Halifax JP162 B/GR.Mk.II - SOE - 1944-08-04 to 1944-08-05
Squadron: 148 (SD) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1944-08-04
Completion Date: 1944-08-05
Mission: SOE
Operation: unspecified
Target City:
Target Specific:
Base: Campo Casale, Brindisi, Italy
Take Off Time: 19:45:00
Squadron Code: FS-S
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Poland
Crash Specifics: near the village of Wojnarowa
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim: Fw Helmut Konter of INJG 100
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable

148 Squadron (Trusty) RAF, Campo Casale, Brindisi, Italy. Halifax II aircraft JP 162 FS-S was returning from a successful operation to drop supplies for the Polish Home Army at Miechoiwa near Krakow, Poland when it was attacked and shot down by a ME-110 night fighter flown by Fw Helmut Konter of INJG 100. The Halifax crashed near the village of Wojnarowa, Poland with the loss of three air crew

Sergeant C Aspinall (RAFVR), Flight Lieutenant JG McCall (RAFVR) and Sergeant JFC Rae (RAFVR) were all killed in action

Flying Officer PJ Anderson (RCAF), Sergeant RO Peterson (RCAF), Sergeant WC Underwood (RAFVR) and Sergeant A Jolly (RAFVR) survived and all evaded capture and joined the Partisans until liberated and returned to the UK in March of 1945

Flights of the Forgotten, Special Duties Operations in World War Two by KA Merrick, page 208

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