Halifax HR849 B/GR.Mk.II - Bombing Hamburg Germany - 1943-08-02 to 1943-08-03
Squadron: 405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1943-08-02
Completion Date: 1943-08-03
Mission: Bombing
Operation: Battle of Hamburg
Target City: Hamburg Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Gransden Lodge
Take Off Time: 23.02
Squadron Code: LQ-G
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Crash City: Germany
Crash Specifics: near Bremen
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: flak
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6 Bomber Group August 2/3, 1943

54 Halifaxes from 408, 419, 427 and 428 Squadrons were joined by 19 Wellingtons from 429 and 432 Squadrons on an attack at Hamburg. The crews were over the target at between 15,000 and 20,000 feet, releasing 40,000 lbs of high explosives and 110,000 lbs of incendiaries. This attack was a failure due to severe icing and thunder storms to and from the target. Richard Koval (6bombergroup.ca)

405 Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus) RAF Gransden Lodge. Halifax BII aircraft #HR 849 LQ-E was shot down by flak over Bremen, Germany while on an operation to Hamburg, Germany. The entire crew was lost on this, their 5th operation and the 10th bomber lost on this 4th raid against targets in Hamburg

FS WJ Crozier (RCAF), Sergeant T Brownless (RAFVR), Sergeant H Gardner (RAFVR), Sergeant AF Gregory (RAFVR), Sergeant SJ Passey (RAFVR), Sergeant ST Pitt (RAFVR) and Sergeant D Rowbotham (RAF) were all killed in action

The Battle of Hamburg, Allied Bomber Forces Against a German City in 1943 by Martin Middlebrook, Appendix 4 page 343

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