Loss Register
Day or Night of operation | Operation | Target | Nickname Aircraft | |||||
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22/23 Dec 42 | SD / SOE | Marrow 12 | ||||||
Factory | Aircraft | Mk | Serial/Wnr. | Code | Unit | Air Force | TO/t | Airfield |
Handley Page | Halifax | II | W7775 | NF-R | 138 Sqdn | RAF | 2245 | Tempsford |
Time | Cause of the Crash | Crash Location | Damage | Province |
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0103 | Shot down by Lt. H. Caspers of I./NJG 3 | Crashed IJhorsterveld at IJhorst | Overijssel |
Function | Mil Rank | Ini | Name | Age | Mil reg | Air Force | Fate | Cemetery | Grave | Remarks |
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Pilot | F/O. | G.F.B. | Newport-Tinley | 20 | 108998 | RAF | KIA | IJhorst | 6 | |
Second Pilot | Sgt. | B.M. | Pick | 21 | 1194506 | RAF | KIA | IJhorst | 3 | |
Flight Engineer | Sgt. | B.S. | Nixon | 30 | 1252858 | RAF | KIA | IJhorst | 5 | |
Navigator | W/O. | C.A. | Howard | 580998 | RAF | KIA | IJhorst | 2 | ||
Bomb Aimer | Sgt. | W.H. | Bloxham | 577761 | RAF | POW | - | |||
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner | F/Sgt. | H.C. | Taylor | 23 | 624640 | RAF | KIA | IJhorst | 1 | |
Rear Gunner | Sgt. | F.O. | Tierney | R/82760 | RCAF | POW | - | |||
Air Despatcher | Sgt. | C.C. | Hayes | 21 | 1331642 | RAF | KIA | IJhorst | 4 |
Wartime Records | Background Info |
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Operations Record Book | Chorley, ‘Bomber Command Losses 1942’, page 285; Boiten, ‘Nachtjagd Combat Archive May-December 1942’, page 124; Zwanenburg, 'En nooit was het stil I', page 536 |
Version March, 2022