Halifax NP949 B.Mk.III - Bombing Castrop-Rauxel Germany - 1944-11-21 to 1944-11-21
Squadron: (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1944-11-21
Completion Date: 1944-11-21
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Castrop-Rauxel Germany
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Base: Skipton-on-Swale
Take Off Time: 15.57
Squadron Code: BM R
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Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
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433 Porcupine Squadron (Qui Sy Frotte Sy Pique) RAF Skipton-on-Swale, Halifax III aircraft NP 949 BM-R was shot down 15 miles north-east of Gelsenkirchen near Hultern, Germany during a raid against Castrop-Rauxel, in the Ruhr Valley, Germany

Claim by Hptm Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer Stab/NJG4 - Recklinghausen/Gelsenkirchen (KP): 4,800m at 19:02. (Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 5 - Theo Boiten)

Fg Off Guy RCAF was captured on 21 November 1944 at Gelsenkirchen

Fg Off McLennan was captured on 21 November 1944 at Gelsenkirchen

Plt Off McLachlan RCAF was captured on 23 November 1944 at Essen

Sergeant Lockey, Plt Off Ramey RCAF and Fg Off Love RCAF were initially buried in Gelsenkirchen-Huellen East Cemetery Field 45K Communal Grave 99. Reinterred 12 May 1947

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