RAFVR Pilot Officer George Samuel Webber 2023-12-31 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL151
s/n LL151
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LL 151
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431;1664
Starboard inner engine caught fire while taxiing at Dishforth after landing, 30.10.44Units 431/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL152
s/n LL152
U
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LL 152
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431
last update: 2025-June-12
Bombing Amiens France 1944-03-15 to 1944-03-15
(B) Sqn (RCAF) Croft
Battle of Berlin
After attack on rail yards at Amiens on 15/16 March 1944 where 15 French civilians were killed, Halifax Mk.V LL 152, , had a 500 lb bomb load hung up. The bomb dropped and exploded at the end of the runway during landing on the aerodrome at Croft, England. Pilot Officer L.R. Barker and four crew members, not Canadians, were also killed.
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL153
s/n LL153
K
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LL 153
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 427;429;431
Served with No. 431 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded SE*K. Bombed Lille, France on 8/9 April 1944. Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 427/429/431/1667 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL167
s/n LL167
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LL 167
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 427;429;434;1659;1664
Struck off charge, !.11.45Units 427/429/434/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/1664HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL168
s/n LL168
S
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LL 168
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 427;429;431;434;1659
With No. 429 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "AL*M", when it bombed Berlin on 15/16 February 1944. Served with No. 434 Squadron, RCAF, coded WL*S when it bombed Frankfurt on 18/19 March 1944. Attacked by an Fw 190, returned safely to base. Crashed out of control 1/2 mile west of Topcliffe, after power loss while on circuits 31.8.44Units 427/429/434/431/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL169
s/n LL169
L
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LL 169
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 427
Served with No. 427 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded ZL*L. Failed to return from attack on Magdeburg on 21/22 January 1944, shot down by a night fighter. All POW.last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL170
s/n LL170
N
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LL 170
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 427;429;431;434;1659
Served with No. 429 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded AL*N. Bombed Berlin on 28/29 January 1944. Struck off charge, 12.8.45Units 427/429/434/431/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL171
s/n LL171
U
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LL 171
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 427;429;434;434;1659
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded T. Also with No. 429 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "AL*U" when it bombed Magdeburg on 21/22 January 1944, received slight damage. Still with this unit when it bombed Berlin on 28/29 January 1944. Severe starboard wing damage from attack by Ju 88, returned to base. Undercarriage collapsed on three engined landing at Topcliffe, 13.8.44Units 427/429/434/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL172
s/n LL172
B
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LL 172
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 427;429;431;1659
Served with No. 431 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded SE*B. Bombed Lille, France on 9/10 April 1944. Bombed Ghent on 10/11 April 1944. Groundlooped on landing at Langar, hit aircraft and caught fire, 4.12.44Units 427/429/431/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/1669HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL173
s/n LL173
C
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LL 173
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431;434
Served with No. 431 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded SE*C.last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL174
s/n LL174
A
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LL 174
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431;431;1664
Served with No. 431 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded SE*A. Struck off Charge, 31.8.45Units 431/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL175
s/n LL175
A
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LL 175
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431;431;1664
Served with No. 431 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded SE*A. Struck off charge, 2.6.45Unit 431/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL176
s/n LL176
Q
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LL 176
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 427
Served with No. 427 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded ZL*Q. Failed to return from attack on Magdeburg on 21/22 January 1944. 6 crew were killed and 1 POW.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-January-22 KIA RAFVR Sergeant James Ivor Jones 2024-04-21 1944-January-22 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Raphael Nicholas Lehman 2021-06-21 1944-January-22 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Ian Lloyd MacKeigan 2024-04-22 1944-January-22 KIA RAFVR Sergeant William Thomas Morgan 2024-04-23 1944-January-22 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Charles Patrick Ryan 2024-05-01 1944-January-22 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Vincent Maurice Warwick 2024-05-03 1944-January-22 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Robert Norman Weir 2024-05-03 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL177
s/n LL177
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LL 177
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431;434;1664
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 431/434/1664 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL178
s/n LL178
R
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LL 178
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 427;429;434
Served with No. 429 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "AL*V", when it bombed Berlin on 15/16 February 1944, and Leipzig on 19/20 February 1944. With No. 434 (B)Squadron, coded "WL*R" when lost on 18 / 19 March 1944. Crashed into bank near Arden Hall, Hawnby, Yorks, possibly after engine fire, on return near Thirsk, Yorkshire after a diversionary mining operation to Heligoland, in support of main raid on Frankfurt. All 8 crew were killed. Aircraft had been holding due to poor weather at base, when it descended into high ground.Units 427/429/434
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-March-18 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Edson Gilroy Armour 2024-11-03 1944-March-18 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Elmer Ballentine 2024-11-05 1944-March-18 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Walter Cotton 2024-04-30 1944-March-18 KIA RCAF Flying Officer David Carson Evans 2022-08-05 1944-March-18 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer Geoffrey Hutt 2021-06-27 1944-March-18 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Donald Edward Jackson 2022-12-31 1944-March-18 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Simon Sleigher 2021-06-27 1944-March-18 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Douglas Andrew Thicke 2021-06-27 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL179
s/n LL179
K
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LL 179
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431;434;434
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded WL*K. Failed to return from attack on Berlin on 20/21 January 1944, shot down by a night fighter. 4 killed & 3 POW.Units 431/434
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-January-20 PoW RAF Sergeant Ronald Thomas Cox 2024-08-08 1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Philip Robert Arthur Dack 2024-08-08 1944-January-20 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Warren Clarence Drumm 2024-10-29 1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Sergeant John Andrew McKenna 2022-04-18 1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Gordon Charles Mould 2022-04-16 1944-January-20 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Edward Joseph Charles Porter 2022-04-16 1944-January-20 PoW RCAF Warrant Officer 2 Albert Mowat Wilson 2024-08-08 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL180
s/n LL180
F
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LL 180
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 428;431;434
Served with No. 428 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded NA*R. With No. 431 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "SE*F" when it bombed on Berlin 15/16 February 1944. Attacked by a Ju 88, severely damaged. Returned early from mission to Lille, France on 9/10 April 1944, after multiple instrument failures. Bombed Ghent on 10/11 April 1944. Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 431/428/431/434/1667 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL181
s/n LL181
Q
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LL 181
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431
last update: 2025-June-12
Bombing Berlin Germany 1944-01-28 to 1944-01-29
(B) Sqn (RCAF) Croft
Battle of Berlin
677 aircraft - 432 Lancasters, 241 Halifaxes, 4 Mosquitoes. Part of the German fighter force was drawn up by the early diversions and the bomber approach route over Northern Denmark proved too distant for some of the other German fighters. The German controller was, however, able to concentrate his fighters over the target and many aircraft were shot down there. 46 aircraft - 26 Halifaxes, 20 Lancasters - lost, 6·8 per cent of the force.
