Halifax (Total: 6,178, Canadian: 475, Group 475)
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
Halifax Heavy Bomber WWII
Wikipedia Halifax Bomber
National Air Force Museum of CanadaHalifax A.Mk.VII serial NA411
s/n NA411
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 411
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Crash landed after takeoff from Great Dunmow with ailerons locked, 2.9.45unit 190/620
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA102
s/n NA102
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 102
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 21.2.47Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA103
s/n NA103
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 103
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;298
Failed to Return, Special Operations Executive, 26.2.45unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-February-25 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Stanley Edick 2021-09-20
1945-February-25 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Chester Allen Holmlund 2021-08-23 1945-February-25 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Eric Alexander Innes 2022-01-26 1945-February-25 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Alex Kotyk 2021-08-23 1945-February-25 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Hector Lochhead 2021-08-23 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA104
s/n NA104
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 104
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 26.9.47units 297/21 Heavy Glider conversion Unit/Elsham Wolds/ 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA105
s/n NA105
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 105
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 28.12.46unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA106
s/n NA106
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 106
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 3.10.43Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA107
s/n NA107
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 107
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Abandonned near North Creakeafter being shot up by intruder, 4.3.45Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA108
s/n NA108
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 108
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sort of fuel, and icing, abandonned east of Paris while on ops, 26.11.44Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA109
s/n NA109
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 109
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.9.46unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA110
s/n NA110
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 110
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 8.8.46Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA111
s/n NA111
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 111
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;171
Failed to Return, Mandrelscreen, 8.3.45Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA112
s/n NA112
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 112
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 8.8.47unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA113
s/n NA113
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 113
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 24.3.45unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA114
s/n NA114
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 114
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Hannover, 5.1.45unit 76/10
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA115
s/n NA115
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 115
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Hit at dispersal at Tarrant rushton by Hamilcar NX874 which was attempting a forced landing, 17.4.45Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA116
s/n NA116
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 116
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 30.1.47unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA117
s/n NA117
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 117
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-12
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA118
s/n NA118
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 118
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-12
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA119
s/n NA119
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 119
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 20.3.47unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA120
s/n NA120
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 120
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Landed too fast at Tarrant rushton, pilot raised undercarriage to avoid overshoot, 5.2.45Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA121
s/n NA121
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 121
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, bochum, 4.11.44Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA122
s/n NA122
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 122
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 20.8.46Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA123
s/n NA123
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 123
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 28.8.45Unit 578/51
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA124
s/n NA124
I
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 124
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415
With No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, c.1944/45, coded "6U*I".converted to 5687M on 3.10.45Unit 415/1665 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA125
s/n NA125
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 125
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 15.8.47units 644/297/1 ferry Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA126
s/n NA126
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 126
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 25.9.46Unit 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA127
s/n NA127
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 127
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;644
Ditched in North Sea after Special Operation Executive operations "Ears 2" to norway, 3.3.45Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA128
s/n NA128
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 128
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 26.12.46unit 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA129
s/n NA129
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 129
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Mainplane strained in dive after icing, while on transport flight to Almaza, Egypt, 8.12.45Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA130
s/n NA130
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 130
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.3.47Unit 297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA131
s/n NA131
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 131
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Crashed in circuit during night training exercise, Tarrant Rushton, 26.3.45unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA132
s/n NA132
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 132
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 15.8.47unit 296/21 Heavy glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA133
s/n NA133
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 133
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 13.1.47unit 297/1385 HTSCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA134
s/n NA134
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 134
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 26.9.46Unit 297/kinloss
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA135
s/n NA135
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 135
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 27.2.47Unit 190
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA136
s/n NA136
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 136
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 24.9.46units 520/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA137
s/n NA137
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 137
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 15.11.46unit ATTDU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA138
s/n NA138
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 138
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 10.9.46Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA139
s/n NA139
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 139
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.3.47unit 190
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA140
s/n NA140
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 140
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.3.47unit 190
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA141
s/n NA141
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 141
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 14.3.47Unit 247
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA142
s/n NA142
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 142
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Overshot Stornoway and crashed into sea 30 yards from boundary of airfield, 8.9.45Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA143
s/n NA143
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 143
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 10.9.46unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA144
s/n NA144
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 144
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 27.2.47unit 644/198
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA145
s/n NA145
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 145
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 26.10.46Units 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA146
s/n NA146
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 146
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 10.9.46Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA147
s/n NA147
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 147
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.3.47Unit 462
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA148
s/n NA148
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 148
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 20.9.45Unit 462
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA149
s/n NA149
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 149
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 23.11.46unit 10/76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA150
s/n NA150
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 150
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.10.46unit 51
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA162
s/n NA162
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 162
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 18.9.46Unit Empire Air Navigation School
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA163
s/n NA163
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 163
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Hit tree with wingtip on landing at Cheburgh after ops, 14.2.45, damaged beyond repairUnits 78/76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA164
s/n NA164
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 164
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Groundlooped on landing at Ho,me-On-spalding with both starboard engines feathered, and hit tar barrels ex ops, 21.2.45Unit 78
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA165
s/n NA165
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 165
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 17.1.47Unit 102/519
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA166
s/n NA166
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 166
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Shot down over Begum (Hagen) 16.3.45Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA167
s/n NA167
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 167
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, 3.2.45Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA168
s/n NA168
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 168
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Rolled off perimeter track at Thorney Island and undercarriage collapsed, 18.7.46Units Gosport/Air-Sea Warfare Development Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA169
s/n NA169
O
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 169
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420
With No. 420 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "PT*O". Struck off Charge, 24.5.45Unit 420
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA170
s/n NA170
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 170
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.3.47Unit 76/517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA171
s/n NA171
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 171
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to return, Koln, 30.12.44, crashed on targetUnit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA172
s/n NA172
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 172
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 17.10.45unit 76/78
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA173
s/n NA173
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 173
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Collied with Halifax LL559 on ground, Bovingdon, 6.3.45Units 102/578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA174
s/n NA174
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 174
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Bombs exploded during loading, aircraft disintegratedand burnt, Elvington, 28.12.44Unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA175
s/n NA175
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 175
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Abandonned near Goch target area after being attacked by Ju 88, 8.2.45Unit 102
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA176
s/n NA176
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 176
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 17.10.45unit 78
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA177
s/n NA177
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 177
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 5.6.47units 96/521/520/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA178
s/n NA178
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 178
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420;429
Struck off charge, 17.10.43unit 429/420
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA179
s/n NA179
B
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 179
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420;429
Served with No. 420 Squadron, RCAF, coded "PT*B". Struck by flak in starboard motor during bomb run over Duisberg on 30 November 1944. Completed run and returned to base on three engines where it banked and dived into ground and burnt, crashed one mile short of Tholthorpe runway 5.3.45Unit 429/420
last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Chemnitz Germany 1945-02-14 to 1945-02-14
420 (B) Sqn (RCAF) RAF Tholthorpe
Thunderclap
420 Snowy Owl Squadron (Pugnamus Finitum) RAF Tholthorpe. Halifax BIII aircraft returned early from an operation against targets in Chemnitz, Germany with a failed starboard outer engine. On approach, the bomber stalled, spun-in and crashed one mile North of the airfield, killing all but one crew member
Flying Officer WS Anderson (RCAF), Flying Officer SA Hay (RCAF), Flying Officer LI Jones (RCAF), Pilot Officer EAH Sills (RCAF), Flying Officer JC Sinden (RCAF) and Sergeant H Evans (RAFVR) were all killed in action
The sole survivor of this crash was the Mid-Upper Gunner, Flight Sergeant WH Giles (RCAF) who survived with serious injuries
1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Smith Anderson 2023-03-30
1945-February-14 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Harry Evans 2023-03-30 1945-February-14 Survived RCAF Flight Sergeant William Herbert Giles 2023-03-30 1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Stanley Arthur Hay 2023-03-30 1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Lloyd Ingram Jones 2023-03-30 1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Earl Albert Henry Sills 2023-03-30 1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Charles Sinden 2023-03-30 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA180
s/n NA180
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 180
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 425;429
Struck off Charge, 16.5.45Unit 429/425
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA181
s/n NA181
D
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 181
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415
With No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, c.1944/45, coded "6U*D" Struck off charge, 5.3.47units 429/158.
