Squadron: 458 (B) Sqn (RAAF)
Start Date: 1943-06-16
Completion Date: 1943-06-16
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City:
Target Specific: anti-submarine patrol
Base: RAF Protville, Tunisia
Take Off Time: 2040
Squadron Code: FU
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Crash Specifics: Mediterranean Sea
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
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War Diary Unavailable
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458 Australia Squadron (We Find and Destroy). Wellington LB195 was on an anti-submarine patrol escorting a convoy. It sent suddenly off the RDF plot and did not return to base. Casualties included: RCAF W/O II T.P. Scandiffio (navigator); RAAF Flt. Sgt. J.E. Flecknoe (air gunner); RAF Sgt. E.B. Bottomley (pilot); RAFVR Flt. Sgt. J.D. Reynolds (air gunner); RAFVR Sgt's. J.R. Cousines (wireless operator / air gunner), and B.L. Pottage (second pilot).
6 Group Unavailable
458 Australia Squadron (We Find and Destroy). Wellington LB195 was on an anti-submarine patrol escorting a convoy. It sent suddenly off the RDF plot and did not return to base. Casualties included: RCAF W/O II T.P. Scandiffio (navigator); RAAF Flt. Sgt. J.E. Flecknoe (air gunner); RAF Sgt. E.B. Bottomley (pilot); RAFVR Flt. Sgt. J.D. Reynolds (air gunner); RAFVR Sgt's. J.R. Cousines (wireless operator / air gunner), and B.L. Pottage (second pilot).