.The cloud over Berlin was broken and some ground-marking was possible but the Bomber Command claim that this was the most concentrated attack of this period is not quite fully confirmed by German records. The western and southern districts were hit but so too were 77 places outside the. city. The Berlin recording system was now showing an increasing deterioration. No overall figure for property damage was recorded; approximately 180,000 people were bombed out on this night. Although many industrial firms were again hit, the feature of this night is the unusually high proportion of administrative and public buildings appearing in the lists of buildings hit: the new Chancellery, 4 theatres, the 'French' cathedral, 6 hospitals, 5 embassies, the State Patent Office, etc. The report concludes with this entry: 'The casualties are still not known but they are bound to be considerable. It is reported that a vast amount of wreckage must still be cleared; rescue workers are among the mountains of it.".
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Halifax V aircraft LL 181 SE-Q was missing east of Zinndorf, Germany, near the target of Berlin, Germany. The Halifax was likely shot down by a night fighter, but the cause of loss and crash location could not be determined
Pilot Officer AC Thompson (RCAF), Flying Officer R MacLean (RCAF), Pilot Officer WR Hewetson, Sergeant NA Bell (RCAF), Sergeant GF Carter (RAFVR), FS GT Moody (RAFVR) and Sergeant J McIver (RAFVR) were killed in action
There were two other Halifax V aircraft lost on this operation, on this date. Please see Rowe, BS for information on Halifax LK 963 SE-H and Raymond, JP for information on Halifax LL 150 SE-N
1944-January-29 KIA RCAF Sergeant Norman Andrew Bell 2024-11-11 1944-January-29 KIA RAFVR Sergeant George Frederick Carter 2025-01-13 1944-January-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Russell Hewetson 2025-01-13 1944-January-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Roy Maclean 2025-01-13 1944-January-29 KIA RAFVR Sergeant James McIver 2025-01-13 1944-January-29 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant George Thomas Moody 2025-01-13 1944-January-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Arthur Cameron Thompson 2025-01-13 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL182
s/n LL182
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LL 182
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Collided with another 161 squadron aircraft while on anti submarine recon search off east coast, missing, 23.1.44Unit 161
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL183
s/n LL183
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LL 183
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;161
Missing while on special operations executive sortie while on loan to 138 squadron, 10.5.44Unit 161
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL184
s/n LL184
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LL 184
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;77
Failed to Return, Leipzig, 20.2.44Unit 76/77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL185
s/n LL185
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LL 185
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;76
Failed to Return, Magdeburg, 23.1.44Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL186
s/n LL186
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LL 186
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Collided with Halifax LL296 in flight, crashed and caught fire, 16.8.44Units 517/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL187
s/n LL187
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LL 187
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Special operations Executive mission to Poland 29.12.44Units 138/1663 Heavy Conversion Unit/1 Ferry Unit/ 301
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL188
s/n LL188
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LL 188
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 28.3.45Units 517/520
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL189
s/n LL189
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LL 189
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on takeoff from Holme-On-Spalding Moor, crashed and burnt, 11.2.44Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL190
s/n LL190
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LL 190
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Magdeburg, 26.1.44Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL191
s/n LL191
N
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LL 191
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 427
Served with No. 427 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded ZL*N. Crashed at Worstead, north of Walsham, after hitting trees and wires on approach, and burnt, 20.1.44Unit 427
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-January-20 Survived RCAF Sergeant G L Bernier 2025-01-17 1944-January-20 KIA RAFVR Flying Officer Laurence George Biddiscombe 2025-01-17 1944-January-20 KIA RAFVR Flying Officer William Arthur Cozens 2024-05-10 1944-January-20 KIA RAFVR Sergeant John McGowan 2025-01-17 1944-January-20 KIA RAFVR Sergeant William Leslie Stockford 2025-01-17 1944-January-20 Survived RAFVR Sergeant HP Whittaker 2025-01-17 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL192
s/n LL192
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LL 192
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;138
Missing, 8.5.44, crashed in KattegatUnit 138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL193
s/n LL193
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LL 193
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 10.4.45Unit 520
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL194
s/n LL194
C
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LL 194
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 427;429;431;431;1664;77
Served with No. 427 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded ZL*C. Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 427/429/77/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL195
s/n LL195
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LL 195
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 22.3.45Unit 520
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL196
s/n LL196
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LL 196
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 427;429
Groundlooped on takeoff from Leeming and undercarriage collapsed, 1.2.44Units 427/429
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL197
s/n LL197
L
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LL 197
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 427;429
Served with No. 429 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "AL*L". Failed to return from attack on Berlin on 20/21 January 1944, shot down by a night fighter. Came down between the villages of Stapel and Zeetze. 6 killed & 1 POW.Units 427/429
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Audrey Allen Ayres 2024-11-04 1944-January-20 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant William Henry Bryant 2024-11-23 1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Norman Edward Carter 2024-04-04 1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Benjamin Nelson Forster 2025-03-18 1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Harold Douglas Paddison 2025-03-18 1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Jack McAllister Ramsay 2025-03-18 1944-January-20 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Ralph Alexander Saffran 2025-03-18 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL198
s/n LL198
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LL 198
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 298/644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL213
s/n LL213
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LL 213
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 15.5.45Units 520/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL214
s/n LL214
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LL 214
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 12.4.45Units 520/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL215
s/n LL215
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LL 215
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 1.11.45Units 76/1663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL216
s/n LL216
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LL 216
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 11.5.45Units 517/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL217
s/n LL217
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LL 217
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 30.5.45Units 298/644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL218
s/n LL218
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LL 218
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 22.3.45Units 298/644/297/1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL219
s/n LL219
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LL 219
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 25.5.45Units 644/297/48 Maintenance Unit/Handley Page
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL220
s/n LL220
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LL 220
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 18.5.45Units 517/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL221
s/n LL221
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LL 221
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 14.6.45Units 518/517/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL222
s/n LL222
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LL 222
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 9.8.45Units 48 Maintenance Unit/Controller of Research and Development N. Luffenham
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL223
s/n LL223
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LL 223
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 1.11.45Units 48 Maintenance Unit/Gen Aircraft Ltd/48 Maintenance Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL224
s/n LL224
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LL 224
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 1.11.45Units 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL225
s/n LL225
L
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LL 225
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431;434
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "WL*L". Damaged over target during attack on the rail yards at Aulnoye on 25/26 March 1944. Starboard inner engine u/s, crash-landed at Friston after being hit by mysterious object over target, crew ok.Units 431/434
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL226
s/n LL226
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LL 226
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Finningley and burnt 31.10.44Units 77/1667 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL227
s/n LL227
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LL 227
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 9.6.45Units 77/346/347/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit/1667 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL228
s/n LL228
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LL 228
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Failed to Return, special Operations Executive, 6.4.44Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL229
s/n LL229
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LL 229
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;77
Failed to return, Amiens, 16.3.44Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL230
s/n LL230
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LL 230
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 431/1667 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL231
s/n LL231
J
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LL 231
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431
Served with No. 431 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded SE*J. Bombed Lille, France on 9/10 April 1944. Ground looped on landing after port inboard engine failed, and struck Wellington, LN535, Gamston, 7.6.44Units 431/1667 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL232
s/n LL232
R
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LL 232
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431;434;1659
Served with No. 431 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded SE*R. Bombed Lille, France on 9/10 April 1944. Bombed Ghent on 10/11 April 1944. Struck trees during crash landing 1/2 mile west of Topcliffe, 24.10.44Units 431/434/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL233
s/n LL233
Y
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LL 233
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431;434;1659;1664
