Squadron: 405 (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1942-07-26
Completion Date: 1942-07-27
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Hamburg Germany
Target Specific:
Base: Pocklington
Take Off Time: 23.00
Squadron Code: LQ L
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Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
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No. 405 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*L". Shot down over Hamburg on 27 July 1942, Sergeant John Albert KNOX (575307); Flight Engi; Flight Sergeant John Victor POTTER (R/70841); Air Observer; Sergeant Robert Bruce PRENTICE (R/105300) ; Air Gunner; Sergeant William SMITH (1382139) Pilot; Flight Sergeant Thomas Austin WITHERS (R/79045); Air Gunner; Sergeant Cyril WOOD (1058548) Wireless Op. Prisoner of War for Halifax II W1230 Sergeant Richard Alexander MYERS (R/65987)
6 Group Unavailable
No. 405 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*L". Shot down over Hamburg on 27 July 1942, Sergeant John Albert KNOX (575307); Flight Engi; Flight Sergeant John Victor POTTER (R/70841); Air Observer; Sergeant Robert Bruce PRENTICE (R/105300) ; Air Gunner; Sergeant William SMITH (1382139) Pilot; Flight Sergeant Thomas Austin WITHERS (R/79045); Air Gunner; Sergeant Cyril WOOD (1058548) Wireless Op. Prisoner of War for Halifax II W1230 Sergeant Richard Alexander MYERS (R/65987)
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