Squadron: 419 (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1943-04-28
Completion Date: 1943-04-28
Mission: Minelaying
Operation: Battle of the Ruhr
Target City: Skaggerak Strait Norway
Target Specific:
Base: Middleton St. George
Take Off Time: 20.42
Squadron Code: VR Q
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Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
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419 Moose Squadron (Moosa Aswayita) RAF Middleton St George. Halifax BII aircraft JB 929 VR-Q was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Werner Speidel of the 10/NJG 3, flying a Ju 88 from Aalborg-West airfield in Denmark, while laying mines in the Skaggerak Strait, Norway. The bomber crashed at sea, 50 km northwest of Hjørring, Nordjylland, Denmark
Warrant Officer Class 2 GKA Smallwood (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 2 JG Acker (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 2 JM O'Connor (RCAF), Sergeant JA Allen (RCAF), FS RR Gourde (RCAF), FS LJ Murphy (RCAF), and FS JW Carley (RCAF) were all missing, presumed killed. They have no known graves and are all commemorated on the Runnymede War Memorial
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