Squadron:426 (B) Sqn (RCAF)

Start Date:1944-10-09

Completion Date:1944-10-10

Mission:Bombing

Operation:unspecified

Target City:Bochum Germany

Target Specific:

Base:RAF Linton-on-Ouse

Take Off Time:17:04:00

Squadron Code:OWC

Radio Code:

Return Base:RAF Linton-on-Ouse

Return Time:22:49:00

Crash City:

Crash Specifics:

Crash Latitude:0.000000000

Crash Longitude:0.000000000

Crash Reason:flak

Flak Battery:unspecified

Enemy Claim:

6 Bomber Group October 9/10, 1944

179 Halifaxes from 408, 415, 420, 424, 425, 426,427, 429, 431, 432, 433, and 434 squadrons were joined by 30 Lancasters from 419 and 428 squadrons, on an attack at Bochum. The crews were over the target between 17,000 and 20,000 feet, releasing 928,000 lbs of high explosives and 544,000 lbs of incendiaries. The target was cloud covered and according to reports the attack was scattered. Richard Koval (6bombergroup.ca)

Events

426 Thunderbird Squadron (On Wings of Fire) RAF Linton-on-Ouse. Halifax BVII aircraft LW 199 OW-C was hit by flak over the target during an operation against targets in Bochum, Germany. The aircraft returned to base safely but Mid-Upper Air Gunner Pilot Officer Robert Burns Scott (RCAF) had been wounded by the flak and died from head injuries the next morning as he was being transferred from the Military Hospital at York to another hospital at Sheffield, England

Flight Lieutenant Eric Thomas Garrett (RCAF), Flying Officer John Leslie Atkinson (RCAF), Flying Officer Kenneth George Parker (RCAF), Pilot Officer William Gordon Miller (RCAF), Sergeant Eric Stanley Jerome (RAFVR) and Pilot Officer Joseph Granville Barber (RAFVR) all survived, safe

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