Served with No. 431 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded SE*Y. Bombed Lille, France on 8/9 April 1944. Operated by No. 434 (B) Squadron, possibly coded "WL*Y", when it shot down a Ju88 during a mining mission to Kiel Bay on 23 April 1944. Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 431/434/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/1664 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL234
s/n LL234
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LL 234
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 17.5.45Units 76/77/Empire Central Flying School
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL235
s/n LL235
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 235
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Mining, 24.4.44Units 76/77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL236
s/n LL236
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LL 236
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 1.11.45Units 138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL237
s/n LL237
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 237
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 22.5.45Units 76/77/346/347/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit/1652HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL238
s/n LL238
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 238
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on takeoff from Marston Moor and hit Halifax LL508, 20.11.44Units 77/346/347/1658 heavy Conversion Unit/1652HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL239
s/n LL239
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 239
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;77
Failed to Return, Leipzig, 20.2.44Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL240
s/n LL240
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LL 240
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434;1664
Crashed after Takeoff and burnt, 4 miles west of Dishforth, 17.10.44Units 434/1664 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-October-17 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer John Frederick Landsky 2021-08-13 1944-October-17 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer William John Lee 2022-01-23 1944-October-17 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Elmer John Neumann 2021-08-17 1944-October-17 KIFA RCAF Sergeant James Lee Powell 2021-08-12 1944-October-17 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Gordon Leonard Spencer 2021-07-23 1944-October-17 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer George John Strickland 2021-07-21 
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL241
s/n LL241
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LL 241
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434;1659
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 434/1659 heavy conversion Unit/1669 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL242
s/n LL242
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 242
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 76/77/346/347/1663 Heavy conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL243
s/n LL243
U
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LL 243
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "WL*U". Failed to return from attack on the rail yards at Montzen on 27/28 April 1944, shot down by a night fighter. 4 killed, 1 POW, 2 evaded. Came down near Wittem, Hollandlast update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Montzen Belgium 1944-04-27 to 1944-04-28
434 (B) Sqn (RCAF) RAF Croft
434 Bluenose Squadron (In Excelsis Vincimus) RAF Croft. Halifax BV aircraft LL 243 WL-U named "The Bluenose Outlaw" was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Georg Fengler of the Stab IV/NJG 1, who had taken off from Sint-Truiden airfield, Belgium in Bf 110 G-4 G9+CF during an operation on the rail yards at Montzen, Belgium. The Halifax crashed at Cartilserveldweg Road, Eys, Limburg, Netherlands
Pilot Officer GW Snow CG(Belgium) w/palm (RCAF), Flight Lieutenant GF Maffre CG(Belgium) w/palm (RCAF), Flight Sergeant RA Meek CG(Belgium) w/palm (RCAF) and Pilot Officer VJ Cownden CG(Belgium) w/palm (RCAF) were all killed in action
Sergeant AW Fuller (RAFVR) survived and was taken Prisoner of War
Flying Officer AG Stacey (RCAF) and Flying Officer JEJ Arscott (RAFVR) survived and escaped capture as Evaders
There were two 434 Squadron Halifax v aircraft lost on this operation. Please see aircraft serial LL 258 WL-N for additional information
RCAF Halifax LL-243-Oorlog in Limburg
Memorial Royal Canadian Airforce Halifax LL243-Wittem-...
1944-April-28 Evader RAFVR Flying Officer John Edward James Arscott 2023-03-26 1944-April-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Vincent Joseph Cownden CDGBP 2024-05-07 1944-April-28 PoW RAFVR Sergeant Allan William Fuller 2023-03-26 1944-April-28 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Gerald Frederick Maffre CDGBP 2023-03-26 1944-April-28 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Robert Alexander Meek CDGBP 2023-03-27 1944-April-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Grenfell William Snow CDGBP 2024-06-27 1944-April-28 Evader RCAF Flying Officer Arthur Gordon Stacey 2023-03-26 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL244
s/n LL244
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 244
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Berlin, 18.2.44Units 76/77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL245
s/n LL245
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 245
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431;434;1664
Struck off charge 1.11.45units 431/1664 Heavy Conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL246
s/n LL246
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 246
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45units 76/77/346/347/1662 Heavy Conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL247
s/n LL247
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 247
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434;1659
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 434/1659 Heavy conversion Unit/1669HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL248
s/n LL248
K
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LL 248
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "WL*K". Dispatched at 16:37 to bomb Frankfurt on 20 December 1943. Jettisoned bombs at 17:21 and returned to base after port outer engine caught fire.Failed to Return, Special Operations Executive,5.8.44, crashed 3 miles southwest of Vitry-le-Francois
Units 161
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL249
s/n LL249
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 249
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1659
Struck off charge 1.5.45Units 161/138/1 Ferry Unit/2 Oversea Aircraft Delivery Unit/148/1 Ferry Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL250
s/n LL250
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LL 250
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 16.8.45Units 161/138/1 Ferry Unit/2 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit/148/1 Ferry Unit/
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL251
s/n LL251
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LL 251
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Missing on Operations 12.7.44Units 161/138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL252
s/n LL252
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 252
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;138
Missing on Operations, 1.4.44Units 161/138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL253
s/n LL253
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LL 253
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 1.11.45Units 77/346/347/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit/1652 Heavy Conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL254
s/n LL254
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LL 254
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, Struck off charge, 23.12.44Units 161/138/2 Overseas Aircraft Development Unit/Mediterranean Allied Aircraft forces
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL255
s/n LL255
V
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 255
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "WL*V". Failed to return from attack on Leipzig on 19/20 February 1944. All were killed.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Clifford Mcneil Broadfoot 2024-11-18 1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James William Donnelly 2024-10-26 1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Douglas Hayter 2024-04-21 1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Edward McGregor 2024-04-22 1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Charles Leonard Murray 2024-04-23 1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Archibald Gordon Pearce 2024-05-01 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL256
s/n LL256
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 256
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Belly-landed at Middle Wallop due to fuel shortage, 20.9.44Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL257
s/n LL257
Z
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 257
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "WL*Z". Failed to return from attack on Leipzig on 19/20 February 1944, shot down by a night fighter. 4 crew were killed and 3 POW.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Henry Denys Beames 2024-11-09 1944-February-20 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant William James Gallagher 2021-02-16 1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer George Charles Hatch 2022-10-22 1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Reginald George Jennings 2023-01-05 1944-February-20 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Dalton Leonard Temple 2023-08-13 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL258
s/n LL258
W
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 258
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431;434
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "WL*W". Bombed Lille, France on 9/10 April 1944. Bombed Ghent on 10/11 April 1944. Failed to return from attack on the rail yards at Montzen on 27/28 April 1944, shot down by a night fighter All were killed.Units 431/434
last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Montzen Belgium 1944-04-27 to 1944-04-28
434 (B) Sqn (RCAF) RAF Croft
434 Bluenose Squadron (In Excelsis Vincimus) RAF Croft. Halifax BV aircraft LL 258 WL-W was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of Stab IV/NJG 1 from Sint-Truiden, Belgium in Bf 110 G-4 G9+DF. The Halifax was on an operation against the rail yards at Montzen, Belgium and crashed near Teuven, Voeren, Limburg, Belgium
Pilot Officer DA Pastorius (RCAF), Flying Officer AE Young (RCAF), Flying Officer WR Ellwood (RCAF), Pilot Officer HAA Breeze (RCAF), Pilot Officer EA Vigor (RCAF), Flight Sergeant CH Havill (RCAF) and Sergeant AB Randall (RAFVR) were all killed in action
There were two 434 squadron Halifax V aircraft lost on this operation. Please see aircraft serial LL 243 WL-U for additional information
Oberleutnant Schnaufer was one of the top German night fighter pilots, who shot down 121 Allied bombers during the war. The Imperial War Museum in London has part of his aircraft on display. He was killed in a car accident in France in 1950
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1944-April-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Harold Arthur Alexander Breeze 2023-03-27 1944-April-28 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Ralph Ellwood 2023-03-27 1944-April-28 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Charles Henry Havill 2023-03-27 1944-April-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Donald Arthur Pastorius 2023-03-27 1944-April-28 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Arthur Bernard Randall 2023-03-27 1944-April-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Edmund Arthur Vigor 2025-02-02 1944-April-28 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Albert Edward Young 2023-03-27 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL270
s/n LL270
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 270
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge 1.11.45Units 51/644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL271
s/n LL271
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 271
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge 26.3.45Units 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL272
s/n LL272
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 272
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 1.11.45Aeroplane and Armanent Experimental Establishment
