Squadron: 405 (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1942-06-08
Completion Date: 1942-06-09
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Essen Germany
Target Specific:
Base: Pocklington
Take Off Time: 22.55
Squadron Code: LQ D
Radio Code:
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Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
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Enemy Claim:
ESSEN
{{webimage,wardiaries.jpg,float:right;width:150px;,Book no longer in print}}170 aircraft - 92 Wellingtons, 42 Halifaxes, 14 Stirlings, 13 Lancasters, 9 Hampdens.
19 aircraft - 7 Wellingtons, 7 Halifaxes, 3 Lancasters, 1 Hampden, 1 Stirling - lost.
Yet again, this target was not identified accurately and bombing was scattered over a wide ares. Essen suffered further light housing damage, 13 people killed and 42 injured.
Minor operations: 19 aircraft to Dieppe, 6 Blenheim Intruders, 1 Stirling on a leaflet flight. No losses.The Bomber Command War Diaries, Middlebrook and Everitt
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405 Squadron, Halifax aircraft W 1111 was carrying bombs, camera, and leaflets and failed to return from a night raid against Essen, Germany, 9 June 1942.. Flight Sergeant Thomas Robert Manard CATTLE (R/53364); Flight Sergeant Joseph FLEMING (936192); Sergeant Reginald Douglas HOLLAND (1167380); Sergeant Eric Leslie JACKMAN (1180364); Flight Sergeant George Raymond ONTGOMERY (R/69146); Pilot Officer David Gordon MORRIS (J/15342); Warrant Officer Class II, William Lloyd PLATT (R/69669)
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