Squadron: (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1944-05-09
Completion Date: 1944-05-09
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Haine-Saint-Pierre Belgium
Target Specific:
Base: East Moor
Take Off Time: 01.30
Squadron Code: QO G
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Grand Reng, Hainaut
Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
123 aircraft - 62 Halifaxes, 53 Lancasters, 8 Mosquitoes « of 6 and 8 Groups. 6 Halifaxes and 3 Lancasters lost. Severe damage was caused to half of the railway yards and to locomotive sheds.
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Halifax aircraft LW 594 missing from a night trip to Haine St Pierre, France. F/Os W.H.Parkinson, S.A. Hawkins and Pilot Officer H. Ibbotson (RAF) were killed. Three Canadians, Flying Officer A.I. Raetzens, Sergeants L.S. O'Leary, and K.A. Banks taken Prisoners of War. One of the crew, not Canadian, missing believed killed. Shot down by a night-fighter (Oblt Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer Stab 1V.
