Squadron: 419 (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1945-03-21
Completion Date: 1945-03-21
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Hemmingstedt Germany
Target Specific:
Base: Middleton St. George
Take Off Time: 01.51
Squadron Code: VR P
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Crash City: Odderace, Germany
Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
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War Diary Unavailable
6 Bomber Group March 21, 1945
90 Halifaxes from 408, 415, 420, 425, 426, and 432 Squadrons were ordered on an attack of the rail yards at Rheine. The crews were over the target at between 10,000 and 12,000 feet, releasing 664,000 lbs of high explosives.According to reports, bombing was accurate and severe damage was caused. Richard Koval (6bombergroup.ca)
419 Moose Squadron (Moosa Aswayita). Target - the Heide refinery, Hemmingstedt, Germany. Lancaster aircraft KB 786 blew up in the air and crashed west of the Kiel canal, near Odderace, Germany. Flight Lieutenant H.B.rubin, F/Os R.W. Millar, A.J. Palanek, L.C. Croucher, Pilot Officer C.A. Elliott, and one RAF airman were killed. One Canadian, FS G.E. Aitken was taken Prisoner of War.
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