Halifax (Total: 6,178, Canadian: 475, Group 475)

Handley Page Halifax

(RAF Photo, 1942)(Source Harold A Skaarup Web Page) A Royal Air Force Handley Page Halifax Mk. II Series I (Serial No. W7676), coded TL-P, of No. 35 Squadron, RAF, based at Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire in the UK, being piloted by Flight Lieutenant Reginald Lane, (later Lieutenant-General, RCAF), over the English countryside. Flt Lt Lane and his crew flew twelve operations in W7676, which failed to return from a raid on Nuremberg on the night of 28/29 August 1942, when it was being flown by Flt Sgt D. John and crew.

The Handley Page Halifax is a British Royal Air Force (RAF) four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War. It was developed by Handley Page to the same specification as the contemporary twin-engine Avro Manchester.

The Halifax has its origins in the twin-engine HP56 proposal of the late 1930s, produced in response to the British Air Ministry's Specification P.13/36 for a capable medium bomber for "world-wide use." The HP56 was ordered as a backup to the Avro 679, both aircraft being designed to use the underperforming Rolls-Royce Vulture engine. The Handley Page design was altered at the Ministry to a four-engine arrangement powered by the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine; the rival Avro 679 was produced as the twin-engine Avro Manchester which, while regarded as unsuccessful mainly due to the Vulture engine, was a direct predecessor of the famed Avro Lancaster. Both the Lancaster and the Halifax would emerge as capable four-engined strategic bombers, thousands of which would be built and operated by the RAF and several other services during the War.

On 25 October 1939, the Halifax performed its maiden flight, and it entered service with the RAF on 13 November 1940. It quickly became a major component of Bomber Command, performing routine strategic bombing missions against the Axis Powers, many of them at night. Arthur Harris, the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Bomber Command, described the Halifax as inferior to the rival Lancaster (in part due to its smaller payload) though this opinion was not shared by many of the crews that flew it, particularly for the MkIII variant. Nevertheless, production of the Halifax continued until April 1945. During their service with Bomber Command, Halifaxes flew a total of 82,773 operations and dropped 224,207 tons of bombs, while 1,833 aircraft were lost. The Halifax was also flown in large numbers by other Allied and Commonwealth nations, such as the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Free French Air Force and Polish forces. Wikipedia

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Halifax NA411, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA411

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NA 411

Hercules XVI

Crash landed after takeoff from Great Dunmow with ailerons locked, 2.9.45
unit 190/620
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA102, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA102

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NA 102

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 21.2.47
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA103, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA103

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NA 103

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Special Operations Executive, 26.2.45
unit 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 NA104, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA104

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NA 104

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 26.9.47
units 297/21 Heavy Glider conversion Unit/Elsham Wolds/ 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA105, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA105

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NA 105

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 28.12.46
unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA106, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA106

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NA 106

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 3.10.43
Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA107, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA107

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NA 107

Hercules XVI

Abandonned near North Creakeafter being shot up by intruder, 4.3.45
Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA108, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA108

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NA 108

Hercules XVI

Sort of fuel, and icing, abandonned east of Paris while on ops, 26.11.44
Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA109, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA109

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NA 109

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 14.9.46
unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA110, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA110

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NA 110

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 8.8.46
Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA111, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA111

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NA 111

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Mandrelscreen, 8.3.45
Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-March-07 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Harold Alexander Coutts 2024-05-05
1945-March-07 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Kenneth George Thomas 2021-07-20

Halifax NA112, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA112

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NA 112

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 8.8.47
unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA113, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA113

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NA 113

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 24.3.45
unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA114, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA114

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NA 114

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Hannover, 5.1.45
unit 76/10
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA115, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA115

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NA 115

Hercules XVI

Hit at dispersal at Tarrant rushton by Hamilcar NX874 which was attempting a forced landing, 17.4.45
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA116, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA116

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NA 116

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 30.1.47
unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA117, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA117

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NA 117

Hercules XVI


last update: 2025-March-10

Halifax NA118, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA118

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NA 118

Hercules XVI


last update: 2025-March-10

Halifax NA119, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA119

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NA 119

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 20.3.47
unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA120, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA120

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NA 120

Hercules XVI

Landed too fast at Tarrant rushton, pilot raised undercarriage to avoid overshoot, 5.2.45
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA121, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA121

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NA 121

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, bochum, 4.11.44
Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA122, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA122

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NA 122

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 20.8.46
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA123, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA123

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NA 123

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 28.8.45
Unit 578/51
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA124, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA124

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NA 124

Hercules XVI

With No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, c.1944/45, coded "6U*I".converted to 5687M on 3.10.45
Unit 415/1665 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA125, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA125

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NA 125

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 15.8.47
units 644/297/1 ferry Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA126, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA126

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NA 126

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 25.9.46
Unit 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA127, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA127

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NA 127

Hercules XVI

Ditched in North Sea after Special Operation Executive operations "Ears 2" to norway, 3.3.45
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-March-03 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class John Corman 2024-04-18
1945-March-03 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant John Alfred Miller 2023-11-13

Halifax NA128, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA128

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NA 128

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 26.12.46
unit 644/297
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA129, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA129

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NA 129

Hercules XVI

Mainplane strained in dive after icing, while on transport flight to Almaza, Egypt, 8.12.45
Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA130, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA130

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NA 130

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 14.3.47
Unit 297
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA131, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA131

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NA 131

Hercules XVI

Crashed in circuit during night training exercise, Tarrant Rushton, 26.3.45
unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA132, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA132

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NA 132

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 15.8.47
unit 296/21 Heavy glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA133, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA133

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NA 133

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 13.1.47
unit 297/1385 HTSCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA134, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA134

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NA 134

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 26.9.46
Unit 297/kinloss
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA135, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA135

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 135

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 27.2.47
Unit 190
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA136, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA136

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NA 136

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 24.9.46
units 520/518
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA137, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA137

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 137

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 15.11.46
unit ATTDU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA138, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA138

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 138

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 10.9.46
Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA139, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA139

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NA 139

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 14.3.47
unit 190
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA140, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA140

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NA 140

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 14.3.47
unit 190
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA141, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA141

