Halifax LW593 B/A.Mk.III - Bombing Berlin Germany - 1944-03-24 to 1944-03-24
Squadron: 432 (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1944-03-24
Completion Date: 1944-03-24
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Berlin Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF East Moor
Take Off Time: 19:08
Squadron Code: QO-O
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Germany
Crash Specifics: Hohnstedt, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim: Oberleutnant Heinrich Schneider of the 10/NJG 5
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable

432 Leaside Squadron (Saevitir Ad Lucem) RAF East Moor. Halifax BIII aircraft LW 593 QO-O failed to return from an operation against targets in Berlin, Germany. The Halifax was damaged in an attack by Oberleutnant Heinrich Schneider of the 10/NJG 5 flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Erfurt-Bindersleben airfield, Germany and was then hit by a heavy Flak barrage before it crashed at Hohnstedt, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

Pilot Officer L Bandle (RCAF), Pilot Officer AF De Dauw (RCAF) and Sergeant WCW King (RAFVR) were killed in action

Flying Officer A Small (RCAF) Pilot Officer RC Elvin (RCAF), Pilot Officer JA McIntosh DFC (RCAF) and Pilot Officer CM Schell (RCAF) survived and were all taken as Prisoners of War

Footprints on the Sands of Time, RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of War in Germany 1939-45 by Oliver Clutton-Brock pages 288, 358,398,404

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