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1944-02-20 Pilot Officer - Survived | |
Halifax B/A.Mk.III LW433 QBW | 424 (B) Sqn (RCAF) |
Take-off: 23:52:00 | Target: Leipzig Germany |
Halifax B/A.Mk.III LW433Bombing Leipzig Germany 1944-February-19 to 1944-February-20
Halifax BIII aircraft LW 433 QB-W, taxiing before take-off for an operation to Leipzig, Germany was involved a runway collision, struck in the rear by another taxiing Halifax HX 316 QB-D
Rear Gunner P/O GA Bottrell (RCAF) was killed by the propeller of the other aircraft, the only casualty from either aircraft
424 Tiger Squadron (Castigandos Castigarnus) RAF Skipton-on-Swale. Halifax BIII aircraft LW 433 QB-W, taxiing before take-off for an operation to Leipzig, Germany was involved a runway collision, struck in the rear by another taxiing Halifax HX 316 QB-D
Navigator P/O AG Fleming (RCAF) survived, safe
Others on the Aircraft
1944-06-17 RAFVR Sergeant Peter Dennis Victor Ager KIA 2023-04-181944-06-17 RCAF Pilot Officer Albert Edward Charles Boehmer KIA 2022-04-06
1944-02-20 RCAF Pilot Officer Gerald Alphonse Bottrell KIFLA 2021-10-23
1944-06-17 RCAF Pilot Officer John Hanham Dougherty PoW 2021-10-22
1944-06-17 RCAF Pilot Officer Edmund James Downing PoW 2021-10-23
1944-02-20 RCAF Sergeant Edward Gomer Evans Survived 2021-10-23
1944-06-17 RCAF Pilot Officer William Adrian Good KIA 2022-06-04
1944-06-17 RCAF Pilot Officer Frederick James Haldenby PoW 2021-10-22
1944-06-17 RCAF Sergeant Thomas Inverarity Evader 2022-06-04
1944-02-20 RCAF Sergeant Leroy George Jewell Survived 2021-10-23
1944-02-20 RCAF Flying Officer William Ernest Krampe Survived 2021-10-23
1944-02-20 RAFVR Sergeant James Law MacKintosh Survived 2021-10-23
1944-02-20 RCAF Pilot Officer William Gerard Tillman Survived 2022-10-05