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 141

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 14.3.47
Unit 247
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA142, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA142

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NA 142

Hercules XVI

Overshot Stornoway and crashed into sea 30 yards from boundary of airfield, 8.9.45
Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA143, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA143

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 143

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 10.9.46
unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA144, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA144

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NA 144

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 27.2.47
unit 644/198
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA145, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA145

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 145

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 26.10.46
Units 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA146, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA146

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 146

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 10.9.46
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA147, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA147

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 147

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 14.3.47
Unit 462
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA148, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA148

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 148

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 20.9.45
Unit 462
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA149, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA149

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 149

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 23.11.46
unit 10/76
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA150, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA150

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 150

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 14.10.46
unit 51
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA162, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA162

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 162

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 18.9.46
Unit Empire Air Navigation School
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA163, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA163

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 163

Hercules XVI

Hit tree with wingtip on landing at Cheburgh after ops, 14.2.45, damaged beyond repair
Units 78/76
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA164, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA164

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 164

Hercules XVI

Groundlooped on landing at Ho,me-On-spalding with both starboard engines feathered, and hit tar barrels ex ops, 21.2.45
Unit 78
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA165, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA165

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 165

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 17.1.47
Unit 102/519
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA166, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA166

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 166

Hercules XVI

Shot down over Begum (Hagen) 16.3.45
Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA167, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA167

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 167

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, 3.2.45
Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA168, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA168

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 168

Hercules XVI

Rolled off perimeter track at Thorney Island and undercarriage collapsed, 18.7.46
Units Gosport/Air-Sea Warfare Development Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA169, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA169

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 169

Hercules XVI

With No. 420 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "PT*O". Struck off Charge, 24.5.45
Unit 420
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA170, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA170

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 170

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 14.3.47
Unit 76/517
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA171, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA171

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 171

Hercules XVI

Failed to return, Koln, 30.12.44, crashed on target
Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA172, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA172

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 172

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 17.10.45
unit 76/78
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA173, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA173

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 173

Hercules XVI

Collied with Halifax LL559 on ground, Bovingdon, 6.3.45
Units 102/578
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA174, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA174

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 174

Hercules XVI

Bombs exploded during loading, aircraft disintegratedand burnt, Elvington, 28.12.44
Unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA175, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA175

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 175

Hercules XVI

Abandonned near Goch target area after being attacked by Ju 88, 8.2.45
Unit 102
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA176, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA176

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 176

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 17.10.45
unit 78
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA177, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA177

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 177

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 5.6.47
units 96/521/520/518
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA178, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA178

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 178

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 17.10.43
unit 429/420
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA179, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA179

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 179

Hercules XVI

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 5.3.45
Unit 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

General [Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database]...

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General Aircraft accidents in Yorkshire

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 NA180, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA180

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 180

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 16.5.45
Unit 429/425
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA181, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA181

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 181

Hercules XVI

With No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, c.1944/45, coded "6U*D" Struck off charge, 5.3.47
units 429/158.
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA182, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA182

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 182

Hercules XVI

Converted to a Mark V1 4.45 and then written off, 2.11.45
unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA183, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA183

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 183

Hercules XVI

Served with No. 420 Squadron, RCAF, coded "PT*M". Failed to Return, Magdeburg, 17.1.45
last 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 NA184, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA184

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 184

Hercules XVI

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 NA185, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA185

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 185

Hercules XVI

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 2021-08-06
1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Douglas Leander Lorenz 2024-04-22
1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Lorne Mortimore Spry 2024-05-03
1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Russell Donald Teevin 2024-05-03
1945-April-10 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Lawrence Edward Veitch 2024-05-03

Halifax NA186, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA186

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 186

Hercules XVI

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

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General March 1945 Daily Operations

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 NA187, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA187

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 187

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 8.2.47
Unit 192
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA188, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA188

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 188

Hercules XVI

Failed to return. Magdeburg, 17.1.45
Unit 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 2024-10-13
1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Addison Ireland 2024-10-13
1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Leo Joseph Penny 2024-10-13
1945-January-16 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant F W Poole 2024-10-13
1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Webb 2024-10-13

Halifax NA189, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA189

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 189

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 14.6.45
Unit 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit/1663HCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA190, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA190

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 190

Hercules XVI

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 NA191, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA191

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 191

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 15.8.47
Units 1652 Heavy Conversion Unit/1663HCU/1658HCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA192, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA192

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 192

Hercules XVI

"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 NA193, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA193

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 193

Hercules XVI

Crashed into Moray Firth, south of Helmsdalewhile on cross country, cause obscure, 4.4.45
Unit 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit/1652HCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA194, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA194

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 194

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 2.11.45
unit 158/29 MU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA195, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA195

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 195

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 5.3.47
unit 10
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA196, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA196

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 196

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 1.1.47
Units 51/Empire Air Navigation School
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA197, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA197

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 197

Hercules XVI

Failed to return, Goch 8.2.45
Unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA198, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA198

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 198

Hercules XVI

struck off Charge, 29.5.47
Unit 78/76/10/empire Air Navigation School
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA199, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA199

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 199

Hercules XVI

Served with No. 415 Squadron, RCAF, coded "6U*N". Struck off Charge, 2.11.45
Unit 466
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA200, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA200

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 200

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 14.3.47
Unit 51
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA201, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA201

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 201

Hercules XVI

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,14.9.45
Units 415/425/415
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA202, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA202

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 202

Hercules XVI

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, 23.7.46
Units 415/426/415
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA203, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA203

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 203

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 6.9.45
Unit 425
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA204, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA204

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 204

Hercules XVI

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, Chemnitz
Units 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 NA205, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA205

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 205

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 26.12.46
Unit 76/192
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA218, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA218

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 218

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 18.2.47
Unit 76/521
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA219, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA219

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 219

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 20.9.45
Unit 76/78/199
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA220, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA220

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 220

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 14.3.47
Unit 76/78
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA221, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA221

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 221

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 14.3.47
Unit 640/158
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA222, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA222

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 222

Hercules XVI

Sold For scrap 14.3.47
unit 640
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA223, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA223

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 223

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 1.11.46
Units 520/518
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA224, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA224

