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: Croft
Take Off Time: 01.16
Squadron Code: SE T
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Zwevezele, West-Vlaanderen
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 MZ 521 Shot down by night-fighter (Lt Friedrich Potthast 1. Five Canadians, WOs MacStoker, Cassey, Flying Officer Schubert, Sergeants Walker, and Bull were either taken Prisoner of War or were Evaders. One of the crew, not Canadian, missing believed killed.