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA182
s/n NA182
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 182
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Converted to a Mark V1 4.45 and then written off, 2.11.45unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA183
s/n NA183
M
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 183
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420
Served with No. 420 Squadron, RCAF, coded "PT*M". Failed to Return, Magdeburg, 17.1.45last update: 2025-February-05
1945-January-16 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer George Aylwyn Haacke 2021-05-08 1945-January-16 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Dave O Mackey 2021-05-21 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Elvet Baxter McCutcheon DFC 2021-08-17 1945-January-16 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Douglas Warren Ritchie 2023-09-27 1945-January-16 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer John Gilbert Skidmore 2024-01-30 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Gordon Welk 2021-07-09 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA184
s/n NA184
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 184
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420
With No. 420 (B) Squadron, RCAF. Lost during raid on Chemnitz on 5/6 March 1945, airframe icing suspected. Crashed shortly after taking off from Tholthorpe, came down at Marrow Flat Farm, one mile north-east of RAF Dishforth. 4 crew killed, 3 injured.last update: 2025-February-05
1945-March-05 Survived RCAF Flight Sergeant Robert J Arnold 2024-11-03 1945-March-05 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Earl William Clark 2024-02-24 1945-March-05 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Jerome Aquinuis Epoch 2021-11-17 1945-March-05 Survived RCAF Pilot Officer B V Freed 2021-11-17 1945-March-05 KIA RAFVR Sergeant James Burton Kirby 2021-11-17 1945-March-05 Survived RCAF Warrant Officer I Harold Morris O'Connor 2021-11-17 1945-March-05 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Hugh Oakes 2021-11-18 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA185
s/n NA185
A
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 185
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;415
With No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, c.1944/45, coded "6U*A". Lost on a raid to Leipzig on 9 April 1945, may have been struck by friendly bombs over the target.last update: 2025-February-05
1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Melvin John Burns 2024-11-25 1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Ronald Sylvester Evans 2025-03-27 1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Douglas Leander Lorenz 2025-03-27 1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Lorne Mortimore Spry 2025-03-27 1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Russell Donald Teevin 2025-03-27 1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Lawrence Edward Veitch 2025-03-27 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA186
s/n NA186
U
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 186
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;451
Served with No. 415 Squadron, RCAF, coded "6U*U". Lost on operations, Hamburg, on 8 March 1945. (9.3.45 per Halifax File)last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Hamburg Germany 1945-03-08 to 1945-03-09
415 (B) Sqn (RCAF) RAF East Moor
The purpose of this raid was to hit the shipyards which were now assembling the new Type XXI U-boats, whose parts were prefabricated in many parts of inland Germany. Thanks to the Schnorkel breathing tube and a new type of battery-driven electric engine, the Type XXI could cruise under water for long periods and was capable of bursts of high speed. Its development in numbers would have posed great problems for Allied convoy defence if the war had lasted longer
The Hamburg area was found to be cloud-covered and the bombing was not expected to be accurate enough to cause much damage to the shipyards. Brunswig (pp. 362-3 and 456) mentions only a serious fire which almost destroyed the liner Robert Ley, built in Hamburg before the war as a cruise liner for the Strength Through Joy movement, and gives statistics of II8 people killed, 172 wounded, 54 fires (38 of them large ones)
312 aircraft - 241 Halifaxes, 12 Lancasters, 9 Mosquitoes - of 4, 6 and 8 Groups. 1 Halifax lost.
415 Swordfish Squadron (Ad Metam) RAF East Moor. Halifax BIII aircraft NA 186 6U-U was lost during an operation to bomb the U-Boat assembly yards at Hamburg, Germany, likely hit by flak on starboard wing and in the rear fuselage while over the target. The bomber was abandoned and crashed at Fischbek, Germany. The entire crew survived
Flying Officer AF McDairmid (RCAF), Flight Sergeant FE Adams (RCAF), Flight Sergeant AR Hibben (RCAF), Flight Sergeant WL Mracek (RCAF), Flight Sergeant GM Roberts (RCAF), Flight Sergeant N Tonello (RCAF) and Flight Sergeant WJR Gale (RAF) all survived and were taken as Prisoners of War
Very little POW information is known for these air crew to date
The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
In Enemy Hands - Canadian Prisoners of War 1939-45 page 169 1945-March-09 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Floyd Ellwood Adams 2023-10-26 1945-March-09 PoW RAF Flight Sergeant William J Raymond Gale 2023-04-18 1945-March-09 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Arthur Roy Hibben 2023-10-26 1945-March-09 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Allister Findlay McDiarmid 2023-10-26 1945-March-09 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant W L Mracek 2023-10-26 1945-March-09 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant George Michael Roberts 2023-10-26 1945-March-09 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Norman Tonello 2023-10-26 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA187
s/n NA187
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 187
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 8.2.47Unit 192
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA188
s/n NA188
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 188
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420
Failed to return. Magdeburg, 17.1.45Unit 420
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-January-16 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant S Cameron 2024-10-13 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Lewis Dennis 2025-05-19 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Addison Ireland 2025-05-19 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Leo Joseph Penny 2025-05-19 1945-January-16 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant F W Poole 2024-10-13 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Webb 2025-05-19 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA189
s/n NA189
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 189
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 14.6.45Unit 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit/1663HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA190
s/n NA190
U
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 190
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420
Served with No. 420 Squadron, RCAF, coded "PT*U". Lost during raid on Chemnitz on 5/6 March 1945, part of Operation Thunderclap, airframe icing suspected. Crashed and exploded at Hazelwood Castle about 1 hour after takeoff, came down at Hayton Woods, 3 miles south-west of Tadcaster, Yorkshire after control lost due to icing. One crew member bailed out, other 6 killed. The surviving crew member reported bailing out too low for parachute to fully open, but blast from aircraft crashing blew chute open just before he touched down.last update: 2025-February-05
1945-March-05 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Ralph Oscar Battler 2024-11-09
1945-March-05 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Robert Louis Dinnen 2024-10-21 1945-March-05 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Gaba 2025-01-01 1945-March-05 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Emmet Solomon Kaechele 2025-01-01 1945-March-05 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert George Smith 2025-01-01 1945-March-05 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Roald Frederick Sollie 2025-01-01 1945-March-05 Survived RCAF Flight Sergeant James Harry Waugh DFM 2025-01-01 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA191
s/n NA191
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 191
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 15.8.47Units 1652 Heavy Conversion Unit/1663HCU/1658HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA192
s/n NA192
Q
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 192
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420
"Halifax NA192 was one of 340 aircraft built by Rootes Securities Ltd. Speke under Contract No. ACFT/637 and Requisition No. HA3/E11/40 and delivered to No.420 (Snowy Owl) Squadron at Tholthorpe on Friday 24th November 1944 coded PT-Q for operational service. Having been assigned to Flight Lieutenant Watson RCAF, Halifax NA192 failed to return from the night's operation to Magdeburg, became the Squadron's 78th aircraft to become non effective and struck off charge, the 113th Squadron aircraft taking off from Tholthorpe, the 332nd aircraft from No.62 (Beaver) Base, the 81st aircraft assigned to attack Magdeburg, the 1,007th aircraft from No.6 (RCAF) Bomber Group and the 1,301st aircraft from the RCAF serving in Bomber Command to become non effective and struck off charge" Halifax NA192 was eventually struck off charge by the Squadron on Sunday 28th January""Lest we forget"
Source: Buzz Hope (Information from "and in the morning"' database and can be verified by MOD documentation and the CWGC Register)
last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Magdeburg Germany 1945-01-16 to 1945-01-16
(B) Sqn (RCAF) Tholthorpe
371 aircraft- 320 Halifaxes, 44 Lancasters, 7 Mosquitoes - of 4, 6 and 8 Groups. 17 Halifax.es lost, 4·6 per cent of the total force, 5·3 per cent of the Halifax force.
This was an area raid. Bomber Command claimed that it was successful, with 44 per cent of the built-up area being destroyed. No local report is available
The night of January 16, 1945, found Watson's crew with 16 operations in the bag as they wheeled Halifax III NA192 (PT-Q) onto the runway for what would turn out to be the Snowy Owl's worst night of the war. There were 18 aircraft headed for Magdeburg, Germany, and by the time the kites returned 420 was down four, with 15 crew dead.