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 224

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 14.12.45
Uniot 518
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA225, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA225

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 225

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 5.6.47
Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA226, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA226

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 226

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 24.1.47
Unit 58
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA227, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA227

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 227

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 5.6.47
Units 520/518
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA228, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA228

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 228

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 21.8.45
Unit 10
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA229, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA229

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 229

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 17.1.47
unit 519
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA230, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA230

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 230

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 5.6.47
Unit 518/520
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA231, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA231

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 231

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 1.11.46
Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA232, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA232

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 232

Hercules XVI

Tire burst on landing at elvington, groundlooped and undercarriage collapsed 11.5.45
Units 96/Pocklington/347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA233, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA233

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 233

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 2.11.45
Units 77/158
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA234, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA234

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 234

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 21.11.45
Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA235, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA235

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 235

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 19.10.46
Unit 58
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA236, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA236

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 236

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 23.11.46
Unit 58
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA237, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA237

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 237

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Magdeburg, 17.1.45
Unit 10
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA238, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA238

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 238

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 14.9.46
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA239, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA239

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 239

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 17.8.46
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA240, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA240

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 240

Hercules XVI

Failed to return, protective patrol, Leipzig, 11.4.45
Unit 462
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA241, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA241

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 241

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return from special duty sortie, Pforzheim, 24.2.45
Unit 192
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-February-23 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Thomas George Campbell 2024-05-17

Halifax NA242, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA242

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 242

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 18.10.45
Unit 192
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA243, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA243

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 243

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 9.1.47
Empire Air Navigation School
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA244, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA244

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 244

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 23.4.45
Unit 58
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA245, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA245

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 245

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 14.10.46
Unit 58
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA246, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA246

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 246

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 15.8.47
Unit Units 521/217/517
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA247, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA247

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 247

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 24.1.47
Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA248, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA248

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 248

Hercules XVI

Missing, last known position, 46'30N, 10'28W, 2.10.45
Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA249, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA249

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 249

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 5.6.47
Units 518/520/518
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA250, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA250

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 250

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 18.12.46
Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA251, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA251

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 251

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 19.12.46
Unit ?
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA252, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA252

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 252

Hercules XVI

Struck off Chaerge, 17.8.46
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA253, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA253

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 253

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 13.2.47
Unit 111 OTU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA254, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA254

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 254

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 24.1.47
Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA255, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA255

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 255

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 10.12.46
Unit 96
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA256, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA256

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 256

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 5.3.47
Unit 517/521
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA257, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA257

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 257

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 28.1.47
units 171/Radio Warfare Establishment
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA258, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA258

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 258

Hercules XVI

SOC 10.9.46
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA259, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA259

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 259

Hercules XVI

Crashed at base of Cromer cliffs, Norfolk, and burnt, 25.6.45
Unit 199
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA260, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA260

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 260

Hercules XVI

Failed to return, Goch, 8.2.45
Unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA261, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA261

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 261

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 19.10.46
Unit 517
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA262, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA262

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 262

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 17.1.47
Unit 502/1674 Heavy Conversion Unit/111 Operational Training Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA263, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA263

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 263

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 19.10.46
Unit 347/171
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA275, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA275

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 275

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 29.11.46
Unit 10/78/199
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA276, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA276

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 276

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 30.1.47
Units Empire Air Navigation School
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA277, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA277

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 277

Hercules XVI

Overshot on landing at Jurby and ran into field, 4.9.45
Unit Empire Air Navigation school
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA278, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA278

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 278

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 14.3.47
Units 78/199/1 Bombing Development Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA279, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA279

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 279

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 14.11.46
Units Empire Air Navigation School
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA280, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA280

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 280

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 20.7.45
Unit BTU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA281, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA281

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 281

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 24.2.47
Un it 296/21 heavy glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA282, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA282

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 282

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 31.7.47
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA283, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA283

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 283

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 4.9.46
Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA284, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA284

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 284

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 25.10.45
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA285, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA285

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 285

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 13.12.46
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA286, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA286

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 286

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 26.9.45
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA287, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA287

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 287

Hercules XVI

Overshot Almaza airfield, 12.11.45
Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA288, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA288

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 288

Hercules XVI


Struck off charge, 14.3.47
unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA289, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA289

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 289

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 31.7.47
unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA290, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA290

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 290

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 22.11.46
Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA291, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA291

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 291

Hercules XVI

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, 25.5.45
Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA292, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA292

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 292

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 26.9.46
Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA293, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA293

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 293

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 26.12.46
Unit 297
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA294, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA294

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 294

Hercules XVI

Converted to 5998M on 2.7.46
Unit 297/Transport Command Development Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA295, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA295

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 295

Hercules XVI

Sold for scrap 27.3.50
Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA296, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA296

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 296

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 14.3.47
unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA297, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA297

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 297

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 18.9.46
Units 297/21 Heavy Glider conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA298, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA298

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 298

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 20.8.46
Unit 296/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA299, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA299

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 299

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 30.1.47
Unit 297/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA300, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA300

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 300

Hercules XVI

Engine failure on takeoff from Mauripur, groundlooped and undercarriage collapsed 3.12.45
Unit 297
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA301, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA301

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 301

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 1.11.46
Unit 297/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA302, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA302

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 302

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 24.1.47
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA303, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA303

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 303

Hercules XVI

Overshot Earl's Colne and hit obstruction, 23.5.45
Unit 297
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA304, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA304

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 304

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 19.10.46
Unit 296/21 Heavy glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA305, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA305

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 305

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 26.9.46
Unit 297
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA306, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA306

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 306

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 28.12.46
Units 296/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA307, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA307

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 307

Hercules XVI

Starboard inner engine failed on takeoff from Istres, France for air test- pilot raised undercarriage to avoid buildings 16.11.45
Unit 297
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA308, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA308

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 308

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 29.11.46
Unit 296/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA309, B/A/Met.Mk.III

s/n NA309

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 309

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 21.6.47
Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA310, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA310

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 310

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 22.11.46
Units 298/166
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA311, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA311

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 311

Hercules XVI

Shot down by flak near Wessel while on operation "Varsity" 24.3.45
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-March-24 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 James Ewart Bunn 2024-11-23
1945-March-24 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Delmer Ronald McGillivray 2021-09-17

