Halifax BB236 B.Mk.II - Bombing Flensburg Germany - 1942-10-01 to 1942-10-01
Squadron: 78 (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1942-10-01
Completion Date: 1942-10-01
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Flensburg Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Linton-on-Ouse
Take Off Time: 17:59:00
Squadron Code: EY-B
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Germany
Crash Specifics: Am Friedenshugel, Flensburg
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: flak
Flak Battery: coned by search lights of Reserve Flakscheinewerfer Abteilung 609 (Werfer 15) and hit by the guns of
Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
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78 Squadron RAF (Nemo non paratus) RAF Linton-on Ouse. Halifax B MkII aircraft BB 236 EY-B was coned by the search lights of Reserve Flakscheinewerfer Abteilung 609 (Werfer 15) and hit by the guns of Leichte Marine Flakzug Murwik, 1-4/Reserve Flak Abteilung 306 and 1-3/Reserve Flak Abteilung 755. The Halifax crashed at Am Friedenshugel, Flensburg, Germany with the loss of the entire crew

Flying Officer John Hammond Carrick (RCAF), Flying Officer Gordon Menhennick Gillies (RCAF), Sergeant Norman Rex Jones (RAAF), Sergeant Ernest Henry Tytherleigh (RAFVR) were all killed in action. Initially buried in a cemetery near the crash site. They were later exhumed and reburied in the Kiel War Cemetery, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Sergeant Edwin Walter Farr (RAFVR), Sergeant George Erenest Swift (RAFVR) and Sergeant Joseph Cunningham (RAFVR) survived the crash and were taken as Prisoners of War

Nachtjagd Combat Archive, The Early Years Part 3, 30 May - 31 December 1942 by Theo Boiten, page 101

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