NA192 made it to the target, but took heavy damage from anti-aircraft fire and went into a dive. Two of the crew, Flight Sergeant D Jacobi, and Flight Sergeant T Lynch, managed to escape and were captured, but the other five were killed. (Source Malcolm Kelly, Author SPROG)
1945-January-16 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Douglas James Jacobi 2023-01-25 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Quan Jil Louie 2024-04-22 1945-January-16 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Terrance Eugene Lynch 2023-09-06 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William John Desmond Partridge 2024-05-01 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Ernest William Watson 2024-05-03 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA193
s/n NA193
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 193
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Crashed into Moray Firth, south of Helmsdalewhile on cross country, cause obscure, 4.4.45Unit 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit/1652HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA194
s/n NA194
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 194
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 2.11.45unit 158/29 MU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA195
s/n NA195
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 195
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 5.3.47unit 10
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA196
s/n NA196
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 196
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 1.1.47Units 51/Empire Air Navigation School
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA197
s/n NA197
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 197
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to return, Goch 8.2.45Unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA198
s/n NA198
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 198
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
struck off Charge, 29.5.47Unit 78/76/10/empire Air Navigation School
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA199
s/n NA199
N
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 199
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415
Served with No. 415 Squadron, RCAF, coded "6U*N". Struck off Charge, 2.11.45Unit 466
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA200
s/n NA200
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 200
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 14.3.47Unit 51
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA201
s/n NA201
W
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 201
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;425;429
Served with No. 425 Squadron, RCAF, coded "KW*S". Served with No. 429 Squadron, RCAF, coded "AL*W", on 12 January 1945 during mining operation to Flensburg Fjord, Denmark. Dropped mines, attacked by Ju 88 probably piloted by Oberfeldwebel Hans Schadowski of 3./NJG 3. NA201 claimed one night fighter, but no Luftwaffe losses that night. Landed at Leeming, UK at 23:05. Struck off Charge,14.9.45Units 415/425/415
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA202
s/n NA202
A
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 202
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;415;426
Served with No. 415 Squadron, RCAF, coded "6U*N". Also with No. 426 Squadron, RCAF, from Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire, coded "OW*A". Struck off Charge, 23.7.46Units 415/426/415
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA203
s/n NA203
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 203
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 425
Struck off Charge, 6.9.45Unit 425
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA204
s/n NA204
J
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 204
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 408;415;425;426
Used by No. 426 Squadron, RCAF, from Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire, coded "OW*N". With No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "6U*J", when lost during Operation Thunderclap on 5/6 March 1945. All crew bailed out, became POW. Failed to Return, ChemnitzUnits 425/426/415
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-March-05 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer John Russell Gendron 2024-12-27 1945-March-06 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Roland Clyde Barteaux 2024-12-27 1945-March-06 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant William Bruce Gill 2024-12-27 1945-March-06 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Robert Douglas Loveridge 2024-12-27 1945-March-06 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant William Richard Mitchell DFC 2024-12-27 1945-March-06 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer William Donald Mosey 2024-12-27 1945-March-06 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Frank Thomas Mudry 2024-12-27 1945-March-06 PoW RAFVR Flight Sergeant Arthur Eltringham Ridley 2024-12-27 Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA205
s/n NA205
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 205
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 26.12.46Unit 76/192
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA218
s/n NA218
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 218
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 18.2.47Unit 76/521
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA219
s/n NA219
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 219
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 20.9.45Unit 76/78/199
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA220
s/n NA220
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 220
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 14.3.47Unit 76/78
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA221
s/n NA221
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 221
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 14.3.47Unit 640/158
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA222
s/n NA222
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 222
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold For scrap 14.3.47unit 640
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA223
s/n NA223
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 223
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.46Units 520/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA224
s/n NA224
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 224
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.12.45Uniot 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA225
s/n NA225
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 225
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 5.6.47Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA226
s/n NA226
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 226
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 24.1.47Unit 58
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA227
s/n NA227
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 227
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 5.6.47Units 520/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA228
s/n NA228
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 228
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 21.8.45Unit 10
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA229
s/n NA229
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 229
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 17.1.47unit 519
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA230
s/n NA230
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 230
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 5.6.47Unit 518/520
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA231
s/n NA231
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 231
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.11.46Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA232
s/n NA232
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 232
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Tire burst on landing at elvington, groundlooped and undercarriage collapsed 11.5.45Units 96/Pocklington/347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA233
s/n NA233
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 233
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 2.11.45Units 77/158
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA234
s/n NA234
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 234
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 21.11.45Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA235
s/n NA235
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 235
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 19.10.46Unit 58
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA236
s/n NA236
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 236
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 23.11.46Unit 58
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA237
s/n NA237
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 237
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Magdeburg, 17.1.45Unit 10
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA238
s/n NA238
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 238
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.9.46last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA239
s/n NA239
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 239
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 17.8.46last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA240
s/n NA240
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 240
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to return, protective patrol, Leipzig, 11.4.45Unit 462
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA241
s/n NA241
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 241
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;192
Failed to Return from special duty sortie, Pforzheim, 24.2.45Unit 192
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA242
s/n NA242
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 242
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 18.10.45Unit 192
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA243
s/n NA243
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 243
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 9.1.47Empire Air Navigation School
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA244
s/n NA244
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 244
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 23.4.45Unit 58
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA245
s/n NA245
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 245
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 14.10.46Unit 58
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA246
s/n NA246
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 246
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 15.8.47Unit Units 521/217/517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA247
s/n NA247
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 247
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 24.1.47Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA248
s/n NA248
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 248
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Missing, last known position, 46'30N, 10'28W, 2.10.45Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA249
s/n NA249
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 249
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 5.6.47Units 518/520/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA250
s/n NA250
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 250
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 18.12.46Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA251
s/n NA251
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 251
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 19.12.46Unit ?
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA252
s/n NA252
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 252
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Chaerge, 17.8.46last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA253
s/n NA253
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 253
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 13.2.47Unit 111 OTU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA254
s/n NA254
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 254
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 24.1.47Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA255
s/n NA255
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 255
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 10.12.46Unit 96
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA256
s/n NA256
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 256
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 5.3.47Unit 517/521
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA257
s/n NA257
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 257
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 28.1.47units 171/Radio Warfare Establishment
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA258
s/n NA258
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 258
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
SOC 10.9.46last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA259
s/n NA259
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 259
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Crashed at base of Cromer cliffs, Norfolk, and burnt, 25.6.45Unit 199
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA260
s/n NA260
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 260
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to return, Goch, 8.2.45Unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA261
s/n NA261
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 261
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 19.10.46Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA262
s/n NA262
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 262
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 17.1.47Unit 502/1674 Heavy Conversion Unit/111 Operational Training Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA263
s/n NA263
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 263
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 19.10.46Unit 347/171
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA275
s/n NA275
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 275
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 29.11.46Unit 10/78/199
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA276
s/n NA276
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 276
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 30.1.47Units Empire Air Navigation School
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA277
s/n NA277
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 277
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Overshot on landing at Jurby and ran into field, 4.9.45Unit Empire Air Navigation school
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA278
s/n NA278
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 278
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 14.3.47Units 78/199/1 Bombing Development Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA279
s/n NA279
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 279
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 14.11.46Units Empire Air Navigation School
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA280
s/n NA280
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 280
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 20.7.45Unit BTU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA281
s/n NA281
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 281
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 24.2.47Un it 296/21 heavy glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA282
s/n NA282
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 282
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 31.7.47Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA283
s/n NA283
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 283
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 4.9.46Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA284
s/n NA284
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 284
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 25.10.45Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA285
s/n NA285
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 285
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 13.12.46Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA286
s/n NA286
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 286
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 26.9.45Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA287
s/n NA287
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 287
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Overshot Almaza airfield, 12.11.45Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA288
s/n NA288
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 288
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.3.47
unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA289
s/n NA289
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 289
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 31.7.47unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA290
s/n NA290
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 290
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 22.11.46Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA291
s/n NA291
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 291
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Dived into ground and burnt at Fortune's Farm, Garstow Herts, after dinghy had inflated in flightand wrapped itself around tail of aircraft during a Ferry test flight, 25.5.45Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA292
s/n NA292
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 292
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 26.9.46Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA293
s/n NA293
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 293
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 26.12.46Unit 297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA294
s/n NA294
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 294
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Converted to 5998M on 2.7.46Unit 297/Transport Command Development Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA295
s/n NA295
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 295
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for scrap 27.3.50Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA296
s/n NA296
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 296
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.3.47unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA297
s/n NA297
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 297
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 18.9.46Units 297/21 Heavy Glider conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA298
s/n NA298
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 298
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 20.8.46Unit 296/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA299
s/n NA299
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 299
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 30.1.47Unit 297/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA300
s/n NA300
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 300
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Engine failure on takeoff from Mauripur, groundlooped and undercarriage collapsed 3.12.45Unit 297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA301
s/n NA301
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 301
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 1.11.46Unit 297/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA302
s/n NA302
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 302
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 24.1.47last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA303
s/n NA303
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 303
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Overshot Earl's Colne and hit obstruction, 23.5.45Unit 297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA304
s/n NA304
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 304
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 19.10.46Unit 296/21 Heavy glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA305
s/n NA305
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 305
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 26.9.46Unit 297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA306
s/n NA306
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 306
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 28.12.46Units 296/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA307
s/n NA307
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 307
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Starboard inner engine failed on takeoff from Istres, France for air test- pilot raised undercarriage to avoid buildings 16.11.45Unit 297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA308
s/n NA308
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 308
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 29.11.46Unit 296/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A/Met.Mk.III serial NA309
s/n NA309
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 309
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 21.6.47Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA310
s/n NA310
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 310
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 22.11.46Units 298/166
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA311
s/n NA311
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 311
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;298
Shot down by flak near Wessel while on operation "Varsity" 24.3.45Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA312
s/n NA312
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 312
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Overshot on landing at marston Moor, 20.8.45Units 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit/Operational and Refresher Trainer Unit/1665HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA313
s/n NA313
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 313
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49units 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit/1332 Heavy Transport Conversion Unit/1331HTCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA314
s/n NA314
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 314
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Soold for Scrap, 5.1.49Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA315
s/n NA315
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 315
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 30.12.49Unit 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit/1332 Heavy Transport Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA316
s/n NA316
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 316
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 21.3.45Unit 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA317
s/n NA317
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 317
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;1665
Collided with Tiger Moth DE473, in mid-air and crashed at Radmore, Staffs, 9.3.45Unit 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA318
s/n NA318
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 318
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for scrap 30.12.49Uniy 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit/1332 Heavy Transport Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA319
s/n NA319
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 319
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.9.45Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA320
s/n NA320
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 320
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap, 15.1.49Units 298/1665 heavy Conversion Unit/1332Heavy Transport Conversion Unit/1331HTCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA336
s/n NA336
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 336
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 24.7.47units/ Operator and Refresher Training Unit/644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA337
s/n NA337
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 337
Hercules XVI
Known Units: RCAF Museum