Halifax NA312, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA312

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 312

Hercules XVI

Overshot on landing at marston Moor, 20.8.45
Units 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit/Operational and Refresher Trainer Unit/1665HCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA313, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA313

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 313

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
units 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit/1332 Heavy Transport Conversion Unit/1331HTCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA314, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA314

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 314

Hercules XVI

Soold for Scrap, 5.1.49
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA315, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA315

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 315

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 30.12.49
Unit 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit/1332 Heavy Transport Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA316, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA316

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 316

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 21.3.45
Unit 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA317, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA317

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 317

Hercules XVI

Collided with Tiger Moth DE473, in mid-air and crashed at Radmore, Staffs, 9.3.45
Unit 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-March-09 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer John Welden Cairns 2023-12-02

Halifax NA318, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA318

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 318

Hercules XVI

Sold for scrap 30.12.49
Uniy 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit/1332 Heavy Transport Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA319, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA319

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 319

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 14.9.45
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA320, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA320

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 320

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap, 15.1.49
Units 298/1665 heavy Conversion Unit/1332Heavy Transport Conversion Unit/1331HTCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA336, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA336

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 336

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 24.7.47
units/ Operator and Refresher Training Unit/644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA337, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA337

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 337

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Special Operation Executive, Norway, 24.4.45
Unit 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 NA338, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA338

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 338

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 14.9.45
unit Operator and Refresher Training Unit/644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA339, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA339

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 339

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 24.7.47
Units Operator and Refresher training Unit/644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA340, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA340

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 340

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge 14.9.45
Unit Operator and Refresher Training Unit/644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA341, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA341

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 341

Hercules XVI

Converted to 6207M on 19.11.46
Units Operator and Refresher trtaining Unit/298/295/297/1332 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA342, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA342

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 342

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA343, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA343

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 343

Hercules XVI

Struck Off Charge, 3.9.47
unit 298/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA344, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA344

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 344

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Special Operation Executive operations, 19.4.45
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA345, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA345

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 345

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 28.11.46
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA346, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA346

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 346

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 21.9.45
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA347, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA347

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 347

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Special Operation Executive operations, "Mdeico 6" to Alphen area of Netherlands, 13.4.45
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA348, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA348

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 348

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 24.7.47
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA349, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA349

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 349

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 24.7.47
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA350, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA350

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 350

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 28.11.46
Unit 298/1385 HTSCU/ 1333Transport Support Training Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA351, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA351

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 351

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 24.7.47
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA352, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA352

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 352

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 28.11.46
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA353, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA353

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 353

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 14.9.45
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA354, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA354

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 354

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 28.11.46
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA355, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA355

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 355

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 31.12.46
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA356, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA356

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 356

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 28.11.46
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA357, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA357

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 357

Hercules XVI

Struck by Halifax PN264 which groundlooped on approach to Raipur, 9.8.45
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA358, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA358

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 358

Hercules XVI

Damaged beyond Repair by sabotage, Qastina 25.2.46
Unit 646/644/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA359, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA359

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 359

Hercules XVI

Damaged beyond repair, by sabotage, Qastina, 25.2.46
Units 620/644/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA360, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA360

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 360

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 15.2.49
Unit 620/644/620
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA361, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA361

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 361

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Unit 620/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA362, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA362

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 362

Hercules XVI

Damaged beyond repair by sabotage, Qastina, 25.2.46
Unit 644/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA363, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA363

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 363

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 15.2.49
Units 190/644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA364, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA364

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 364

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Units 620/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA365, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA365

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 365

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Units 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA366, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA366

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 366

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA367, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA367

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 367

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Unit 620
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA368, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA368

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 368

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap, 16.12.48
Unit 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA369, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA369

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 369

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 16.12.48
Unit 21 heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA370, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA370

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 370

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap, 14.3.49
Unit ?
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA371, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA371

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 371

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 14.3.49
Unit 21 Heavy Glider conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA372, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA372

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 372

Hercules XVI

Sold For Scrap 14.3.49
Unit 620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA373, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA373

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 373

Hercules XVI

Sold For Scrap 14.3.49
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA374, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA374

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 374

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 14.3.49
Unit 620
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA375, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA375

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 375

Hercules XVI

sold for scrap 16.12.48
Units 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA376, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA376

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 376

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Unit 620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA377, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA377

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 377

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 14.3.47
Unit 190/1385 HTSCU/1 Ferry Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA378, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA378

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 378

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Unit 644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA379, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA379

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 379

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 27.11.47
Units 644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA380, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA380

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 380

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 31.12.46
Units 1 Ferry Unit/Air Command Souteast Asia/Mediterranean allied air force/ACSEA
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA392, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA392

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 392

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 6.9.45
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA393, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA393

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 393

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 28.11.46
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA394, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA394

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 394

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 28.11.46
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA395, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA395

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 395

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 24.7.47
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA396, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA396

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 396

Hercules XVI

Sold For Scrap 14.3.49
Unit ?
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA397, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA397

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 397

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 28.11.46
Units 298/1341 Flight
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA398, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA398

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 398

Hercules XVI

three engines cut on approach to Leconfield, 12.7.46
Unit 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA399, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA399

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 399

Hercules XVI

sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Unit ?
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA400, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA400

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 400

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 23.12.49
Units 290/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA401, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA401

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 401

Hercules XVI

Sold for scrap 30.12.49
Unit 298/295/297
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA402, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA402

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 402

Hercules XVI

sold for Scrap 31.12.46
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA403, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA403

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 403

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 10.1.46
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA404, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA404

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 404

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 10.1.46
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA405, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA405

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 405

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 21..9.45
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA406, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA406

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 406

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 3.9.47
unit 620/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA407, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA407

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 407

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 15.2.49
Units 646/38 group/BTTU/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA408, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA408

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 408

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 12.3.48
Units 298/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA409, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA409

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 409

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 12.12.49
Units 298/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA410, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA410

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 410

Hercules XVI

Undercarriage collapsed on landing at Bridlington after air test 16.8.46
Units 190/296/Operational and Refresher Training Unit/1385HTSCU/1333 TSTU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA412, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA412

