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: 23.12
Squadron Code: LQ P
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Elbe River seven miles west of Hamburg
Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason:
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus). Halifax aircraft W 1186 was hit by flak then blew up and fell in the Elbe River seven miles west of the target Hamburg, Germany Sergeant Joseph Daniel CREEDE (R/83409) Air Gunner; Pilot Officer Norman Leslie LAING (J/15432); Sergeant John Walter MACAULAY (R/73010) Wireless Op; Flight Sergeant Henry Maximilian SLEZAK (R/80198); Pilot Officer Douglas Alfred STREET (J/9585) Wireless Op; Flight Sergeant Arthur Douglas SWANSBURG (R/76207); Flight Sergeant Gerald Robert TITUS (R/86352); Sergeant Kenneth Storey WATSON (574343). All Killed
6 Group Unavailable
405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus). Halifax aircraft W 1186 was hit by flak then blew up and fell in the Elbe River seven miles west of the target Hamburg, Germany Sergeant Joseph Daniel CREEDE (R/83409) Air Gunner; Pilot Officer Norman Leslie LAING (J/15432); Sergeant John Walter MACAULAY (R/73010) Wireless Op; Flight Sergeant Henry Maximilian SLEZAK (R/80198); Pilot Officer Douglas Alfred STREET (J/9585) Wireless Op; Flight Sergeant Arthur Douglas SWANSBURG (R/76207); Flight Sergeant Gerald Robert TITUS (R/86352); Sergeant Kenneth Storey WATSON (574343). All Killed
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