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: 01.27
Squadron Code: SE X
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: near Gosselies
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 LK 884 Shot down by a night-fighter (Lt Georg Fengler 1V. near Gosselies during a night raid against Haine St Pierre, Belgium. FL. R.F. Mead, F/Os L.C.E.Webley, A. Girolami, P/Os J.A. Ouimet, J.V. Gravel, Sergeant D.V. Guttridge (RAF), and one other of the crew, not Canadian, were killed.