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 412

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 27.11.47
Units 190/1385 HTSCU/1332 HTCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA413, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA413

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 413

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 16.12.48
Unit 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA414, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA414

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 414

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 30.12.49
Unit 190/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA415, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA415

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 415

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 28.11.46
Unit 1 Ferry Unit/ Mediterranean Allied air Forces/ Air Command Sout East Asia
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA416, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA416

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 416

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 28.11.46
Unit 190/1385HTSCU/1333TSTU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA417, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA417

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 417

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 28.11.46
Unit 190/1385 HTSCU/1333TSTU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA418, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA418

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 418

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap, 5.6.50
Unit ?
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA419, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA419

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 419

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 12.7.48
Unit 190/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA420, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA420

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 420

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 25.7.46
Unit 190/620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA421, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA421

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 421

Hercules XVI

Converted to 6182M on 5.11.46
Units 190/1385 HTSCU/1333TSTU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA422, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA422

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 422

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 16.12.48
Unit 21 Heavy glidfer Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA423, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA423

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 423

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 16.12.48
Unit 21 Heavy glidfer Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA424, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA424

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 424

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 26.9.46
units 620/190/620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA425, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA425

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 425

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 23.12.49
Units 190/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA426, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA426

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 426

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Units 620/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA427, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA427

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 427

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 26.9.46
Units 620/190/620/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA428, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA428

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 428

Hercules XVI

Converted to 6309M on 28.3.47
Unit 620/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA429, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA429

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 429

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Units 646/644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA430, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA430

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 430

Hercules XVI

Damaged beyond repair by sabotage, Qastina 25.2.46
Units 646/644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA431, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA431

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 431

Hercules XVI

Damaged beyond repair, Qastina, 25.2.46
Units 620/644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA444, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA444

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 444

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge 31.12.46
Units Air command South East Asia/ Mediterranean Allied Air Forces/ ACSEA
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA445, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA445

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 445

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 12.3.48
Units 646/644/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA446, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA446

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 446

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 12.3.48
Units 690/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA447, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA447

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 447

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 30.12.49
Units 620/290/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA448, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA448

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 448

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Units 620/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA449, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA449

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 449

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Units 620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA450, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA450

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 450

Hercules XVI

Groundlooped on takeoff at Wormwell, hit hedge and undercarriage collapsed, 5.8.45
Unit 620
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA451, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA451

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 451

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 1.7.47
Units 620/216 group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA452, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA452

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 452

Hercules XVI

Converted to 6310M on 28.3.47
Unit 620/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA453, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA453

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 453

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 30.12.49
Units 620/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA454, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA454

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 454

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 26.9.46
Units 620/190/620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA455, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA455

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 455

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap, 30.12.49
Unit 620/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA456, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA456

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 456

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 22.3.48
Units 620/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA457, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA457

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 457

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Units 620/190/620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA458, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA458

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 458

Hercules XVI

Converted to 6311M on 28.2.47
Units 620/190/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA459, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA459

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 459

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Unit 620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA460, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA460

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 460

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Units 620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA461, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA461

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 461

Hercules XVI

Groundlooped on takeoff from Tarrant rushton, crashed and burnt, supply dropping flight, 8.7.46
Units 620/295
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA462, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA462

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 462

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 15.2.49
Unit 216 Group/ 47
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA463, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA463

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 463

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap. 5.1.49
Unit 644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA464, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA464

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 464

Hercules XVI

Damaged beyond repair, by sabotage, Qastina, 25.2.46
Units 644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA465, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA465

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 465

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 31.12.46
Units Air Command South East Asia/Mediterranean Allied Air Forces/ACSEA
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA466, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA466

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 466

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Units 644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA467, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA467

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 467

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 15.2.49
Units 620/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA468, A.Mk.VII

s/n NA468

Rootes Securities Ltd

NA 468

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 5.1.49
Unit 644/216 Group
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA492, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA492

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 492

Hercules XVI

Crash landed at Woodbridge, on return from ops Hasselt, 13.5.44
Units 640
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-May-13 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Arthur Jeffrey Corriveau 2024-04-24

Halifax NA493, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA493

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 493

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 12.5.45
Unit 51/Handley Page
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA494, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA494

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 494

Hercules XVI

Struck of Charge, 20.3.47
Unit 192/431/434/1659 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA495, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA495

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 495

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 2.11.45
Units 78
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA496, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA496

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 496

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 11.5.45
Units 51/187
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA497, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA497

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 497

Hercules XVI

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, 29.6.45
Units 192/626/434/1659 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA498, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA498

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 498

Hercules XVI

Served with No. 431 Squadron, RCAF, coded "SE*G" in May and June 1944. Struck off Charge, 17.12.46
Units 431/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/1664HCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA499, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA499

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 499

Hercules XVI

Served with No. 431 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded SE*A. Sold for Scrap 14.3.47
Units 431/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA500, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA500

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 500

Hercules XVI


last update: 2025-March-10

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 NA501, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA501

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 501

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, bingen, 22.12.44
Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA502, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA502

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 502

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, blaineville-sur-L'Eau, 29.6.44
Unit 102
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA503, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA503

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 503

Hercules XVI

hit trees at blockleyGloucs, after diversion, crashed and burnt, 30.7.44
Unit 102
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA504, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA504

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 504

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Kiel, 17.8.44
Unit 102
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA505, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA505

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 505

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Acherers, 8.6.44
Units 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 NA506, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA506

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 506

Hercules XVI

Groundlooped on landing at Marston moor, got bogged down and undercarriage collapsed, 7.2.45
Units 10/346/1663 Heavy Conversion Unit/1652 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA507, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA507

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 507

Hercules XVI

Not delivered- possibly crashed before delivered?
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA508, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA508

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 508

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Sterkrade, 17.6.44
Unit 102/77
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA509, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA509

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 509

Hercules XVI

With No. 420 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "PT*B". Overshot Wellesbourne Mountford, and undercarriage collapsed, 23.10.44
Units 102/420
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA510, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA510

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 510

Hercules XVI

Used by No. 426 Squadron, RCAF, from Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire, coded "OW*E". Failed to Return, Cambrai, 13.6.44
Units 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

General Search for France-Crashes 39-45

General Aviation Safety Network

General Cagnicourt

General 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 NA511, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA511

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 511

Hercules XVI

Engine failure on takeoff from Full Sutton, crash landed, caught fire and burnt out, 6.6.44
Unit 102/77
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA512, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA512

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 512

Hercules XVI

Landed at Bruxelles with oil leak 28.10.44 (no further trace)
Units 102/77/347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA513, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA513

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 513

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Acquet, 19.7.44
Unit 78
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-19 KIA RAF Warrant Officer George Henry Stratford 2024-01-25

Halifax NA514, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA514

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 514

Hercules XVI


last update: 2025-March-10

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, Germany

The 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

General 16/17.06.1944 431 Squadron Halifax III NA514 Fg. Off...