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL273
s/n LL273
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 273
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Flew into high ground during supply drop 15 kms from Dijon, France 11.9.45Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL274
s/n LL274
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 274
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 31.5.45Units 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL275
s/n LL275
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 275
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 31.5.45Units 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL276
s/n LL276
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 276
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;138
Missing on Operations, 1.6.44Unit 138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL277
s/n LL277
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 277
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 31.5.45Units 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL278
s/n LL278
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 278
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 1.11.45Units 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL279
s/n LL279
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 279
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;138
Missing on Operations, 4.3.44Units 138
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-March-04 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James Roy Dutton 2024-10-31 1944-March-04 PoW RCAF Sergeant Earl Foster Gillcash 2021-02-01 1944-March-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Charles Kingsley 2023-09-24 1944-March-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer George Albert Roberts 2023-09-24 1944-March-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Edgar Wright 2023-09-24 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL280
s/n LL280
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 280
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;138
Missing on Operations 8.5.44Unit 138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL281
s/n LL281
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 281
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crashed and burnt due to engine failure on take-off at Tilstock, 6.12.44Units 644/297/1665 heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL282
s/n LL282
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 282
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 12.7.45Units 138/1 Ferry Unit/ 2 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit/ Mediterranean Allied Air Forces
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL283
s/n LL283
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 283
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 429;434;1664
Abandonned after engine caught fire, crashed at Llanystumdwy, Caernarvon, 31.8.44Units 429/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL284
s/n LL284
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 284
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crash landed and caught fire after take-off from Tempsford for ops, 2.6.44Unit 138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL285
s/n LL285
K
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 285
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434;434;1659;1666
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded WL*K. Bombed Frankfurt on 18/19 March 1944, attacked by a Ju 88, returned to base. Hit telegraph pole 1 mile south of Nunnington, Yorks after take-off 11.12.44Units 434/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/1666 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL286
s/n LL286
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 286
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 429;434;1659
Served with No. 1659 Heavy conversion Unit, 6 Group. Crashed on 28 May 1944, several fatalities. According to Halifax File, disappeared on cross-country exercise and believed crashed at sea 27.5.44Unit 429/1659 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-May-28 KIFA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 William Blair 2025-01-24 1944-May-28 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Jonathan Riley Bradley 2024-11-16 1944-May-28 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Paul Gagnebin 2025-01-24 1944-May-28 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Gordon Howard Nelson 2025-01-24 1944-May-28 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Thomas Fairfax Scott 2025-01-24 1944-May-28 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Frank Charles Stevens 2025-01-24 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL287
s/n LL287
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 287
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;138
Missing on operations, 31.3.44Unit 138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL288
s/n LL288
P
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 288
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434;1659
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "WL*P". Groundlooped on takeoff from Topcliffe and undercarriage ripped off, 21.5.44Units 434/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL289
s/n LL289
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 289
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Missing on operations 2.6.44Units 1654 Heavy Conversion Unit/1658 HCU/138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL290
s/n LL290
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 290
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 12.7.45Units 138/1667 Heavy Conversion Unit/1 Ferry Unit/Mediterranean Allied Aircraft Forces
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL291
s/n LL291
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 291
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge 15.1.45Units 298/1665 heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL292
s/n LL292
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 292
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 20.7.45Units 644/1674 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL293
s/n LL293
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 293
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;298
Failed to return, Special Operations Executive, "Rummy 6" to Emmen area of the Netherlands 15.10.44Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL294
s/n LL294
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 294
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 19.2.45Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL295
s/n LL295
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 295
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 13.3.45Units 517/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL296
s/n LL296
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 296
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;518
Collided with Halifax LL186 in flight, crashed and burned 16.8.44Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL297
s/n LL297
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 297
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge 21.6.45Units 517/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL298
s/n LL298
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 298
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 18.5.45Unit 517/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL299
s/n LL299
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 299
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.6.45Units 517/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL300
s/n LL300
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 300
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Written off after discovery of heavy damage after a series of heavy landings, Tempsford, 29.5.45Unit 161
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL301
s/n LL301
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 301
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 8.3.45Units 644/1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL302
s/n LL302
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 302
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL303
s/n LL303
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 303
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 22.3.45Units 298/1665 Heavy Conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL304
s/n LL304
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 304
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 298/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL305
s/n LL305
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 305
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Landed at Tilstock with one undercarriage retracted, 27.2.45Units 644/297/1665 Heavy Conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL306
s/n LL306
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 306
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Missing on operations 8.6.44Units 138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL307
s/n LL307
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 307
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Missing on operations, 3.6.44Unit 138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL308
s/n LL308
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 308
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Missing on Operations, 9.8.44Unit 138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL309
s/n LL309
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 309
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 31.5.45Units 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL310
s/n LL310
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 310
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crash landed and hit tree during overshoot, 2 miles west of Tarrant Rushton 14.10.44Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL311
s/n LL311
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 311
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Air-bottle exploded in aircraft at dispersal, damaged beyond repair,16.11.44Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL312
s/n LL312
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 312
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL325
s/n LL325
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 325
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 4.3.45Unit 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL326
s/n LL326
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 326
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL327
s/n LL327
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 327
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 6.6.45Units 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL328
s/n LL328
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 328
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 51/644/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL329
s/n LL329
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 329
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 4.3.45Units 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL330
s/n LL330
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 330
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 31.5.45Units 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL331
s/n LL331
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 331
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 6.6.45Units 51/644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL332
s/n LL332
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 332
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Swung off perimeter track at Earl's Colne, hit tractor and undercarriage collapsed 14.11.44Units 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL333
s/n LL333
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 333
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Flew into high ground 22 km south of Besancon, france, during supply drop, 22.9.44Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL334
s/n LL334
Q
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 334
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;298
Failed to Return, special Operation Executive, "Diplomat 9" to Haute Marne, 6.8.44Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL335
s/n LL335
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 335
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 298/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL336
s/n LL336
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 336
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL337
s/n LL337
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 337
