Loss Register
Day or Night of operation | Operation | Target | Nickname Aircraft | |||||
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22/23 Nov 43 | Bombing | Berlin | ||||||
Factory | Aircraft | Mk | Serial/Wnr. | Code | Unit | Air Force | TO/t | Airfield |
Handley Page | Halifax | II | LW286 | LK-H | 51 Sqdn | RAF | 1704 | Snaith |
Time | Cause of the Crash | Crash Location | Damage | Province |
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1846 | Probably shot down by Flak | Crashed into IJsselmeer in between Urk and Hindeloopen | IJsselmeer |
Function | Mil Rank | Ini | Name | Age | Mil reg | Air Force | Fate | Cemetery | Grave | Remarks |
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Pilot | P/O. | H.F. | Farley | 30 | 159066 | RAF | MIA | Runnymede Memorial | 131 | |
Flight Engineer | Sgt. | S.H. | Godfrey | 21 | 1272401 | RAF | MIA | Runnymede Memorial | 150 | |
Navigator | F/O. | F.H. | Moynihan | 23 | 139959 | RAF | KIA | Lemmer | C 8 222 | Washed up near Lemmer 31 Jan 44 |
Bomb Aimer | F/O. | H.O. | Hetterley | 131990 | RAF | MIA | Runnymede Memorial | 125 | ||
Wireless Operator | Sgt. | A.B. | Springett | 23 | 1078608 | RAF | KIA | Hindeloopen | D 1 2 | Washed up at Noorderstrand 22 Jan 44 |
Mid Upper Gunner | Sgt. | E.H.G. | Dyer | 1606353 | RAF | KIA | Amersfoort | 13 9 188 | Washed up Urk 12 Feb 44 | |
Rear Gunner | Sgt. | J.E. | Whitehead | 1333569 | RAF | MIA | Runnymede Memorial | 169 |
Wartime Records | Background Info |
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Operations Record Book | Chorley, ‘Bomber Command Losses 1943’, page 390; Boiten, ‘Nachtjagd Combat Archive September-December 1943’, page 76; Jansen, 'Wespennest Leeuwarden III', page 47 |
Version March, 2022