General Results

General Vitz Archive of Allied Victims of Axis Murders

General 431 Crew-6 Bomber Group

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 NA515, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA515

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 515

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 24.2.47
Units 102/77/347
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-03 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Jack Ellsworth Dye 2024-10-31

Halifax NA516, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA516

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 516

Hercules XVI


last update: 2025-March-10

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

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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 NA517, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA517

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 517

Hercules XVI

With No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, c.1944/45, coded "6U*R". Sold for Scrap 14.3.47
Unit 431/432/415/190
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA518, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA518

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 518

Hercules XVI

Served with No. 425 Squadron, RCAF, coded "KW*G". Struck off charge, 11.5.45
unit 426/425/187
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Harold Magnus Romuld 2021-08-24

Halifax NA519, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA519

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 519

Hercules XVI

Ditched into the sea after three engines failed on return home from ops. Oil system froze, 28.10.44
Units 158/347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA520, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA520

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 520

Hercules XVI

Struck of Charge, 30.9.46
units 77/347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA521, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA521

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 521

Hercules XVI

Overshot landing at Hatfield, groundlooped and undercarriage collapsed, 14.3.45
units 640/462/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit/ 1663HCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA522, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA522

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 522

Hercules XVI

Force-landed at Hotham, Yorks, during air test, 5.6.44
Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA523, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA523

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 523

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 7.1.47
Units 158/297/21 Heavy glider conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA524, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA524

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 524

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Sterkrade, 17.6.44
Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-17 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Thomas Bell 2023-11-16
1944-June-17 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Arthur Robert Church Hendery 2025-01-13
1944-June-17 PoW USAAF Flying Officer J M Shaw 2025-01-13

Halifax NA525, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA525

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 525

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 27.11.45
Units 77/578/51
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA526, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA526

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 526

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 13.2.47
Units 78
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA527, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA527

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 527

Hercules XVI

Served with No. 432 (B) Squadron, RCAF at East Moor, Yorkshire. Coded "QO*N". Struck off Charge, 9.8.45
Units 432/1665 heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA528, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA528

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 528

Hercules XVI

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 NA529, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA529

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 529

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return. Fromental, 9.8.44
Units 51/578/347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA530, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA530

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 530

Hercules XVI

Crash landed at Carnabyafter port undercarriage failed, 22.2.45
Units 76/1652 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA531, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA531

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 531

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 13.12.46
Unit 77/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA543, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA543

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 543

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 15.8.47
Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA544, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA544

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 544

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scarp 14.3.47
Unit 77/1663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA545, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA545

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 545

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Sterkrade, 17.6.44
Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA546, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA546

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 546

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Bochum, 4.11.44
Unit 78/346
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA547, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA547

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 547

Hercules XVI

Failed to return, Worms, 22.2.45
Unit 78/346
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA548, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA548

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 548

Hercules XVI

Damaged on ops, Osnabruck, 2.3.45. converted to 5267M on 30.6.45
Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA549, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA549

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 549

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Bochum, 4.11.44
Unit 78/346
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA550, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA550

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 550

Hercules XVI

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.

1944-July-29 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Arthur Leonard Cameron 2024-07-31

Halifax NA551, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA551

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 551

Hercules XVI

Collied with Halifax NA546 at 2,000 feet while in the circuitat Elvington after ops, aircraft crashed at Dunnington and burnt, 13.7.44
Unit 78/346
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA552, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA552

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 552

Hercules XVI

Served with No. 434 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "WL*U". sold for Scarp, 14.3.47
Units 432/434/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA553, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA553

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 553

Hercules XVI

Converted to 5633M on 7.9.45
Unit 76/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit/ Empire Air Navigation School
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA554, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA554

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 554

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 14.9.46
Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA555, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA555

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 555

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Scholven (day), 7.10.44
Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA556, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA556

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 556

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 18.9.46
Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA557, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA557

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 557

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Sterkrade, 21.11.44
Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA558, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA558

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 558

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Bochum, 4.11.44
Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA559, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA559

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 559

Hercules XVI

Damaged beyond repair at Saltby, 27.6.45
Unit 102/1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA560, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA560

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 560

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Les Landes, 10.8.44
unit 640
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-09 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Frederick Charles Eastley 2023-10-26

Halifax NA561, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA561

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 561

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 13.12.46
Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA562, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA562

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 562

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 8.8.46
Unit 346/1663 Heavy Conversion Unit/1652HCU/1658HCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA563, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA563

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 563

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Dijon, 11.8.44
Unit 640
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA564, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA564

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 564

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 26.10.46
Unit 102/346
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA565, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA565

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 565

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 27.9.45
Unit 102/1665 heacvy Conversion Unit/Operational and Refresher Training Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA566, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA566

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 566

Hercules XVI

Groundlooped on landing at Carnaby, undercarriage collapsed and aircraft caught fire, 5.3.45
unit 158/1652 Heavy Conversion Unit/1663HCU/1658HCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA567, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA567

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 567

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Bochum, 9.10.44, crashed at Arpath, Germany
Units 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 NA568, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA568

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 568

Hercules XVI

Failed to return, Gelsenkirchen, 12.9.44
Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-September-11 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer John Callingham 2023-12-04

Halifax NA569, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA569

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 569

Hercules XVI

Groundlooped on landing at Burn, undercarriage collapsed and port outer engine caught fire, 23.10.44
Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA570, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA570