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, unknown dateUnit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL338
s/n LL338
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 338
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL339
s/n LL339
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 339
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Port outboard engine oversped in flight and landed safely at Newton but aircraft damaged beyond repair, 9.7.43Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL340
s/n LL340
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 340
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 22.3.45Unit 644/1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL341
s/n LL341
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 341
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 13.6.45Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL342
s/n LL342
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 342
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL343
s/n LL343
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 343
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;298
Failed to Return, special Operations Executive, "Osric 122" to Diest area, 30.8.44Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL344
s/n LL344
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 344
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 644/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL345
s/n LL345
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 345
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 31.5.45Units 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL346
s/n LL346
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 346
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;644
Flew into wood, 1 miles west of Tarrant Rushton, after takeoff with glider 27.5.44Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL347
s/n LL347
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 347
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL348
s/n LL348
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 348
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Shot down by German coastal defences off coast of Normandy on operation "Tonga" 6.6.44Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL349
s/n LL349
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 349
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL350
s/n LL350
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 350
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 4.3.45Units 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL351
s/n LL351
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 351
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Stalled after takeoff for ops due to bomb doors being opened, crashed in Essex, 3.2.45Units 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL352
s/n LL352
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 352
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 22.3.45Units 644/1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL353
s/n LL353
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 353
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 8.3.45Units 298/296/1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL354
s/n LL354
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 354
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 14.8.45Units 138/2 Overseas Aircraft Delivery unit/148
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL355
s/n LL355
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 355
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Control lost after starboard inner engine fire, pilot attempted forced landing but crashed 5 miles southwest of Diss, Norfolk, 3-4.1.45Units 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL356
s/n LL356
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 356
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;138
Missing on Operations, 28.4.44Unit 138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL357
s/n LL357
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 357
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 644/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL358
s/n LL358
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 358
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;161
Missing on Special Operation Executive operations, 9.8.44Unit 161
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL359
s/n LL359
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 359
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, !.4.45units 138/301
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL360
s/n LL360
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 360
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 15.11.46Units 1662 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL361
s/n LL361
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 361
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL362
s/n LL362
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 362
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crashed in forced landing at Swaniland, hull, Yorks, after aileron failure, 2.9.44Unit 1662 Heavy conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL363
s/n LL363
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 363
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 1662 Heavy conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL364
s/n LL364
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 364
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;138
Missing on operations, 18.7.44Units 161/138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL365
s/n LL365
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 365
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1659
Struck off charge, 8.11.46unit 1659 Heavy Conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL366
s/n LL366
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 366
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on take-off from Blyton and undercarriage collapsedUnit 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL367
s/n LL367
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 367
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 17.2.45Unit 161/ 1 Ferry unit/ 2 Overseas aircraft Delivery unit/ Mediterranean Allied air forces
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL380
s/n LL380
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 380
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Hit by flak and abandonned 15 miles southwest of Susak, Yugolslavia, 4.1.45Units 138/1 Ferry unit/ 2 Overseas Aircraft Delivery unit/ 148
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL381
s/n LL381
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 381
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.4.45Units 161/138/2 Overseas Aircradft Delivery Unit/ Mediterranean Allied Air forces
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL382
s/n LL382
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 382
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.1.45Units 298/296/1665 Heavy conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL383
s/n LL383
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 383
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 1662 Heavy conversion Unit/1667 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL384
s/n LL384
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 384
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crashed and burnt after hitting a church spire, south of Lille, France, while on ops, 7.2.45Units 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL385
s/n LL385
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 385
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.4.45Units 138/161/ 1 Ferry unit/2 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit/ 148
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL386
s/n LL386
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 386
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 15.11.46Units 1656 Heavy Conversion unit/ 1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL387
s/n LL387
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 387
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;138
Missing on Operations 18.7.44Units 161/138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL388
s/n LL388
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 388
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Missing on Special Operations Executive Ops, 29.8.44Units 161/138/161
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL389
s/n LL389
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 389
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Bounced on landing at Sandtoft, tire burst and undercarriage collapsed, 12.11.44Unit 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL390
s/n LL390
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 390
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on take-off from Tempsford and hit a pillbox 7.6.44Unit 138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL391
s/n LL391
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 391
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Skidded and groundlooped on take-off from Sandtoft after starboard outer engine caught fire, undercarrigae collapsed, 8.5.44Unit 1667 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL392
s/n LL392
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 392
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Fate not KnownUnits 161/138/ 1 Ferrry Unit/Mediterranean Allied air forces/ Tg Del France
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL393
s/n LL393
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 393
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 30.3.45Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL394
s/n LL394
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 394
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 20.7.45Units 517/1674 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL395
s/n LL395
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 395
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 77/346/347/1652 Heavy Conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL396
s/n LL396
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 396
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45units 77/346/347/1663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL397
s/n LL397
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 397
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, !.11.45Units 77/346/347/1663 heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL398
s/n LL398
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 398
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 77/346/347/1652 Heavy conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL399
s/n LL399
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 399
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL400
s/n LL400
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 400
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;644
Failed to Return, special operations Executive operations, 31.8.44Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL401
s/n LL401
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 401
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Failed to Return, special Operations Executive ops, 25.8.44Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL402
s/n LL402
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 402
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Hit by flak near Dordrecht while on Spedcial Operations Executive ops, 2.10.44Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL403
s/n LL403
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 403
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Special operations Executive, "Dodex III" to Amersfoort area of Netherlands, 6.10.44Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL404
s/n LL404
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 404
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL405
s/n LL405
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 405
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL406
s/n LL406
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 406
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;297
Starboard outer engine caught fire at 1500' cartwheeled into the ground 1/2 mile southwest of Shephard's Grove airfield and burnt, 29.11.44Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL407
s/n LL407
K
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 407
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Hit by flak and abandoned over Normandy, 6.6.44 Unit 298. Piloted by Pilot Officer Charles Edward Anderson of Winnipeg who evaded capture and retuned to Britain.
