Halifax W7710 B.Mk.II - Bombing Flensburg Germany - 1942-10-01 to 1942-10-01
Squadron: 405 (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1942-10-01
Completion Date: 1942-10-01
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Flensburg Germany
Target Specific:
Base: Topcliffe
Take Off Time: 17.35
Squadron Code: LQ R
Radio Code:
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Return Time:
Crash City: Liehuus, 6 km NNW of Flensburg
Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
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Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable

Served with No. 405 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*R". Named "Ruhr Valley Express" late 1942. Photo of this aircraft on page 90 of "RCAF Squadrons and Aircraft". Lost on 1/2 October 1942, on mission to Flensburg, from Topcliffe. Crashed at Liehuus, 6 km NNW of Flensburg, very close to Germany's border with Denmark

Flight Sergeant Albert Martin CARTER (R/91412) Wireless Op; Sergeant Ben Bales COPELAND (R/79564);Pilot Officer Arthur Monson GREEN (J/16009) Air Gunner; Pilot Officer John Colwell KITCHEN (J/15997) Air Observer; Flight Sergeant William Granger McCRON (R/91332) Air Gunner; Flying Officer Edward Carl OLSEN (J/8777) Pilot; Flight Sergeant Aaron Joseph Ronnie VINEBERG (1066449). All Killed

There were three 405 Sqdn. aircraft lost over this target on this date,

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