Failed to Return, Special Operation Executive, Norway, 24.4.45Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-April-24 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Goronwy Amman Bassett 2024-12-30 1945-April-24 KIA RAFVR Flight Lieutenant Walter Reginald Mitchell 2024-12-30 1945-April-24 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Alec Naylor 2024-12-30 1945-April-24 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Gordon Russell Tuckett 2024-12-30 1945-April-24 KIA RAFVR Flight Lieutenant Alexander Turnbull DFC 2024-12-30 1945-April-24 PoW RAFVR Flight Sergeant Thomas Henry Weightman 2024-12-30 
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA338
s/n NA338
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 338
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.9.45unit Operator and Refresher Training Unit/644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA339
s/n NA339
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 339
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 24.7.47Units Operator and Refresher training Unit/644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA340
s/n NA340
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 340
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge 14.9.45Unit Operator and Refresher Training Unit/644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA341
s/n NA341
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 341
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Converted to 6207M on 19.11.46Units Operator and Refresher trtaining Unit/298/295/297/1332 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA342
s/n NA342
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 342
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA343
s/n NA343
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 343
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck Off Charge, 3.9.47unit 298/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA344
s/n NA344
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 344
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Special Operation Executive operations, 19.4.45Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA345
s/n NA345
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 345
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 28.11.46Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA346
s/n NA346
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 346
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 21.9.45Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA347
s/n NA347
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 347
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Special Operation Executive operations, "Mdeico 6" to Alphen area of Netherlands, 13.4.45Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA348
s/n NA348
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 348
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 24.7.47Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA349
s/n NA349
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 349
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 24.7.47Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA350
s/n NA350
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 350
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 28.11.46Unit 298/1385 HTSCU/ 1333Transport Support Training Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA351
s/n NA351
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 351
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 24.7.47Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA352
s/n NA352
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 352
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 28.11.46Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA353
s/n NA353
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 353
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.9.45Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA354
s/n NA354
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 354
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 28.11.46Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA355
s/n NA355
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 355
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 31.12.46Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA356
s/n NA356
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 356
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 28.11.46Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA357
s/n NA357
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 357
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck by Halifax PN264 which groundlooped on approach to Raipur, 9.8.45Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA358
s/n NA358
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 358
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Damaged beyond Repair by sabotage, Qastina 25.2.46Unit 646/644/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA359
s/n NA359
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 359
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Damaged beyond repair, by sabotage, Qastina, 25.2.46Units 620/644/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA360
s/n NA360
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 360
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 15.2.49Unit 620/644/620
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA361
s/n NA361
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 361
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Unit 620/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA362
s/n NA362
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 362
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Damaged beyond repair by sabotage, Qastina, 25.2.46Unit 644/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA363
s/n NA363
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 363
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 15.2.49Units 190/644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA364
s/n NA364
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 364
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Units 620/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA365
s/n NA365
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 365
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Units 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA366
s/n NA366
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 366
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA367
s/n NA367
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 367
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Unit 620
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA368
s/n NA368
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 368
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap, 16.12.48Unit 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA369
s/n NA369
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 369
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 16.12.48Unit 21 heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA370
s/n NA370
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 370
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap, 14.3.49Unit ?
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA371
s/n NA371
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 371
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 14.3.49Unit 21 Heavy Glider conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA372
s/n NA372
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 372
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold For Scrap 14.3.49Unit 620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA373
s/n NA373
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 373
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold For Scrap 14.3.49last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA374
s/n NA374
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 374
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 14.3.49Unit 620
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA375
s/n NA375
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 375
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
sold for scrap 16.12.48Units 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA376
s/n NA376
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 376
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Unit 620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA377
s/n NA377
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 377
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 14.3.47Unit 190/1385 HTSCU/1 Ferry Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA378
s/n NA378
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 378
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Unit 644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA379
s/n NA379
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 379
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 27.11.47Units 644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA380
s/n NA380
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 380
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 31.12.46Units 1 Ferry Unit/Air Command Souteast Asia/Mediterranean allied air force/ACSEA
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA392
s/n NA392
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 392
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 6.9.45Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA393
s/n NA393
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 393
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 28.11.46Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA394
s/n NA394
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 394
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 28.11.46Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA395
s/n NA395
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 395
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 24.7.47Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA396
s/n NA396
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 396
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold For Scrap 14.3.49Unit ?
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA397
s/n NA397
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 397
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 28.11.46Units 298/1341 Flight
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA398
s/n NA398
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 398
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
three engines cut on approach to Leconfield, 12.7.46Unit 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA399
s/n NA399
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 399
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
sold for Scrap 5.1.49Unit ?
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA400
s/n NA400
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 400
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 23.12.49Units 290/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA401
s/n NA401
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 401
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for scrap 30.12.49Unit 298/295/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA402
s/n NA402
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 402
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
sold for Scrap 31.12.46Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA403
s/n NA403
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 403
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 10.1.46Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA404
s/n NA404
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 404
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 10.1.46Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA405
s/n NA405
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 405
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 21..9.45Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA406
s/n NA406
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 406
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 3.9.47unit 620/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA407
s/n NA407
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 407
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 15.2.49Units 646/38 group/BTTU/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA408
s/n NA408
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 408
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 12.3.48Units 298/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA409
s/n NA409
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 409
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 12.12.49Units 298/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA410
s/n NA410
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 410
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Undercarriage collapsed on landing at Bridlington after air test 16.8.46Units 190/296/Operational and Refresher Training Unit/1385HTSCU/1333 TSTU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA412
s/n NA412
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 412
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 27.11.47Units 190/1385 HTSCU/1332 HTCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA413
s/n NA413
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 413
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 16.12.48Unit 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA414
s/n NA414
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 414
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 30.12.49Unit 190/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA415
s/n NA415
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 415
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 28.11.46Unit 1 Ferry Unit/ Mediterranean Allied air Forces/ Air Command Sout East Asia
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA416
s/n NA416
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 416
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 28.11.46Unit 190/1385HTSCU/1333TSTU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA417
s/n NA417
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 417
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 28.11.46Unit 190/1385 HTSCU/1333TSTU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA418
s/n NA418
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 418
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap, 5.6.50Unit ?
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA419
s/n NA419
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 419
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 12.7.48Unit 190/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA420
s/n NA420
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 420
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 25.7.46Unit 190/620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA421
s/n NA421
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 421
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Converted to 6182M on 5.11.46Units 190/1385 HTSCU/1333TSTU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA422
s/n NA422
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 422
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 16.12.48Unit 21 Heavy glidfer Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA423
s/n NA423
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 423
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 16.12.48Unit 21 Heavy glidfer Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA424
s/n NA424
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 424
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 26.9.46units 620/190/620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA425
s/n NA425
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 425
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 23.12.49Units 190/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA426
s/n NA426
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 426
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Units 620/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA427
s/n NA427
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 427
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 26.9.46Units 620/190/620/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA428
s/n NA428
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 428
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Converted to 6309M on 28.3.47Unit 620/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA429
s/n NA429
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 429
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Units 646/644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA430
s/n NA430
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 430
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Damaged beyond repair by sabotage, Qastina 25.2.46Units 646/644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA431
s/n NA431
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 431
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Damaged beyond repair, Qastina, 25.2.46Units 620/644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA444
s/n NA444
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 444
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge 31.12.46Units Air command South East Asia/ Mediterranean Allied Air Forces/ ACSEA
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA445
s/n NA445
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 445
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 12.3.48Units 646/644/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA446
s/n NA446
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 446
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 12.3.48Units 690/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA447
s/n NA447
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 447
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 30.12.49Units 620/290/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA448
s/n NA448
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 448
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Units 620/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA449
s/n NA449
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 449
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Units 620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA450
s/n NA450
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 450
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Groundlooped on takeoff at Wormwell, hit hedge and undercarriage collapsed, 5.8.45Unit 620
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA451
s/n NA451
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 451
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 1.7.47Units 620/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA452
s/n NA452
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 452
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Converted to 6310M on 28.3.47Unit 620/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA453
s/n NA453
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 453
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 30.12.49Units 620/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA454
s/n NA454
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 454
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 26.9.46Units 620/190/620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA455
s/n NA455
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 455
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap, 30.12.49Unit 620/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA456
s/n NA456
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 456
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 22.3.48Units 620/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA457
s/n NA457
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 457
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Units 620/190/620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA458
s/n NA458
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 458
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Converted to 6311M on 28.2.47Units 620/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA459
s/n NA459
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 459
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Unit 620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA460
s/n NA460
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 460
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Units 620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA461
s/n NA461
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 461
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Groundlooped on takeoff from Tarrant rushton, crashed and burnt, supply dropping flight, 8.7.46Units 620/295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA462
s/n NA462
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 462
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 15.2.49Unit 216 Group/ 47
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA463
s/n NA463
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 463
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap. 5.1.49Unit 644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA464
s/n NA464
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 464
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Damaged beyond repair, by sabotage, Qastina, 25.2.46Units 644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA465
s/n NA465
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 465
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 31.12.46Units Air Command South East Asia/Mediterranean Allied Air Forces/ACSEA
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA466
s/n NA466
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 466
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Units 644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA467
s/n NA467
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 467
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 15.2.49Units 620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax A.Mk.VII serial NA468
s/n NA468
Rootes Securities Ltd
NA 468
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 5.1.49Unit 644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA492
s/n NA492
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 492
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;640
Crash landed at Woodbridge, on return from ops Hasselt, 13.5.44Units 640
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA493
s/n NA493
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 493
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 12.5.45Unit 51/Handley Page
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA494
s/n NA494
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 494
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 431;434;1659
Struck of Charge, 20.3.47Unit 192/431/434/1659 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA495
s/n NA495
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 495
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 2.11.45Units 78
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA496
s/n NA496
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 496
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 11.5.45Units 51/187
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA497
s/n NA497
C
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 497
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 434;434;1659
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "WL*S". Also coded "WL*C" by 1944, and carried the name "Pubwash II". Completed over 30 missions. Struck off charge, 29.6.45Units 192/626/434/1659 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA498
s/n NA498
G
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 498
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 431;1659;1664
Served with No. 431 Squadron, RCAF, coded "SE*G" in May and June 1944. Struck off Charge, 17.12.46Units 431/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/1664HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA499
s/n NA499
A
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 499
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 431;1659
Served with No. 431 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded SE*A. Sold for Scrap 14.3.47Units 431/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA500
s/n NA500
G
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 500
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 427;432
last update: 2025-June-12
Bombing Boulogne France 1944-05-11 to 1944-05-12
(B) Sqn (RCAF) East Moor
135 aircraft - 80 Halifaxes, 47 Lancasters, 8 Mosquitoes - of 6 and 8 Groups. 2 Halifaxes lost. Some bombs fell in the railway yards but the main weight of the raid missed· the target and fell on nearby civilian housing. 128 civilians were killed.
