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425 Alouette Squadron (I shall pluck you) RAF Tholthorpe. Halifax BIII aircraft MZ 860 KW-E missing during operations over Hannover, Germany, shot down by night fighter pilot Hptm Werner Baake of Stab 1/NJG 1. The Halifax crashed 1 km east of Stolzenau, Lower Saxony, on the bank of the Weser River, Germany
Flight Sergeant JTR Cauchy (RCAF), Pilot Officer RRM Cantin (RCAF), Flight Sergeant JA Cote (RCAF), Flight Lieutenant JJP L'Esperance (RCAF), and Sergeant EJJ Faulkner (RCAF) all survived to be taken as Prisoners Of War
Pilot Officer JYJC Lamarre MiD (RCAF) and Pilot Officer JAF Piche (RCAF) also survived to reach the ground and were captured separately. Both of these airmen Prisoners of War were later murdered by German Gestapo or SS members
There were two more 425 Squadron Halifax III aircraft lost on this operation. Please see aircraft serials NR 178 KW-J and NP 999 KW-W for additional information on these aircraft and crews
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05/06 011945 425 (Alouette) Squadron, RCAF Halifax III MZ860...
425 Squadron Nose Art - Research done by Clarence Simonsen I RCAF...
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