Halifax BB207 B.Mk.II - Bombing Flensburg Germany - 1942-10-01 to 1942-10-01
Squadron: 10 (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1942-10-01
Completion Date: 1942-10-01
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Flensburg Germany
Target Specific: shipyards and U-boat pens
Base: RAF Melborne
Take Off Time: 17:56:00
Squadron Code: ZA-M
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Germany
Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason:
Flak Battery: unspecified
Enemy Claim: unspecified
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable

10 Squadron (Rem acu tangere) RAF Melborne. Halifax B Mk II aircraft BB 207 ZA-M was lost over Flensburg, Germany during operations against the shipyards and U-boat pens located there. The cause of loss of this aircraft and all seven crew members was not found, although the Nachtjagd Combat Archive from the night of this operation by Theo Boiten lists an "unidentified Halifax" coned by search lights and shot down by flak

Flight Sergeant Alexander McKenzie Mowbray (RCAF), Sergeant Stanley Childs Carter (RAFVR), Sergeant Kenneth Raymond Curran (RAFVR), Flying Officer John Leslie Jones (RAFVR), Sergeant Maurice Alan Pickering (RAFVR), Sergeant Robert Charles Prior (RAF) and Sergeant Richard Quick Stevens (RAFVR) were all killed in action

Nachtjagd Combat Archive, The Early Years Part 3, 30 May - 31 December 1942 by Theo Boiten

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