Loss Register
Day or Night of operation | Operation | Target | Nickname Aircraft | |||||
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31 Aug/1 Sep 43 | Target marking | Berlin | ||||||
Factory | Aircraft | Mk | Serial/Wnr. | Code | Unit | Air Force | TO/t | Airfield |
Handley Page | Halifax | II | HR878 | TL-J | 35 Sqdn | RAF | 2010 | Graveley |
Time | Cause of the Crash | Crash Location | Damage | Province |
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2241 | Shot down by Oblt. H.-W. Schnaufer of 12./NJG 1 | Crashed 1,5 km e of Kuinre | Overijssel |
Function | Mil Rank | Ini | Name | Age | Mil reg | Air Force | Fate | Cemetery | Grave | Remarks |
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Pilot | S/Ldr. | W.W. | Surtees | 77876 | RAF | POW | - | |||
Flight Engineer | P/O. | E.J. | Brown | 22 | 52566 | RAF | KIA | Kuinre | 22 40D | |
Navigator | F/Lt. | G. | Newsham | 29 | 79755 | RAF | KIA | Kuinre | 22 40C | |
Bomb Aimer | P/O. | H.G.W. | Wooley | 148818 | RAF | POW | - | |||
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner | F/O. | H.A. | Penny | 139204 | RAF | EVD | - | Returned to UK 11 Nov 43 | ||
Mid Upper Gunner | Sgt. | T.H. | Sutton | 21 | 1033490 | RAF | KIA | Kuinre | 22 40B | |
Rear Gunner | F/Sgt. | J.R. | Griffin | 31 | 848343 | RAF | KIA | Kuinre | 22 40E |
Wartime Records | Background Info |
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Operations Record Book | Chorley, ‘Bomber Command Losses 1943’, page 299; Boiten, ‘Nachtjagd Combat Archive June-September 1943’, page 107 |
Version March, 2022