Squadron: 460 (B) Sqn (RAAF)
Start Date: 1945-03-06
Completion Date: 1945-03-06
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Chemnitz Germany
Target Specific: oil refinery
Base: RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Take Off Time: 1629
Squadron Code: AR A
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Pfieffe, Germany
Crash Specifics: 5km ESE of Spangenberg, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: flak
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim:
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460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster PB857 was on an operational raid on a oil refinery at Chemnitz, in the state of Saxony, Germany, when it was hit by flak and crashed near Pfieffe, Germany, where its bomb load exploded. Casualties included RAAF Sqn Leader J.C. Holmes (FDC) (pilot); RAAF Flying Officer I.S. Baudinette; RAAF Flying Officer D.G. Hudspeth; RAAF Flt. Sgt. T.T. Clarke; RAAF W/O E.O.T. Mayne; RAAF Flt. Lt. T.E.V. Morgan (DFM); RAFVR Flt. Sgt. R.E. Hayward (bomb aimer); and RAFVR Sgt. J. Young (flight engineer).
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460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster PB857 was on an operational raid on a oil refinery at Chemnitz, in the state of Saxony, Germany, when it was hit by flak and crashed near Pfieffe, Germany, where its bomb load exploded. Casualties included RAAF Sqn Leader J.C. Holmes (FDC) (pilot); RAAF Flying Officer I.S. Baudinette; RAAF Flying Officer D.G. Hudspeth; RAAF Flt. Sgt. T.T. Clarke; RAAF W/O E.O.T. Mayne; RAAF Flt. Lt. T.E.V. Morgan (DFM); RAFVR Flt. Sgt. R.E. Hayward (bomb aimer); and RAFVR Sgt. J. Young (flight engineer).
