Squadron: 460 (B) Sqn (RAAF)
Start Date: 1945-02-02
Completion Date: 1945-02-02
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Wiesbaden Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, Untied Kingdom
Take Off Time: 2042
Squadron Code: AR H
Radio Code:
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Crash City: Riedelbach, Germany
Crash Specifics: 17 km NW of Bad Homburg-vor-der-Hohe
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). Lancaster aircraft PB 807 was delivered to 460 Squadron in Dec 1944. The aircraft was on a night raid against Wiesbaden, Germany, when it crashed at Riedelbach, Germany. The cause of the crash is unknown. Casualties included RCAF Pilot Officer D.G. Russell (air gunner); RAAF Pilot Officer N.W. Everett (navigator), RAAF Flying Officer J. Macguire (pilot), and W/O D.B. May (wireless operator / air gunner); RAFVR Sgt's. R.B. Newton (flight engineer) and W.G. Potter (air gunner); and RAF Flt. Sgt. R.H. Whitecap (bomb aimer).
6 Group Unavailable
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft PB 807 was delivered to 460 Squadron in Dec 1944. The aircraft was on a night raid against Wiesbaden, Germany, when it crashed at Riedelbach, Germany. The cause of the crash is unknown. Casualties included RCAF Pilot Officer D.G. Russell (air gunner); RAAF Pilot Officer N.W. Everett (navigator), RAAF Flying Officer J. Macguire (pilot), and W/O D.B. May (wireless operator / air gunner); RAFVR Sgt's. R.B. Newton (flight engineer) and W.G. Potter (air gunner); and RAF Flt. Sgt. R.H. Whitecap (bomb aimer).
