Squadron: 405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1943-10-20
Completion Date: 1943-10-20
Mission: Bombing
Operation: Battle of Berlin
Target City: Leipzig Germany
Target Specific:
Base: Gransden Lodge
Take Off Time: 17.39
Squadron Code: LQ R
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Harrenstatte
Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
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Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*R". Failed to return from operation over Leipzig on 20 / 21 October 1943. Only survivor was mid-upper Pilot Officer D.O. Johnson, who reported that flak hit set fire to port inner engine, and started fire in fuselage. Progressive engine fires and spread of fuselage fire led to mid-upper abandoning aircraft.
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405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*R". Failed to return from operation over Leipzig on 20 / 21 October 1943. Only survivor was mid-upper Pilot Officer D.O. Johnson, who reported that flak hit set fire to port inner engine, and started fire in fuselage. Progressive engine fires and spread of fuselage fire led to mid-upper abandoning aircraft.
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