Liberator BZ813 B 24 - Operational - 1945-07-04 to 1945-07-04
Squadron: 111 (OT) OTU (RAF)
Start Date: 1945-07-04
Completion Date: 1945-07-04
Mission: Operational
Operation: unspecified
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Base: Nassau, Bahamas
Take Off Time: 22:30
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Crash City: Caribbean Sea
Crash Specifics: 4 miles NE of Andros Island
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
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111Operational Training Unit, Nassau, Bahamas. Liberator GR.V aircraft BZ 813 took off with a crew of ten on a Leigh Light Homing exercise and crashed just over an hour into the flight, cause unknown. A search turned up wreckage and debris from the crash but no aircrew survivors were found

Flight Sergeant RA Davies (RAFVR), Warrant Officer SJ Ford (RAFVR), Flight Sergeant LG Green (RAFVR), Flight Lieutenant E Lindsey (RAFVR), Flying Officer IH Mitch (RAFVR), Sergeant HC Richardson (RAFVR), Flying Officer JPG Robinson (RAFVR), Sergeant JE Rowson (RAFVR), Flight Lieutenant AR Thompson (RNZAF) and Sergeant J Walker (RAFVR) were all missing, presumed killed in this flying accident

The missing have no known grave and all are commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial

The Liberator in Royal Air Force and Commonwealth Service by James D Oughton with John Hamlin and Andrew Thomas page 129

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