Squadron: 419 (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1944-05-16
Completion Date: 1944-05-16
Mission: Operational
Operation: unspecified
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Base: Middleton St. George
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Squadron Code: VR B
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Crash City: Helmsley Moor, Yorkshire
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Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
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War Diary Unavailable
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Operated by No. 419 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "VR*B". Crashed on Helmsley Moor, Yorkshire on 16 May 1944, after taking off from Middleton St. George on a night training flight. Struck high ground, in clouds, en route to bombing range at on Helmsley Moor, near Potter House Farm. All 7 crew killed.
The crew of Lancaster aircraft KB 701 were.Warrant Officer H.G. Grice, Sergeants F.A. Milne, N.F. Alsop, Pilot Officer J.G. McMaster, one USAAF member of the crew, and one other member of the crew, not Canadian, were also killed. The two members of this crew who were not Canadian were 2nd. Lt. E.N. Fordham (USAAF) and Sgt. G.T. Jones (RAF). Detail provided by David E. Thompson, Stockton-on-Tees, England.
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