Squadron: 142 (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1944-07-13
Completion Date: 1944-07-13
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Milan Italy
Target Specific: Lambrate Marshalling Yards
Base: RAF Regina, Foggia, Italy
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Squadron Code: D
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Crash City: Italy
Crash Specifics: Passo della Portula, near Bergamo
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: flak
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142 Squadron (Determination) RAF Regina, Foggia, Italy. Wellington BX aircraft HE 293-D had been struck by flak and was struggling in poor weather conditions when it crashed in the Passo della Portula, near Bergamo, 50 miles north east of the target, the Lambrate Marshalling Yards in Milan, Italy
Pilot Officer E A W Dawson (RCAF), Flight Sergeant G E Smith (RCAF), Flight Sergeant K E Fairclough (RAFVR), Flight Sergeant E Berwick (RAFVR) and Sergeant W Kirkland (RAFVR) were all killed in action and were buried by local partisans near the crash site. They were later exhumed and now rest in the Milan War Cemetery.
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