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 570

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 30.9.46
Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA571, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA571

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 571

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 2.11.45
Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA572, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA572

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 572

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Magdeburg, 16.1.45
Unit 77/102/347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA573, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA573

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 573

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 15.8.47
Unit 640/1658 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA574, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA574

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 574

Hercules XVI

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, 26.1.45
Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-January-26 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Irving Lawrence Johns 2021-08-24

Halifax NA575, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA575

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 575

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 30.1.47
Units 76/21 Heavy glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA576, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA576

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 576

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 13.2.47
Unit 346/347/21 Heavy Glider conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA577, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA577

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 577

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 14.3.47
Unit 346/347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA578, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA578

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 578

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Wassen, 25.8.44
Unit 640
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-25 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James Douglas Duffin 2024-10-29

Halifax NA579, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA579

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 579

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 24.9.46
Units 420/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA580, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA580

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 580

Hercules XVI

Served with No. 420 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded PT*K. Groundlooped on three engined landing at Tangmere, and undercarriage collapsed, 8.8.44
Unit 425/420
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA581, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA581

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 581

Hercules XVI

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, 2.8.44
Unit 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 NA582, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA582

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 582

Hercules XVI

Served with No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded 6U*D. Undershot East Moor after ops, and crashed two miles east of Stillington 15.10.44
Unit 420/415
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA583, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA583

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 583

Hercules XVI

Served with No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded 6U*F. Failed to Return, Dusseldorf, 2.11.44
Units 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 NA584, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA584

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 584

Hercules XVI

Attacked by intruder on return from ops, Kamen, 4.3.45, force landed at Carnaby.
Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-March-04 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Thomas Maltby 2021-08-24

Halifax NA585, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA585

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 585

Hercules XVI

A hung-up 1000lb bomb exploded on landing at elvingtonafter ops, Octeville, 10.9.44
Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA586, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA586

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 586

Hercules XVI

Sold for scrap 14.3.47
Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA587, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA587

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 587

Hercules XVI

Converted to 5225M on 28.4.45
Unit 419/1666 heavy Conversion Unit/1664HCU/Aeroplane and Armament experimental Establishment
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA599, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA599

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 599

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 16.12.46
Unit 102
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA600, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA600

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 600

Hercules XVI

Served with No. 415 Squadron, RCAF, coded "6U*U". Struck off Charge, 25.1.47
Unit 415/187
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA601, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA601

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 601

Hercules XVI

Groundlooped at takeoff at Marston Moor and undercarriage collapsed, 25.9.44
Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA602, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA602

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 602

Hercules XVI

Failed to return, Hannover, 5.1.45
Unit 102
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA603, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA603

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 603

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Magdeburg, 17.1.45
Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-January-17 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer F J Fitzgerald 2023-08-22

Halifax NA604, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA604

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 604

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Russelheim, 13.8.44
Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-13 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Patrick Birmingham 2025-01-20
1944-August-13 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Joseph Pearson 2025-01-20

Halifax NA605, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA605

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 605

Hercules XVI

Loss of power on takeoff, overshot onto railway line, ops, 9.10.44
Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA606, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA606

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 606

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return. nordstern, 11.9.44
Unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA607, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA607

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 607

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 9.11.46
Unit 415/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA608, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA608

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 608

Hercules XVI

Converted to 5227M on 20.4.45
Unit 415/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA609, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA609

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 609

Hercules XVI

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 NA610, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA610

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 610

Hercules XVI

With No. 415 (B) Squadron, RCAF, c.1944/45, coded "6U*B" Struck off Charge, 10.9.46
Unit 420/415.
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA611, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA611

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 611

Hercules XVI

Served with No. 415 Squadron, RCAF, coded "6U*T". Groundlooped on takeoff from East Moor for ops, crashed and burst into flames, 14.1.45
Unit 420/415
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA612, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA612

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 612

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 4.8.45
Unit 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

General Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database

General Aviation Safety Network

General Aircraft accidents in Yorkshire

General Crew of Halifax NA612 I War Imperial War Museums

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 NA613, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA613

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 613

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 6.1.47
Unit 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA614, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA614

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 614

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 14.3.47
Unit 298/644/296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA615, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA615

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 615

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 7.10.46
Unit 346/102
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA616, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA616

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 616

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Venlo (day), 4.9.44
Unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA617, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA617

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 617

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 13.7.45
Unit 578/1652 heavy Conversion Unit/1658HCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA618, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA618

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 618

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Reisholz, 21.2.45
Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-February-21 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant J A Cahill 2023-08-21

Halifax NA619, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA619

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 619

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 9.12.46
Units 102/462/1663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA620, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA620

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 620

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 5.3.47
Unit 346
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA621, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA621

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 621

Hercules XVI

Groundlooped on takeoff at rufforth, and hit halifax LK785, 10.5.45
Units 462/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit/1663HCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA622, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA622

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 622

Hercules XVI

Groundlooped on landing at Rufforth, port wing hit ground and undercarriage collapsed, 4.4.45
Units 462/1658 Heavy conversion Unit/1663HCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA623, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA623

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 623

Hercules XVI

Force landed at Wold Dyke Farm, Middleton-On-the-Woods, Yorks, ex ops, Essen 29.11.44
Unit 76
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA624, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA624

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 624

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge 11.9.46
Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA625, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA625

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 625

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 20.3.47
Unit 51/187
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA626, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA626

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 626

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 15.8.47
Unit 51
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA627, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA627

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 627

Hercules XVI

Overshot Melbourne and undercarriage collapsed after hydraulic failure on return from ops, 22.12.44
Unit 10
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA628, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA628

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 628

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 1.11.46
Unit 190/Thorney Island
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA629, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA629

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 629

Hercules XVI

Ditched into North Sea on return from ops, Kiel, 16.9.44
Unit 420
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA630, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA630

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 630

Hercules XVI

Served with No. 420 Squadron, RCAF, coded "PT*N". Struck off Charge, 15.8.47
Unit 425/1659 Heavy conversion Unit/1664HCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA631, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA631

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 631

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 7.10.46
unit 420/187
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA632, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA632