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Halifax aircraft NA 500 missing from a night operation, Collided with a 427 Sqdn Halifax both machines crashing between le Portal (Pas-de-Calais) in the NW outskirts of Outreau and Sw of the entrance to Boulogne-sur-Mar Harbour. . Squadron Leader C.K. Barrett, Flying Officer D.G. Bentley, P/Os J.S.Thomson, T.A. Goundrey, A. Hamilton, FSs W.H. Riding (RAF) and G.E. Cole (RAF) were killed. One of the crew, not Canadian, missing believed killed. 1944-May-12 KIA RCAF Squadron Leader Clayton Keith Barrett 2024-11-09 1944-May-12 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Douglas George Bentley 2024-11-11 1944-May-12 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Thomas Alan Goundrey 2025-01-15 1944-May-12 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Alexander Hamilton 2025-01-15 1944-May-12 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James Sidney Thomson 2025-01-15 Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA501
s/n NA501
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 501
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, bingen, 22.12.44Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA502
s/n NA502
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 502
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, blaineville-sur-L'Eau, 29.6.44Unit 102
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA503
s/n NA503
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 503
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
hit trees at blockleyGloucs, after diversion, crashed and burnt, 30.7.44Unit 102
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA504
s/n NA504
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 504
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Kiel, 17.8.44Unit 102
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA505
s/n NA505
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 505
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420;425
Failed to Return, Acherers, 8.6.44Units 425/420
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-08 KIA RAFVR Sergeant John William Hampson 2021-09-15 1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Harry Robert Jones 2024-02-06 1944-June-08 KIA RAFVR Sergeant John Herbert McGlade 2021-09-15 1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Donald Blair Norton 2024-02-06 1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Douglas Wilfred Sammon 2024-02-06 1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Gordon Stanley Tanuck 2021-09-15 1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Francis Gorman Tilt 2024-02-06 1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Francis Edward Yates 2021-09-15 Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA506
s/n NA506
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 506
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Groundlooped on landing at Marston moor, got bogged down and undercarriage collapsed, 7.2.45Units 10/346/1663 Heavy Conversion Unit/1652 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA507
s/n NA507
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 507
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Not delivered- possibly crashed before delivered?last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA508
s/n NA508
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 508
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Sterkrade, 17.6.44Unit 102/77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA509
s/n NA509
B
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 509
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420;420
With No. 420 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "PT*B". Overshot Wellesbourne Mountford, and undercarriage collapsed, 23.10.44Units 102/420
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA510
s/n NA510
E
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 510
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 426;434
Used by No. 426 Squadron, RCAF, from Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire, coded "OW*E". Failed to Return, Cambrai, 13.6.44Units 434/426
last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Cambrai France 1944-06-12 to 1944-06-13
426 (B) Sqn (RCAF) RAF Linton-on-Ouse
426 Thunderbird Squadron (On Wings of Fire) RAF Linton-on Ouse. Halifax III aircraft NA 510 OW-E was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Hans Schafer of the 7/NJG 2, from Volkel airfield in the Netherlands during an operation against railyards in Cambrai, France. The Halifax crashed between Cagnicourt and Villers-les-Cagnicourt in the Pas-de-Calais area
Pilot Squadron Leader IM McRobie (RCAF) maintained control of his aircraft long enough for his crew to bale out. Sadly, Squadron Leader McRobie and Flight Engineer Sergeant E White (RAF) were themselves unable to get clear of the bomber and both killed in action
Pilot Officer MA Bzowy (RCAF) and Flying Officer GW Bedford (RCAF) survived and were taken as Prisoners of War
Warrant Officer Class 2 CA McLeod (RCAF), Flying Officer D Murray (RCAF), FS M Bemrose (RAF) and FS AH Hammond (RAF) all survived and were Evaders
Search for France-Crashes 39-45
Halifax BIII NA510 [Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database]...
1944-June-13 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant Gordon William Bedford 2024-11-10 1944-June-13 Evader RAF Flight Sergeant Mauritius Bemrose 2024-11-11 1944-June-13 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Michael Anthony Bzowy 2024-11-27 1944-June-13 Evader RAF Flight Sergeant Alfred Henry Hammond 2025-01-13 1944-June-13 Evader RCAF Warrant Officer 2 C A McLeod 2024-11-01 1944-June-13 KIA RCAF Squadron Leader Ian Mackenzie McRobie 2025-01-13 1944-June-13 Evader RCAF Flying Officer Daniel Murray 2025-01-13 1944-June-13 KIA RAF Sergeant Eric White 2025-01-13 Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA511
s/n NA511
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 511
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Engine failure on takeoff from Full Sutton, crash landed, caught fire and burnt out, 6.6.44Unit 102/77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA512
s/n NA512
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 512
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Landed at Bruxelles with oil leak 28.10.44 (no further trace)Units 102/77/347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA513
s/n NA513
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 513
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;78
Failed to Return, Acquet, 19.7.44Unit 78
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA514
s/n NA514
B
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 514
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 431
last update: 2025-June-12
Bombing Sterkrade Germany 1944-06-16 to 1944-06-17
(B) Sqn (RCAF) Croft
Battle of Normandy
321 aircraft- 162 Halifaxes, 147 Lancasters, 12 Mosquitoes - of 1, 4, 6 and 8 Groups to attack the synthetic-oil plant despite a poor weather forecast.
The target was found to be covered by thick cloud and the Pathfinder markers quickly disappeared. The Main Force crews could do little but bomb on to the diminishing glow of the markers in the cloud. R.A.F. photographic reconnaissance and German reports agree that most of the bombing was scattered, although some bombs did fall in the plant area, but with little effect upon production. 21 Germans and 6 foreigners were killed and 18 houses in the vicinity were destroyed
.Unfortunately, the route of the bomber stream passed near a German night-fighter beacon at Bocholt, only 30 miles from Sterkrade. The German controller had chosen this beacon as the holding point for his night fighters. Approximately 21 bombers were shot down by fighters and a further Io by Flak. 22 of the lost aircraft were Halifaxes, these losses being 13 ·6 per cent of the 162 Halifaxes on the raid. 77 Squadron, from Full Sutton near York, lost 7 of its 23 Halifaxes taking part in the raid.
