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Halifax NP750 No. 408 Squadron, RCAF, coded "EQ*F". Lost on raid to Bochum on 4/5 November 1944.
Claim by Hptm Herman Greiner Stab IV/NJG1 - West of Essen at 19:35. Attacked by a Fw190 about 19:35 at 17,000ft just before bombing run, setting the port inner engine on fire, rear gunner baled out. Aircraft followed out of the Ruhr (between Dusseldorf & Koln) and attacked by two unidentified fighters, again attacked over Belgium by an Me 210 and an Me 109. Crashed landed at Base 58 in Brussels and wrecked (Source: Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 5 - Theo Boiten)
Rear Gunner: R/218193 Flt Sergeant Hugh David Hardy - PoW/Stalag Luft 7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia/Stalag 3A Luckenwalde/PoW Number 1191.
The remaining members of the crew went on to continue their tour of operations.
Pilot: J/25966 Plt Off H D Sokoloff RCAF, Flight Engineer: 1567674, Flt Sergeant W J Richardson, Navigator: J/36850 Fg Off J H Sargent RCAF, Bomb Aimer: R/192680 Flt Sergeant AG Staples RCAF, Wireless Operator: R/162377 WOII JA M Fraser RCAF, Mid Upper Gunner: R/204992 Flt Sergeant L S Swindells RCAF.