Anderson was KIA, 1944-08-05 in Halifax LL334
last update: 2025-February-05Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL408
s/n LL408
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 408
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 22.3.45Unit 298/1665 Heavy Conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL409
s/n LL409
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 409
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;138
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 138/298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL410
s/n LL410
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 410
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 31.5.45Units 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL411
s/n LL411
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 411
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 31.5.45Units 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL412
s/n LL412
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 412
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 5.9.45Units 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL413
s/n LL413
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 413
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Failed to Return from ASR search over North Sea, presumed flew into sea in cloud, 3.3.45Unit 297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL414
s/n LL414
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 414
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;1667
Crashed into forest at Glenisla out of control after engine failure, 1.6.44Units 1667 Heavy conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-01 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer William Campbell 2024-08-05 1944-June-01 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Robert Trevor Dean 2024-10-09 1944-June-01 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Thomas Goldie 2024-08-05 1944-June-01 KIFA RCAF Warrant Officer 1 James Stuart MacDonald 2024-08-05 1944-June-01 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Vernon Thomas Sherven 2024-08-05 1944-June-01 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Leslie Llewellyn Williams 2024-08-05 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL415
s/n LL415
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 415
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 28.11.46units 1667 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL416
s/n LL416
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 416
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;138
Missing on Operations, 8.6.44Unit 138
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Hamilton 2024-01-29 1944-June-08 Evader RCAF Sergeant A McC Hinds 2024-01-30 1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Francis Harold Lyne 2023-11-16 1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Sergeant William Howard Moffat 2021-08-16 1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Arthur Roy Smith 2023-11-17 1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Ralph William Westergard 2023-11-17 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL417
s/n LL417
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 417
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck of Charge, 1.11.46Unit 1667 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL418
s/n LL418
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 418
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 20.7.45Units 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit/ 1674 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL419
s/n LL419
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 419
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Missing on Operations, 1.6.44Unit 138
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-01 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Herbert Barker 2024-11-07 1944-June-01 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Herbert John Patrick Brennan 2024-11-17 1944-June-01 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Thomas Carnegie 2024-01-06 1944-June-01 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Joseph Patrick Gallagher 2024-12-17 1944-June-01 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Wilbur Joseph Jeffrey 2024-12-17 1944-June-01 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Zywina 2024-12-17 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL420
s/n LL420
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 420
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 8.11.46Units 1656 Heavy Conversion Unit/ 1662 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL421
s/n LL421
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 421
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 1656 Heavy conversion Unit/1662 HCU/ 1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL422
s/n LL422
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 422
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 1656 Heavy Conversion Unit/1662HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL423
s/n LL423
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 423
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 1656 Heavy conversion Unit/1667 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL437
s/n LL437
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 437
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 1656 Heavy Conversion Unit/1662HCU/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL438
s/n LL438
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 438
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 1667 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL439
s/n LL439
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 439
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 18.9.45last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL440
s/n LL440
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 440
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 4.3.45Units 644/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL441
s/n LL441
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 441
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 4.3.45Units 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL442
s/n LL442
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 442
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 18.9.45last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL443
s/n LL443
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 443
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 18.9.45last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL444
s/n LL444
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 444
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 18.9.45last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL445
s/n LL445
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 445
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crash landed in field near Ipswich following engine failure on entering snowstorm at 1,000' 28.1.45Units 644/10/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL446
s/n LL446
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 446
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL447
s/n LL447
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 447
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 1.11.45last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL448
s/n LL448
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 448
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL449
s/n LL449
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 449
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 27.9.45Unit Leeming
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL450
s/n LL450
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 450
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL451
s/n LL451
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 451
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 22.6.45Unit 520
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL452
s/n LL452
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 452
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL453
s/n LL453
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 453
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 30.3.45Units 161/ 1 Ferry Unit/ 2 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit/ 148
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL454
s/n LL454
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 454
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit/ 77/1667 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL455
s/n LL455
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 455
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 1662 Heavy conversion Unit/ 1667 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL456
s/n LL456
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 456
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Bounced on landing at Hawarden, ferrying flight, 31.1.45Units 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit/ 1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL457
s/n LL457
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 457
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL458
s/n LL458
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 458
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit/ 1667 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL459
s/n LL459
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 459
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Dived into ground and burned south of Howden Dyke Island, Yorks, 8.6.44Unit 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL460
s/n LL460
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 460
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL461
s/n LL461
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 461
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL462
s/n LL462
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 462
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 20.7.45Units 346/347/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit/1652 HCU/1674 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL463
s/n LL463
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 463
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1659
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 346/347/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/1652 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL464
s/n LL464
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 464
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1659;1666
Struck off charge, 20.7.45Units 1666 Heavy Conversion Unit/ 1659 HCU/1674 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL465
s/n LL465
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 465
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Hit by Wellington and burnt, Rosignano, 26.2.45Units 138/161/1 Ferry Unit/2 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit/ 1586 Flight/ Tg. Del, France
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL466
s/n LL466
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 466
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;138
Missing on operations, 8.6.44Unit 138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL467
s/n LL467
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 467
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Unknown fate.Units 138/161/1 Ferry Unit/ 2 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit/ 1586 Flight/ Tg. Del, France
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL468
s/n LL468
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 468
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.4.45Units 138/ 1 Ferry Unit/ 2 Overseas aircraft Delivery unit/ 148
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL469
s/n LL469
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 469
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, unknown date.Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL481
s/n LL481
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 481
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Undercarriage hit ground on take-off from Exeter, belly-landed, 18.2.45Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL482
s/n LL482
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 482
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 9.4.45 and to 5218MUnit 517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL483
s/n LL483
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 483
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Fate not known,Units 138/161/1 Ferry Unit/ 2 Oversea Aircraft Delivery Unit/ Mediterranean Allied Air forces
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL484
s/n LL484
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 484
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Engine cut, crashed near San Vito, 26.12.44Unit138/ 2 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit/ 148
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL485
s/n LL485
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 485
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crashed at Castle-Cenlas Farm, Mathry, Pembs, in bad weather, ex ops, 27.8.44Unit517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL486
s/n LL486