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Halifax III aircraft NA 514 SE-B was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Josef Nabrich of the 3/NJG 1, (flying a Heinkel He 219 A-O from Venlo airfield, Netherlands) during an operation to bomb the synthetic-oil plants at Sterkrade and Holden, GermanyThe Halifax crashed at Grote Heide, Nistelrode, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Flying Officer GH Blatchford (RCAF), Flying Officer ILE "Harry" Gould (RCAF) and Flying Officer SW Lough (RCAF) were killed in action
Sergeant T "Moose" Masdin (RCAF), Sergeant DH "Panama" Hattey (RCAF) and Sergeant J Kennedy (RAFVR) survived and were taken as Prisoners of War
Flying Officer RE Carter MiD (RCAF) survived and evaded with the assistance of the Dutch underground but he, as well as two other evaders, Flight Lieutenant RA Walker DFC (RAF) and Flying Officer JS Nott (RAAF) were caught by the Nazi SD (an agency of the SS) and murdered on July 9,1944 at Tilburg in the Netherlands
A British Military Court charged 10 individuals with this war crime in 1946 and four were hanged September 5, 1947
The remains of these three airmen were never recovered. Flying Officer Carter has no known grave and he is commemorated on the Runnymede War Memorial
Mention in Despatches - 431 Squadron (deceased) - Award effective 13 June 1946 as per London Gazette of that date and AFRO 726/46 dated 26 July 1946. Detail provided by H Halliday, Orleans, Ontario
There were four 431 Squadron Halifax aircraft lost on this operation on this date. Please see Fairless, AG for Halifax MZ 520 SE-O, Johnson, EO for Halifax LK 837 SE-L and Johnstone, MM for Halifax MZ 537 SE-L
Footprints on the Sands of Time, RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of War in Germany 1939-45 by Oliver Clutton-Brock, pages 202, 262, 507 16/17.06.1944 431 Squadron Halifax III NA514 Fg. Off...
1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Glenn Hugh Blachford 2024-11-12 1944-June-17 Evader Executed RCAF Flying Officer Roy Edward Carter MiD 2024-01-13 1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Innis Lindsay Elwin Gould 2025-01-21 1944-June-17 PoW RCAF Sergeant Donald Hubert Hattey 2025-01-21 1944-June-17 PoW RAFVR Sergeant John Kennedy 2025-01-21 1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Spencer William Lough 2025-01-21 1944-June-17 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Thomas Masdin 2025-01-21 Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA515
s/n NA515
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 515
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;77
Struck off charge, 24.2.47Units 102/77/347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA516
s/n NA516
A
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 516
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 431;432;434
last update: 2025-June-12
Bombing Sterkrade Germany 1944-06-16 to 1944-06-17
(B) Sqn (RCAF) East Moor
Battle of Normandy
The target was found to be covered by thick cloud and the Pathfinder markers quickly disappeared. The Main Force crews could do little but bomb on to the diminishing glow of the markers in the cloud. R.A.F. photographic reconnaissance and German reports agree that most of the bombing was scattered, although some bombs did fall in the plant area, but with little effect upon production. 21 Germans and 6 foreigners were killed and 18 houses in the vicinity were destroyed.
Unfortunately, the route of the bomber stream passed near a German night-fighter beacon at Bocholt, only 30 miles from Sterkrade. The German controller had chosen this beacon as the holding point for his night fighters. Approximately 21 bombers were shot down by fighters and a further IO by Flak. 22 of the lost aircraft were Halifaxes, these losses being l 3.6 per cent of the 162 Halifaxes on the raid. 77 Squadron, from Full Sutton near York, lost 7 of its 23 Halifaxes taking part in the raid.
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Halifax BIII aircraft it NA 516 QO-A missing during an operation to bomb the synthetic-oil plant at Sterkrade, Germany, believed to have been shot down by a night fighter
The Halifax crashed at Scheggertdijk, Almen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Flying Officer HF Morrow (RCAF), Pilot Officer JL Shanks (RCAF) and Pilot Officer JM Johnston (RCAF) were all killed in action
Flying Officer JA Slimmon (RCAF) and Sergeant VR Herrick (RCAF) survived and were taken as Prisoner of War
Warrant Officer Class 1 LR McElroy (RCAF) and Sergeant R Gelfand (RCAF) survived and evaded briefly. They were captured separately in the Netherlands and both later also escaped from captivity
1944-June-17 PoW Escaper RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Gelfand 2023-02-06 1944-June-17 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Victor Raymond Herrick 2023-02-06 1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Markey Johnston 2023-02-06 1944-June-17 PoW Escaper RCAF Pilot Officer Lawrence Russell McElroy 2023-02-06 1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Hugh Francis Morrow 2023-02-06 1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Jack Laverne Shanks 2023-02-06 1944-June-17 PoW RCAF Flying Officer James Alfred Slimmon 2023-02-06 Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA517
s/n NA517
R
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 517
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;431;432
With No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, c.1944/45, coded "6U*R". Sold for Scrap 14.3.47Unit 431/432/415/190
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA518
s/n NA518
G
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 518
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 425;425;426
Served with No. 425 Squadron, RCAF, coded "KW*G". Struck off charge, 11.5.45unit 426/425/187
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA519
s/n NA519
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 519
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Ditched into the sea after three engines failed on return home from ops. Oil system froze, 28.10.44Units 158/347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA520
s/n NA520
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 520
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck of Charge, 30.9.46units 77/347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA521
s/n NA521
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 521
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Overshot landing at Hatfield, groundlooped and undercarriage collapsed, 14.3.45units 640/462/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit/ 1663HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA522
s/n NA522
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 522
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Force-landed at Hotham, Yorks, during air test, 5.6.44Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA523
s/n NA523
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 523
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 7.1.47Units 158/297/21 Heavy glider conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA524
s/n NA524
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 524
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;77
Failed to Return, Sterkrade, 17.6.44Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA525
s/n NA525
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 525
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 27.11.45Units 77/578/51
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA526
s/n NA526
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 526
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 13.2.47Units 78
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA527
s/n NA527
N
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 527
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 425;432
Served with No. 432 (B) Squadron, RCAF at East Moor, Yorkshire. Coded "QO*N". Struck off Charge, 9.8.45Units 432/1665 heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA528
s/n NA528
G
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 528
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420;425
Served with No. 420 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded PT*G. Crashed at White Waltham, UK at 9:20 on 30 July 1944, on return from mission to a German strongpoint at Amaye-sur-Seulles in Normandy. Aircraft overshot landing at White Waltham, wound up in cutting on railroad tracks north west of airfield. Caught fire and one hung up bomb detonated, causing several injuries. Pilot Officer H.E. Goldstraw of 425 Squadron, RCAF received OBE for his part in rescue of tail gunner from burning wreckage.Unit 434
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA529
s/n NA529
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 529
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return. Fromental, 9.8.44Units 51/578/347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA530
s/n NA530
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 530
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Crash landed at Carnabyafter port undercarriage failed, 22.2.45Units 76/1652 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA531
s/n NA531
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 531
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 13.12.46Unit 77/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA543
s/n NA543
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 543
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 15.8.47Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA544
s/n NA544
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 544
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scarp 14.3.47Unit 77/1663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA545
s/n NA545
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 545
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Sterkrade, 17.6.44Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA546
s/n NA546
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 546
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Bochum, 4.11.44Unit 78/346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA547
s/n NA547
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 547
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to return, Worms, 22.2.45Unit 78/346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA548
s/n NA548
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 548
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Damaged on ops, Osnabruck, 2.3.45. converted to 5267M on 30.6.45Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA549
s/n NA549
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 549
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Bochum, 4.11.44Unit 78/346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA550
s/n NA550
U
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 550
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 431;432;434
With No. 431 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "SE*U" when damaged on mission to Hamburg on 28/29 July 1944. Attacked by Ju-88, forced to jettison bomb load in steep dive. Pilot gave bail out order, cancelled this when control was recovered but mid-upper gunner Sgt. W. M. Niven and 2 other crew had already bailed out. All became PoW. Rear gunner Sgt. F. Clay received DFC for assisting pilot on return flight despite severe injuries. Pilot Flying Officer R. Holden received DSO for this mission.struck off Charge, 13.2.47
Unit 432/434
last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Hamburg Germany 1944-07-28 to 1944-07-29
(B) Sqn (RCAF) Croft
Battle of Normandy
307 aircraft - 187 Halifaxes, ro6 Lancasters, 14 Mosquitoes - from 1, 6 and 8 Groups. German fighters again appeared, this time on the homeward flight, and 18 Halifaxes and 4 Lancasters were lost, 7·2 per cent of the force. The Halifax casualties were 9·6 per cent; 431 (Canadian) Squadron, flying from Croft airfield in Co. Durham, lost 5 of its 17 aircraft on the raid.
·This was the first heavy raid on Hamburg since the Battle of Hamburg just a year earlier. The bombing on this raid was not well concentrated. The Germans estimated that only 120 aircraft bombed in the city area, with no recognizable aiming point, though western and harbour areas received the most bombs. A large proportion of the attack fell on areas devastated in 1943 but 265 people were killed and more than 17,000 had to be evacuated from homes damaged in this raid, many of which were probably only temporary wooden accommodation at this stage of the war. Brunswig (p. 339) describes how a panic developed at the large Reeperbahn air-raid shelter when a lone aircraft came in to bomb after the all clear had sounded and nearby Flak guns opened fire. 2 women were trampled to death and others were badly hurt.
