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624 (Special Duties) Squadron (Du Noctuque Caeloque) RAF, Blida, Algeria. Seventeen crew had been briefed for an SOE mission to southern France and Halifax B Mk II aircraft BB 386 was the first to take-off. The Halifax immediately encountered a sudden heavy rain storm as it attempted to climb and crashed five miles north-west of the aerodrome at Blida, Algeria, with a likely engine failure factoring into the loss
Pilot Officer Harry Alexander Edward Gordon Smith (RCAF), Flying Officer Gordon Mundell (RCAF), Flying Officer Francis Ira Elliott (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 2 George Thomas Jackson (RCAF), Flight Sergeant Roy Wesley Moller (RCAF), Sergeant Donald Garforth Browne (RAFVR) and Sergeant William Dennis Hazeldine (RAFVR) were all killed in action
Flights of the Forgotten, Special Duties Operations in World War Two by K A Merrick page 107
Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database
Squadron losses page 1 I 624 Squadron
