Halifax JB931 B/GR.Mk.II - Bombing - 1943-05-14 to 1943-05-14
Squadron: (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1943-05-14
Completion Date: 1943-05-14
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City:
Target Specific:
Base: Leeming
Take Off Time:
Squadron Code: EQ O
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Hoofdplaat, 5 km east of Breskens, Zeeland Holland.
Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable

Took off from Leeming at 23:47 in Halifax Mk II (Sqn code EQ-O Bomber Command) on an operation to Bochum Germany.

Shot down by a night fighter and crashed at Hoofdplaat, 5 km east of Breskens, Zeeland Holland.

Killed Includes Campbell: Pilot Officer Lloyd Albert Stinson RCAF J/17695 KIA Vlissingen Northern Cemetery Flushing Holland Row E. Grave 1. Sergeant John Mclaren Harrison RCAF R/70275 KIA Vlissingen Northern Cemetery Flushing Holland Row E. Grave 2. Pilot Officer Albert Elliott Horne RAAF KIA Vlissingen Northern Cemetery Flushing Holland Row D. Grave 32.

POWs F/Lt Albert William Thompson RCAF J/12987 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria. Pilot Officer Maurice Henry Joseph Hammill RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria. Sergeant Arthur Costan Ross RAF POW Stalag 357 Kopernikus.

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