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
With No. 431 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "SE*U" when damaged on mission to Hamburg on 28/29 July 1944. Attacked by Ju-88, forced to jettison bomb load in steep dive. Pilot gave bail out order, cancelled this when control was recovered but mid-upper gunner Sgt. W. M. Niven and 2 other crew had already bailed out. All became PoW. Rear gunner Sgt. F. Clay received DFC for assisting pilot on return flight despite severe injuries. Pilot Flying Officer R. Holden received DSO for this mission.
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA551
s/n NA551
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 551
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Collied with Halifax NA546 at 2,000 feet while in the circuitat Elvington after ops, aircraft crashed at Dunnington and burnt, 13.7.44Unit 78/346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA552
s/n NA552
U
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 552
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 432;434;1659
Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "WL*U". sold for Scarp, 14.3.47Units 432/434/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA553
s/n NA553
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 553
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Converted to 5633M on 7.9.45Unit 76/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit/ Empire Air Navigation School
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA554
s/n NA554
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 554
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 14.9.46Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA555
s/n NA555
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 555
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Scholven (day), 7.10.44Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA556
s/n NA556
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 556
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 18.9.46Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA557
s/n NA557
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 557
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Sterkrade, 21.11.44Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA558
s/n NA558
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 558
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Bochum, 4.11.44Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA559
s/n NA559
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 559
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Damaged beyond repair at Saltby, 27.6.45Unit 102/1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA560
s/n NA560
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 560
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;640
Failed to Return, Les Landes, 10.8.44unit 640
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA561
s/n NA561
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 561
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 13.12.46Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA562
s/n NA562
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 562
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 8.8.46Unit 346/1663 Heavy Conversion Unit/1652HCU/1658HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA563
s/n NA563
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 563
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Dijon, 11.8.44Unit 640
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA564
s/n NA564
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 564
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 26.10.46Unit 102/346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA565
s/n NA565
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 565
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 27.9.45Unit 102/1665 heacvy Conversion Unit/Operational and Refresher Training Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA566
s/n NA566
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 566
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Groundlooped on landing at Carnaby, undercarriage collapsed and aircraft caught fire, 5.3.45unit 158/1652 Heavy Conversion Unit/1663HCU/1658HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA567
s/n NA567
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 567
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;76
Failed to Return, Bochum, 9.10.44, crashed at Arpath, GermanyUnits 78/76
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-October-09 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Kenneth James Edmison 2022-07-26 1944-October-09 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Mike Gnida 2021-08-07 1944-October-09 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Lloyd Ronald Kay 2021-08-11 1944-October-09 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Thomas George Morin 2023-01-09 1944-October-09 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Adolph Leroy Wall 2021-07-12 Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA568
s/n NA568
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 568
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;578
Failed to return, Gelsenkirchen, 12.9.44Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA569
s/n NA569
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 569
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Groundlooped on landing at Burn, undercarriage collapsed and port outer engine caught fire, 23.10.44Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA570
s/n NA570
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 570
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 30.9.46Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA571
s/n NA571
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 571
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 2.11.45Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA572
s/n NA572
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 572
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Magdeburg, 16.1.45Unit 77/102/347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA573
s/n NA573
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 573
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 15.8.47Unit 640/1658 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA574
s/n NA574
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 574
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;578
Engine fire while on fighter affiliation flight at 5,000 feet. wing and port outer engine broke off in flight and aircraft crashed at West Haddlesey, near Burn, 26.1.45Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA575
s/n NA575
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 575
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 30.1.47Units 76/21 Heavy glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA576
s/n NA576
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 576
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 13.2.47Unit 346/347/21 Heavy Glider conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA577
s/n NA577
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 577
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 14.3.47Unit 346/347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA578
s/n NA578
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 578
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;640
Failed to Return, Wassen, 25.8.44Unit 640
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA579
s/n NA579
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 579
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420;1664
Struck off charge, 24.9.46Units 420/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA580
s/n NA580
K
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 580
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420;425
Served with No. 420 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded PT*K. Groundlooped on three engined landing at Tangmere, and undercarriage collapsed, 8.8.44Unit 425/420
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA581
s/n NA581
U
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 581
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 425
With No. 425 Squadron, RCAF, at Tholthorpe, Yorkshire. Coded "KW*U". Dived into ground, one mile southwest of Blyth, Notts from 4,000 feet and burst into flames, cause obscure, 2.8.44Unit 425
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-02 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer John Edward Code 2024-03-10 1944-August-02 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Paul Patrick Davies 2024-10-31 1944-August-02 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer John Jerome Pigeon 2021-08-24 1944-August-02 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Edmund Francis Pitkin 2023-12-13 1944-August-02 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Lloyd Snider 2023-12-13 1944-August-02 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant George Douglas Stark DFC 2023-12-13 1944-August-02 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Mervin Hugh Waters 2024-11-01 Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA582
s/n NA582
D
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 582
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;420
Served with No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded 6U*D. Undershot East Moor after ops, and crashed two miles east of Stillington 15.10.44Unit 420/415
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA583
s/n NA583
F
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 583
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;420
Served with No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded 6U*F. Failed to Return, Dusseldorf, 2.11.44Units 420/415
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-November-02 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Jack Douglas Griffin 2021-11-07 1944-November-02 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Milton Robert Morton 2021-11-07 1944-November-02 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Vincent Emerald Nelson 2021-11-07 1944-November-02 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Hyman Rabkin 2021-11-07 1944-November-02 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Wilfred Henry Regimbal 2021-11-07 1944-November-02 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Henry Montgomery Rose 2021-11-07 1944-November-02 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Samuel Oscar Spence 2021-11-07 1944-November-02 KIA RCAF Flying Officer George John Zbura 2021-11-07 Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA584
s/n NA584
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 584
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;76
Attacked by intruder on return from ops, Kamen, 4.3.45, force landed at Carnaby.Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA585
s/n NA585
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 585
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
A hung-up 1000lb bomb exploded on landing at elvingtonafter ops, Octeville, 10.9.44Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA586
s/n NA586
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 586
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for scrap 14.3.47Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA587
s/n NA587
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 587
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;419;1664;1666
Converted to 5225M on 28.4.45Unit 419/1666 heavy Conversion Unit/1664HCU/Aeroplane and Armament experimental Establishment
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA599
s/n NA599
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 599
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 16.12.46Unit 102
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA600
s/n NA600
U
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 600
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;415
Served with No. 415 Squadron, RCAF, coded "6U*U". Struck off Charge, 25.1.47Unit 415/187
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA601
s/n NA601
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 601
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Groundlooped at takeoff at Marston Moor and undercarriage collapsed, 25.9.44Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA602
s/n NA602
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 602
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to return, Hannover, 5.1.45Unit 102
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA603
s/n NA603
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 603
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;578
Failed to Return, Magdeburg, 17.1.45Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA604
s/n NA604
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 604
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;578
Failed to Return, Russelheim, 13.8.44Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA605
s/n NA605
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 605
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Loss of power on takeoff, overshot onto railway line, ops, 9.10.44Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA606
s/n NA606
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 606
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return. nordstern, 11.9.44Unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA607
s/n NA607
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 607
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;1664
Struck off Charge, 9.11.46Unit 415/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA608
s/n NA608
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 608
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;1664
Converted to 5227M on 20.4.45Unit 415/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA609
s/n NA609
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 609
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415
Operated by No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF when it collided with Halifax MZ633 over UK on 21 August 1944, during ferry mission, crashed between Birkin and West Haddlesey, North Yorkshire. All 12 crew from both aircraft killed.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-21 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Herbert Ronald Wilkinson Fox 2022-08-21 1944-August-21 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Andrew Harold Adelbert McBain DFC 2021-08-24 1944-August-21 KIFA RCAF Wing Commander John Gordon McNeill DFC 2021-08-24 1944-August-21 KIFA RCAF Sergeant James Walton Mitchell 2021-08-24 1944-August-21 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Richard Cecil Morrison 2021-08-24 1944-August-21 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant George Everette Steel-Davies 2021-08-24 Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA610
s/n NA610
B
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 610
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;415;420
With No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, c.1944/45, coded "6U*B" Struck off Charge, 10.9.46Unit 420/415.
