Squadron: 405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1944-01-14
Completion Date: 1944-01-14
Mission: Bombing
Operation: Battle of Berlin
Target City: Brunswick Germany
Target Specific:
Base: Gransden Lodge
Take Off Time: 16.57
Squadron Code: LQ K
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Uepsen, Germany
Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
Served with No. 405 Squadron, RCAF from 9 January 1944, coded "LQ*K". Failed to return from operation over Brunswick on 15 January 1944, its first operation. All crew killed. Had 8 hours logged when written off. One of 3 squadron losses on this mission. Reported as shot down by night fighter, crashing in flames in a farm filed near Uepsen, Germany, but the identity of this crashed aircraft is not confirmed
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