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 486
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 13.2.45units 517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL487
s/n LL487
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 487
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL488
s/n LL488
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 488
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Overshot Holme-On-Spalding Moor, hit tree and crash landed, 18.6.44Unit 1663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL489
s/n LL489
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 489
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 1.11.45Unit 1663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL490
s/n LL490
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 490
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 25.11.461652 Heavy conversion Unit/1663 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL491
s/n LL491
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 491
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 1652 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL492
s/n LL492
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 492
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 1.11.45Unit 1652 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL493
s/n LL493
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 493
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 1658 Heavy Conversion Unit/1652 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL494
s/n LL494
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 494
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Undercarriage collapsed at landing at Marston moor, 21.11.44Units 1658 heavy Conversion Unit/1652 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL495
s/n LL495
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 495
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 1663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL496
s/n LL496
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 496
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45unit 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit/ 1662 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL497
s/n LL497
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 497
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: ;1667
Missing on cross-sountry, 2.7.44Unit 1667 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL498
s/n LL498
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 498
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Belly landed at Blyton after damage by fire over enemy territory, 9.12.44Unit 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL499
s/n LL499
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 499
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 30.7.46Unit 1667
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL500
s/n LL500
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 500
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 1.11.45Units 1662 Heavy conversion Unit/ 1667 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL501
s/n LL501
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 501
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1659;1667
Crashed into riverbank at mouth of river Trent, Lincs, while descending, 10.10.44Unit 1659 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL502
s/n LL502
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 502
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 8.6.45Units 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit/ 1662 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL503
s/n LL503
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 503
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 6.6.45Units 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit/1662 HCU/ 1667 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL504
s/n LL504
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 504
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1659
Struck off charge, 8.11.46Unit 347/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit 1652 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL505
s/n LL505
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 505
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1659;1659
Flew into ground at Grwat Carrs, 3 miles northwest of Coniston, Lancashire, 22.10.44Unit 1659 Heavy Conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-October-22 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Francis Aubrey Bell 2024-11-11 1944-October-22 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer John Armstrong Johnston 2025-01-09 1944-October-22 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Harvey Ellsworth Pyche 2025-01-09 1944-October-22 KIFA RCAF Sergeant George Riddoch 2025-01-09 1944-October-22 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Donald Fraser Titt 2025-01-09 1944-October-22 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Newton Whitley 2025-01-09 1944-October-22 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Calvin George Whittingstall 2025-01-09 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL506
s/n LL506
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 506
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 22.5.45Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL507
s/n LL507
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 507
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45units 347/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit/1652 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL508
s/n LL508
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 508
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck by Halifax LL238 while at dispersal at Marston Moor, 20.11.44Units 1658 Heavy Conversion Unit/1652 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL509
s/n LL509
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 509
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 1663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL510
s/n LL510
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 510
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Ditched 5 miles from Tiree after fire at 600', 21.11.44Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL511
s/n LL511
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 511
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 31.5.45Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL512
s/n LL512
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 512
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge 10.5.45Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL513
s/n LL513
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 513
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on takeoff from Tiree and undercarriage collapsed, 7.10.44Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL514
s/n LL514
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 514
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck of Charge, 6.5.45Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL515
s/n LL515
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 515
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck of charge, 29.5.45Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL516
s/n LL516
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 516
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 18.5.45Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL517
s/n LL517
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 517
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 7.6.45Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL518
s/n LL518
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 518
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.6.45Unit 520
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL519
s/n LL519
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 519
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1666
Struck Off charge, 1.11.45Unit 1666 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL520
s/n LL520
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 520
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1666
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 1666 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL521
s/n LL521
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 521
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.4.45Units 1 Ferry Unit/2 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit/ 148
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL534
s/n LL534
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 534
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.4.45Unit 161/1 Ferry Unit/2Overseas Aircraft Delivery unit/301
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL535
s/n LL535
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 535
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 3.9.45Unit 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL536
s/n LL536
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 536
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1666
Undercarriage selected up in error during cockpit check at dispersal, wombleton, 29.11.44Unit 1666 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL537
s/n LL537
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 537
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 1667 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL538
s/n LL538
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 538
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1664
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 1664 Heavy conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL539
s/n LL539
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 539
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1664
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Unit 1664 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL540
s/n LL540
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 540
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1664
Struck off charge, 23.8.45Unit 1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL541
s/n LL541
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 541
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1659;1664
Broke up in dive over Hereford and burnt, 12.12.44Unit 1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/ 1664 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-December-12 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Ernest Henry Brautigam 2024-11-17 1944-December-12 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Gordon Grant Goehring 2025-03-01 1944-December-12 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant David Levine 2025-03-01 1944-December-12 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Gerald Lawrence Lister 2025-03-01 1944-December-12 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Allan Fairbairn McMurtry 2025-03-01 1944-December-12 KIFA RCAF Sergeant John Sven Overland 2025-03-01 1944-December-12 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant James Harold Preece 2025-03-01 1944-December-12 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Frank Willmek 2025-03-01 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.V serial LL542
s/n LL542
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 542
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1659;1664
Struck off charge, 1.11.45Units 1659 Heavy conversion Unit/ 1664 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL543
s/n LL543
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 543
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 13.12.46Units 640/296/1385 HTSCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL544
s/n LL544
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 544
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Crashed during steep turn, 1 mile north of Skipwith, Yorks, after overshoot, and burned, 5.3.45Units 77/1658 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL545
s/n LL545
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 545
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 4.10.45Units 77/ 1663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL546
s/n LL546
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 546
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 25.1.47units 78/1658 Heavy conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL547
s/n LL547
N
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 547
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 425;429;432
With No. 425 (B) Squadron, RCAF, at Tholthorpe, Yorkshire. Coded "KW*M" and "KW*J". Also with No. 429 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "AL*K". Also with No. 432 (B) Squadron, RCAF at East Moor, Yorkshire, coded "QO*N" and "QO*X". Went to 5824M, 22.2.46Units 432/429/425/644/Earl's Colne/ Operational and Refresher Trainer Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL548
s/n LL548
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 548
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 13.7.45Units 578/51
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL549
s/n LL549
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 549
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Montergueil, 25.6.44Units 67/77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL550
