Squadron: 460
Start Date: 1942-06-03
Completion Date: 1942-06-03
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
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Base: RAF Breighton, England
Take Off Time: 23:30
Squadron Code: UV K
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Crash City: Deulken, Germany
Crash Specifics: near the town of Muenchengladbach about 20 miles west of Dusseldorf
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
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War Diary Unavailable
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460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Wellington aircraft Z 1249 went missing while on night operations, presumed over the target. It was established post-war that the aircraft was shot down at 01:40 Deulken near the town of Muenchengladbach about 20 miles west of Dusseldorf. The aircraft exploded and wreckage was scattered over a wide area. All the crew were killed instantly. German documents revealed that they removed the remains of the crew for burial, but a post-war search for their graves was unsuccessful. The names of the crew are recorded on the Runnymede Memorial to the Missing, in Surrey, UK, as having no known grave. Casualties included RCAF Flt. Sgt. R.D.G. Read (air gunner); RAAF Flt. Sgt's. H.R. Brodie (observer) and S. Levitus (pilot); RAAF Sgt. J.A. Gaiter (wireless operator / air gunner); and RAF Sgt. T.G.P. Townsend (air gunner).
6 Group Unavailable
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Wellington aircraft Z 1249 went missing while on night operations, presumed over the target. It was established post-war that the aircraft was shot down at 01:40 Deulken near the town of Muenchengladbach about 20 miles west of Dusseldorf. The aircraft exploded and wreckage was scattered over a wide area. All the crew were killed instantly. German documents revealed that they removed the remains of the crew for burial, but a post-war search for their graves was unsuccessful. The names of the crew are recorded on the Runnymede Memorial to the Missing, in Surrey, UK, as having no known grave. Casualties included RCAF Flt. Sgt. R.D.G. Read (air gunner); RAAF Flt. Sgt's. H.R. Brodie (observer) and S. Levitus (pilot); RAAF Sgt. J.A. Gaiter (wireless operator / air gunner); and RAF Sgt. T.G.P. Townsend (air gunner).