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 632

Hercules XVI

Served with No. 420 Squadron, RCAF, coded "PT*B". Overshot on landing at Rufforth, hit totem pole and undercarriage collapsed, 15.1.45
Unit 420/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA633, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA633

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 633

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 28.1.47
Units 425/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA634, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA634

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 634

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 15.8.47
Unit 425/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/ 1664HCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA635, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA635

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 635

Hercules XVI

Converted to 6329M on 13.5.47
Units 644/1 Ferry Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA636, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA636

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 636

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 26.11.46
Unit 644/298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA637, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA637

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 637

Hercules XVI

Struck off Chage, 26.9.46
Units 296/
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA638, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA638

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 638

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 26.9.46
Units 296/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA639, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA639

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 639

Hercules XVI

Ran into soft ground while taxiing at Gardermoen, Norway and damaged beyond repair, 11.5.45
Units 298/297
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA640, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA640

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 640

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 14.3.47
Unit 297/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA641, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA641

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 641

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 26.10.46
Units 298/21 heavy Glider Conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA642, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA642

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 642

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 11.4.46
Units 1 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit/Air Command South East Asia/Middle East/ACSEA/1577 Flight
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA643, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA643

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 643

Hercules XVI

Converted to 5287M on 26.2.46
Units 297/Operational and Refreshed Training Unit/
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA644, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA644

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 644

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 26.12.46
Units 2 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit/ Air command South East Asia/Middle East/ACSEA/Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA656, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA656

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 656

Hercules XVI

Crashed on Airfield boundary at Honiley, after being diverted on one engine, burnt, 23.2.45
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA657, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA657

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 657

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 14.3.47
Unit 297
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA658, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA658

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 658

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 31.7.47
unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA659, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA659

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 659

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 3.4.47
unit 644/297/1 Ferry Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA660, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA660

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 660

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, special Operations Executive, 3.4.45
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-April-03 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Elden Fleetwood Carlisle 2024-01-04

Halifax NA661, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA661

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 661

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 14.3.47
Unit 190
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA662, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA662

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 662

Hercules XVI

Converted to 5780M on 11.1.46
Unit 644/Operational and Refresher Training Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA663, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA663

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 663

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 31.7.47
unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA664, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA664

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 664

Hercules XVI

Crashed and burnt at South Farm, Smallwood, Spettisburg, Dorset, after stalling downwind in circuit, ex ops, 27.3.45
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-March-27 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Seaton George Redknap 2021-09-30

Halifax NA665, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA665

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 665

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 10.8.45
Unit 644/298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA666, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA666

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 666

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 26.9.45
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA667, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA667

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 667

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 26.12.46
Unit 298
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA668, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA668

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 668

Hercules XVI

Undershot Earls Coln and hit tree, 28.2.45
Unit 298/296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA669, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA669

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 669

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return from "Operation Varsity" 24.3.45
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA670, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA670

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 670

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, worms, 22.2.45
Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA671, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA671

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 671

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 31.12.46
Unit 578
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA672, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA672

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 672

Hercules XVI

Failed to return, special Operations Executive, "Tablejam 353" to Lolland area of Denmark, 27.4.45
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA673, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA673

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 673

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 31.1.47
Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA674, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA674

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 674

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return from "Window" sortie, 10.12.44
Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA675, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA675

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 675

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 31.12.46
Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA676, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA676

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 676

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 11.10.45
Unit 644
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA677, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA677

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 677

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 23.7.46
Unit 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA678, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA678

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 678

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 15.8.47
Unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA679, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA679

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 679

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 28.11.46
Unit 246
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA680, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA680

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 680

Hercules XVI

Shot down by Cranwell by intruder, ex ops, 3.3.45
Unit 347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA681, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA681

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 681

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, Homberg, crashed and burnt, 15.3.45
Unit 102/347
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA682, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA682

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 682

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 24.2.47
Unit Royal Aircraft Establishment/DeHavilland
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA683, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA683

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 683

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 5..5.45
Unit 246
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA684, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA684

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 684

Hercules XVI

Sold to College as G-AJPG, 31.5.47
Unit Mediterranean/Middle east/College of Aeronautics
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA685, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA685

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 685

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 14.3.47
Unit 190
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA686, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA686

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 686

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 26.12.46
Unit ?
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA687, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA687

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 687

Hercules XVI

Failed to Return, from "Window" sortie, 7.1.45
Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05
1945-January-06 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Charles Donald Mison 2023-08-07

Halifax NA688, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA688

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 688

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 14.3.47
Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA689, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA689

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 689

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 28.12.46
Unit Air Transport Tactical Development Unit/ 29 Maintenance Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA690, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA690

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 690

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 9.12.46
Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA691, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA691

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 691

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 17.1.47
Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA692, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA692

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 692

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 31.5.45
Unit 1652 Heavy conversion Unit/1663HCU
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA693, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA693

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 693

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 22.8.46
Unit 520/518
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA694, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA694

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 694

Hercules XVI

Belly-landed at North Creake after ops, 4.12.44
Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA695, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA695

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 695

Hercules XVI

Damaged 4.12.44 while on ops, repaired but Struck off charge after war.
Unit 171
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA696, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA696

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 696

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 14.3.47
Unit 190
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA697, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA697

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 697

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 20.3.47
Unit 296/21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA698, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA698

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 698

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 11.7.46
Unit 296/21 Heavy glider conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA699, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA699

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 699

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 22.11.46
Unit 298/1665 Heavy conversion Unit/296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA700, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA700

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 700

Hercules XVI

Struck off charge, 22.11.46
Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA701, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA701

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 701

Hercules XVI

Struck off Charge, 31.5.45
Unit 296
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA702, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA702

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 702

Hercules XVI

Collieded with Wellington LP906of 81 OTU, over Warrington, bucks, 3.6.45
Unit 296/Operational and Refresher Training Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA703, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA703

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 703

Hercules XVI

Overshot on landing at Saltby, 9.7.45
Unit 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05

Halifax NA704, B/A.Mk.III

s/n NA704

Fairey Aviation Co Ltd

NA 704

Hercules XVI

Sold for Scrap 14.3.47
Unit 297/Operational and Refresher Training Unit/ 1385HTSCU/1 Ferry Unit
last update: 2025-February-05