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA611
s/n NA611
T
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 611
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;420
Served with No. 415 Squadron, RCAF, coded "6U*T". Groundlooped on takeoff from East Moor for ops, crashed and burst into flames, 14.1.45Unit 420/415
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA612
s/n NA612
S
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 612
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 415;425;1664
Struck off charge, 4.8.45Unit 425/415/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Conversion Kamen Germany & Dortmund-Ems Canal, Germany 1945-03-03 to 1945-03-04
1664 (OT) HCU (RAF) RAF Dishforth
1664 "Caribou" Heavy Conversion Unit RAF Dishforth. Halifax BIII aircraft NA 612 DH-S joined 451 aircraft as part of a diversionary force dropping 'window' to interrupt the German radar and prevent their directing aircraft to intercept the attacks on Kamen (Synthetic oil plant) and Ladbergen (Dortmund-Ems Canal) as part of Operation "Sweepstake" on the night of March 3/4, 1945
Sadly, on the same night, a group of over 100 German night fighters carried out Operation "Gisela" and followed the Allied aircraft back to their bases in England, shooting down at least five aircraft, Halifax NA-612 being one of them. Night fighter pilot Lt Arnold Doring of 10/NJG3 attacked NA 612 as it approached RAF Dishforth to land. The Halifax turned inverted and crashed directly to the ground near Brafferton, North Yorkshire, killing the entire crew. The aircraft was totally destroyed in the resulting fire
Sergeant L Boardman (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 2 J W Buttrey (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 2 L T Chevrier (RCAF), Flight Sergeant J E Fielder (RCAF), Pilot Officer K W Griffey (RCAF), Flying Officer G H Lloyd (RCAF) and Sergeant S Forster (RAFVR) were all killed in action and all were buried in various cemeteries in the UK
Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database
1945-March-04 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Leonard Boardman 2024-03-04 1945-March-04 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 John William Buttrey 2024-11-27 1945-March-04 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 Lawrence Theodore Chevrier 2025-01-26 1945-March-04 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Edward Fielder 2024-03-04 1945-March-04 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Sidney Forster 2024-03-11 1945-March-04 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Kenneth William Griffey 2024-03-04 1945-March-04 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer George Henry Lloyd 2024-03-04 Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA613
s/n NA613
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 613
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 6.1.47Unit 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA614
s/n NA614
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 614
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 14.3.47Unit 298/644/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA615
s/n NA615
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 615
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 7.10.46Unit 346/102
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA616
s/n NA616
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 616
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Venlo (day), 4.9.44Unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA617
s/n NA617
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 617
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 13.7.45Unit 578/1652 heavy Conversion Unit/1658HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA618
s/n NA618
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 618
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;578
Failed to Return, Reisholz, 21.2.45Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA619
s/n NA619
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 619
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 9.12.46Units 102/462/1663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA620
s/n NA620
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 620
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 5.3.47Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA621
s/n NA621
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 621
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Groundlooped on takeoff at rufforth, and hit halifax LK785, 10.5.45Units 462/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit/1663HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA622
s/n NA622
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 622
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Groundlooped on landing at Rufforth, port wing hit ground and undercarriage collapsed, 4.4.45Units 462/1658 Heavy conversion Unit/1663HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA623
s/n NA623
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 623
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Force landed at Wold Dyke Farm, Middleton-On-the-Woods, Yorks, ex ops, Essen 29.11.44Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA624
s/n NA624
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 624
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge 11.9.46Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA625
s/n NA625
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 625
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 20.3.47Unit 51/187
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA626
s/n NA626
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 626
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 15.8.47Unit 51
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA627
s/n NA627
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 627
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Overshot Melbourne and undercarriage collapsed after hydraulic failure on return from ops, 22.12.44Unit 10
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA628
s/n NA628
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 628
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 1.11.46Unit 190/Thorney Island
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA629
s/n NA629
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 629
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420
Ditched into North Sea on return from ops, Kiel, 16.9.44Unit 420
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA630
s/n NA630
N
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 630
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420;1664
Served with No. 420 Squadron, RCAF, coded "PT*N". Struck off Charge, 15.8.47Unit 425/1659 Heavy conversion Unit/1664HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA631
s/n NA631
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 631
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420
Struck off charge, 7.10.46unit 420/187
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA632
s/n NA632
B
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 632
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 420;420;1664
Served with No. 420 Squadron, RCAF, coded "PT*B". Overshot on landing at Rufforth, hit totem pole and undercarriage collapsed, 15.1.45Unit 420/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA633
s/n NA633
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 633
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 425;425;1664
Struck off charge, 28.1.47Units 425/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA634
s/n NA634
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 634
Hercules XVI
Known Units: 425;1659;1664
Struck off charge, 15.8.47Unit 425/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/ 1664HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA635
s/n NA635
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 635
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Converted to 6329M on 13.5.47Units 644/1 Ferry Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA636
s/n NA636
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 636
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 26.11.46Unit 644/298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA637
s/n NA637
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 637
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Chage, 26.9.46Units 296/
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA638
s/n NA638
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 638
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 26.9.46Units 296/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA639
s/n NA639
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 639
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Ran into soft ground while taxiing at Gardermoen, Norway and damaged beyond repair, 11.5.45Units 298/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA640
s/n NA640
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 640
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 14.3.47Unit 297/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA641
s/n NA641
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 641
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 26.10.46Units 298/21 heavy Glider Conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA642
s/n NA642
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 642
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 11.4.46Units 1 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit/Air Command South East Asia/Middle East/ACSEA/1577 Flight
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA643
s/n NA643
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 643
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Converted to 5287M on 26.2.46Units 297/Operational and Refreshed Training Unit/
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA644
s/n NA644
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 644
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 26.12.46Units 2 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit/ Air command South East Asia/Middle East/ACSEA/Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA656
s/n NA656
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 656
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Crashed on Airfield boundary at Honiley, after being diverted on one engine, burnt, 23.2.45Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA657
s/n NA657
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 657
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 14.3.47Unit 297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA658
s/n NA658
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 658
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 31.7.47unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA659
s/n NA659
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 659
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 3.4.47unit 644/297/1 Ferry Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA660
s/n NA660
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 660
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;298
Failed to Return, special Operations Executive, 3.4.45Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA661
s/n NA661
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 661
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 14.3.47Unit 190
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA662
s/n NA662
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 662
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Converted to 5780M on 11.1.46Unit 644/Operational and Refresher Training Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA663
s/n NA663
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 663
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 31.7.47unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA664
s/n NA664
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 664
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;298
Crashed and burnt at South Farm, Smallwood, Spettisburg, Dorset, after stalling downwind in circuit, ex ops, 27.3.45Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA665
s/n NA665
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 665
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 10.8.45Unit 644/298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA666
s/n NA666
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 666
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 26.9.45Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA667
s/n NA667
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 667
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 26.12.46Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA668
s/n NA668
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 668
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Undershot Earls Coln and hit tree, 28.2.45Unit 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA669
s/n NA669
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 669
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return from "Operation Varsity" 24.3.45Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA670
s/n NA670
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 670
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, worms, 22.2.45Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA671
s/n NA671
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 671
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 31.12.46Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA672
s/n NA672
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 672
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to return, special Operations Executive, "Tablejam 353" to Lolland area of Denmark, 27.4.45Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA673
s/n NA673
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 673
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 31.1.47Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA674
s/n NA674
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 674
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return from "Window" sortie, 10.12.44Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA675
s/n NA675
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 675
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 31.12.46Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA676
s/n NA676
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 676
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 11.10.45Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA677
s/n NA677
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 677
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 23.7.46Unit 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA678
s/n NA678
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 678
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 15.8.47Unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA679
s/n NA679
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 679
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 28.11.46Unit 246
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA680
s/n NA680
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 680
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Shot down by Cranwell by intruder, ex ops, 3.3.45Unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA681
s/n NA681
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 681
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Homberg, crashed and burnt, 15.3.45Unit 102/347
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA682
s/n NA682
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 682
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 24.2.47Unit Royal Aircraft Establishment/DeHavilland
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA683
s/n NA683
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 683
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 5..5.45Unit 246
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA684
s/n NA684
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 684
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold to College as G-AJPG, 31.5.47Unit Mediterranean/Middle east/College of Aeronautics
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA685
s/n NA685
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 685
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 14.3.47Unit 190
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA686
s/n NA686
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 686
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 26.12.46Unit ?
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA687
s/n NA687
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 687
Hercules XVI
Known Units: ;171
Failed to Return, from "Window" sortie, 7.1.45Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA688
s/n NA688
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 688
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 14.3.47Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA689
s/n NA689
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 689
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 28.12.46Unit Air Transport Tactical Development Unit/ 29 Maintenance Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA690
s/n NA690
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 690
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 9.12.46Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA691
s/n NA691
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 691
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 17.1.47Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA692
s/n NA692
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 692
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 31.5.45Unit 1652 Heavy conversion Unit/1663HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA693
s/n NA693
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 693
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 22.8.46Unit 520/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA694
s/n NA694
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 694
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Belly-landed at North Creake after ops, 4.12.44Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA695
s/n NA695
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 695
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Damaged 4.12.44 while on ops, repaired but Struck off charge after war.Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA696
s/n NA696
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 696
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 14.3.47Unit 190
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA697
s/n NA697
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 697
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 20.3.47Unit 296/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA698
s/n NA698
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 698
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 11.7.46Unit 296/21 Heavy glider conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA699
s/n NA699
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 699
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 22.11.46Unit 298/1665 Heavy conversion Unit/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA700
s/n NA700
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 700
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off charge, 22.11.46Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA701
s/n NA701
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 701
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Struck off Charge, 31.5.45Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA702
s/n NA702
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 702
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Collieded with Wellington LP906of 81 OTU, over Warrington, bucks, 3.6.45Unit 296/Operational and Refresher Training Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA703
s/n NA703
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 703
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Overshot on landing at Saltby, 9.7.45Unit 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B/A.Mk.III serial NA704
s/n NA704
Fairey Aviation Co Ltd
NA 704
Hercules XVI
Known Units:
Sold for Scrap 14.3.47Unit 297/Operational and Refresher Training Unit/ 1385HTSCU/1 Ferry Unit
last update: 2025-February-05