Squadron: 405 (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1942-05-31
Completion Date: 1942-05-31
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Cologne Germany
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Base: Pocklington
Take Off Time: 00.22
Squadron Code: LQ K
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Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
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405 (B) Squadron, RCAF in 1942/43, coded "LQ*K". Lost without a trace on mission to Koln, from Pocklington, on 30/31 May 1942. Sergeant Norman ACTON (810144)(RAF); Sergeant Douglas HENNING (917785)(RAF); Sergeant Andrew Fraser McLEAN (404616) (RAAF); Sergeant Warren Bryan PICKETT(RCAF) (R/98484); Pilot Officer George Edmund SANKEY (119523)(RAF); Flight Sergeant Leonard Alfred WADMAN (R/76357)(RCAF) Flight Sergeant Gerald Arthur WELSH (R/62398)(RCAF). Killed
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