Halifax LW435 B/A.Mk.III - Bombing Berlin Germany - 1944-03-24 to 1944-03-25
Squadron: 424 (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1944-03-24
Completion Date: 1944-03-25
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Berlin Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Skipton-on-Swale
Take Off Time: 18:32
Squadron Code: QB-R
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Germany
Crash Specifics: between Olfen and Datteln
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable

6 Bomber Group March 24/25, 1944

23 Lancasters from 408 and 426 Squadrons were joined by 90 Halifaxes from 420, 424, 425, 427, 429, 432, and 433 Squadrons on an attack at Berlin. The crews were over the target at between 19,000 and 24,000 feet, releasing 48,000 lbs of high explosives and 409,000 lbs of incendiaries. According to reports, there was severely high winds and the attack was scattered. This was another terrible night as 72 crews failed to return due to being blown off course and over heavy flak defenses. Richard Koval (6bombergroup.ca)

Halifax BIII aircraft LW 435 QB-R failed to return from an operation against targets in Berlin, Germany, shot down by a night-fighter between Olfen and Datteln, Germany

FS WG Tilman (RCAF) and Flying Officer WE Krampe (RCAF) were killed in action

Flying Officer AG Fleming (RCAF), FS LG Jewell (RCAF), Sergeant EG Evans (RCAF), Sergeant RD Wilson (RCAF) and Sergeant JL MacKintosh (RAFVR) survived and all were taken as Prisoners of War

unvetted Source Halifax BIII LW435 [Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database]...

Footprints on the Sands of Time, RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of War in Germany 1939-45 by Oliver Clutton-Brock pages 289,293,329,350,437

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