6 Bomber Group March 27/28, 1943
31 Halifaxes from 405, 408, and 419 Squadrons were ordered on an operation to Berlin. The crews were over the target at between 14,000 and 19,000 feet, releasing 54,000 lbs of high explosives and 81,000 lbs of incendiaries. According to reports the attack was scattered. Richard Koval (6bombergroup.ca)
408 Goose Squadron (For Freedom) RAF Leeming. Halifax B Mk II aircraft BB 332 EQ-H on-route to an operation against targets in Berlin Germany was struck by flak near Hannover, Germany, damaging two engines and holing several fuel tanks. Still flying but unable to continue to the target or make it back to England, the pilot turned instead for neutral Sweden. Once over Swedish airspace the aircraft was abandoned before it crashed near Lindberg, Halland, roughly 64 km south-southeast of Gothenburg, Sweden
The entire crew survived and briefly became interned prisoners in Sweden, a vastly different experience than being a Prisoner of War in Germany
Flight Engineer, Sergeant Harold Lewis Grayson DFM (RCAF), Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, Sergeant Robert Hall (RCAF), Air Gunner, Sergeant Franklin Wallis Grant (RCAF), Air Gunner, Sergeant Alois Gabriel Seiben (RCAF), Pilot, Sergeant Ronald Howell Batchelor (RAF), Navigator, Sergeant Harry Wein (RAF) and Navigator, Ronald Victor Fisher (RAF) were briefly held in Sweden as Interned Prisoners but were all returned, safe to the UK 1943-04-13/14
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