Squadron: 460
Start Date: 1944-05-04
Completion Date: 1944-05-04
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Mailly-le-Camp France
Target Specific: military camp
Base: RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Take Off Time: 21:43
Squadron Code: AR G
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Chapelle-Vallon (Aube), France
Crash Specifics: 15 km N of Troyes
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
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460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft ND 630 was delivered to 460 Squadron in Feb 1944. Aircraft was shot down by a night fighter within minutes of leaving the area whilst engaged in a night raid against MaiIly Le Camp, France. Casualties included RCAF P/O's A.B. Moore (air gunner) and G.R. Warnock (air bomber); RAAF Flt. Sgt. G.C. Barber, Pilot Officer J.W. Smart; RAFVR Sgt.'s F.F. Naismith (wireless operator / air gunner) and T. Oulton (flight engineer), and Flt. Sgt. E.F. Stannett (air bomber).

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