s/n LL550
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 550
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420
Failed to reach speed on take-off from Linton-On-Ouse, pilot retracted undercarriage to stop, 16.6.44Unit 420
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL551
s/n LL551
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 551
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 4.10.45Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL552
s/n LL552
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 552
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Stuttgart, 25.7.44Units 77/102
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL553
s/n LL553
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 553
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Chaerge, 15.8.45Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL554
s/n LL554
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 554
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 4.10.45unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL555
s/n LL555
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 555
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Shot up on daylight raid on Munster, 12.9.44, crash landed at woodbridge.Units 77/102
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL556
s/n LL556
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 556
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Groundlooped on take-off from elvington and undercarriage collapsed, 18.4.45Unit 77/102/347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL557
s/n LL557
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 557
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Hannover, 6.1.45unit 77/102/346/347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL558
s/n LL558
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 558
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Hemmingstedt, 8.3.45unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL559
s/n LL559
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 559
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Groundlooped on landing at Bovingdon, hit parked Halifax NA173 and caught fire. 6.3.45Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL573
s/n LL573
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 573
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Port, outboard engine caught fire, landed safely at Carnaby but damaged beyond repair, 18.2.45Unit 346/347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL574
s/n LL574
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 574
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;420;1659;1664;1666
Struck off charge, 17.5.45Units 420/1666 heavy conversion Unit/1664 HCU/ 1659 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL575
s/n LL575
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 575
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;415;420;1664;1666
Struck off charge, 18.5.45units 420/1666 Heavy Conversion Unit/1664 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL576
s/n LL576
N
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 576
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;425;1664
Served with No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "6U*N". Starboard outer engine failed during take-off for cross country; crashed into high ground and burned, 3 miles northwest of Pately Bridge, Yorks, 28.1.45Units 425/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL577
s/n LL577
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 577
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Bochum, 4.11.44Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL578
s/n LL578
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 578
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;76
Failed to Return, Russelheim, crashed 2 kilometres northeast of Hamm, Germany, 13.8.44Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL579
s/n LL579
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 579
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;76
Failed to Return, Mainz, 28.2.45Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL580
s/n LL580
U
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 580
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420;1659;1664
Served with No. 420 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "PT*U". Struck off charge, 13.12.45Unit 420/1659 heavy Conversion Unit/ 1664 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL581
s/n LL581
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 581
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 31.12.46Units 102/346/347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL582
s/n LL582
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 582
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 425;1659
Struck off charge, 31 .12.46units 102/346/347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL583
s/n LL583
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 583
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 18.1.47Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL584
s/n LL584
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 584
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Gelsenkirchen, 12.9.44unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL585
s/n LL585
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 585
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 15.11.46Unit 578/1652 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL586
s/n LL586
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 586
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 4.10.45Units 346/1663 Heavy conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL587
s/n LL587
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 587
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Port inboard engine caught fire on return from ops, some crew abandoned before aircraft crashed at Cranford, Northants, 23.1.45Unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL588
s/n LL588
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 588
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Gelsenkirchen, 6.10.44Units 10/78
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL589
s/n LL589
N
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 589
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420;420;1664;1666
Served with No. 420 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "PT*N". Struck off Charge, 13.12.46Units 420/ 1666 Heavy conversion Unit/ 1664 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL590
s/n LL590
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 590
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to return, Saarbrucken, 13.1.45Units 102/347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL591
s/n LL591
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 591
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 425;1659
Struck off charge, 14.3.47Units 425/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL592
s/n LL592
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 592
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420;429;1659
Struck off charge, 14.3.47Unit 420/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL593
s/n LL593
N
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 593
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;415
Served with No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "6U*N". Struck off Charge, 30.7.46Units 415/1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL594
s/n LL594
X
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 594
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 425;425
Served with No. 425 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "KW*X", and "KW*U" when lost. Shot down by flak during attack on a V-1 storage site at St. Leu DEsserent on 5 August 1944. 6 killed, 1 POW, 1 evaded.Unit 425
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-05 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant William Brown Gracie 2023-10-26 1944-August-05 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Thomas Edwin Lee 2024-01-25 1944-August-05 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer G L Milliard 2023-07-23 1944-August-05 Evader RCAF Squadron Leader G B Philbin 2021-05-22 1944-August-05 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Raymond Alexander Reed 2023-10-26 Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL595
s/n LL595
K
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 595
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 425;1659;1664
Served with No. 425 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "KW*K". Struck off Charge, 14.3.47Units 425/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit/1659hCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL596
s/n LL596
U
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 596
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 425;1664
With No. 425 (B) Squadron, RCAF, at Tholthorpe, Yorkshire. Coded "KW*U". Struck Off Charge, 13.12.46Units 425/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL597
s/n LL597
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 597
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Hannover, 5.1.45Units 341/102
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL598
s/n LL598
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 598
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Crashed and burnt, 2 miles west of Shipdham, Norfolk, after engine fire, 14.1.45Units 76/462
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL599
s/n LL599
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 599
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Collided with Lancaster, LM691 returning from Essen, 23.10.44Units 76/462
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL600
s/n LL600
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 600
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Overshot on landing at Sudbury, out of fuel and undercarriage torn off, 23.9.44Units 578/462
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL601
s/n LL601
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 601
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 13.7.45Units 578/462/1658 Heavy conversion Unit/1663HCU/1652HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL602
s/n LL602
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 602
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 10.9.46Units 347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL603
s/n LL603
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 603
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 4.10.45Units 347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL604
s/n LL604
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 604
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Bochum, 9.10.44Units 158/462
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL605
s/n LL605
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 605
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420;1659;1664
Struck off Charge, 16.7.45units 420/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit/1659HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL606
s/n LL606
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 606
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 12.6.45Units 76/10
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL607
s/n LL607
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 607
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 30.5.45Units 76/78
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL608
s/n LL608
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 608
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 31.1.47Units 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL609
s/n LL609
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 609
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck of Charge, 28.8.46Unit 462
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL610
s/n LL610
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 610
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Dusseldorf, 2.11.44Unit 462
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL611
s/n LL611
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 611
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Landed too far down the runway at Riccall, overshot and undercarriage collapsed, 22.2.45Units 462/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL612
s/n LL612
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 612
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
To 4916M following overshoot on landing at Snaith after ops, 25.10.44 delivered to AFDCUnit 51
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL613
s/n LL613
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 613
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 4.10.45Unit 78
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL614
s/n LL614
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 614
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 4.10.45Unit 78
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.III serial LL615
s/n LL615
Rootes Securities Ltd
LL 615
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;158
Struck Off Charge, 11.2.48Units 466/158/ Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment
last update: 2025-February-05