Studiegroep Luchtoorlog 1939-1945

Loss Register


Loss chart: T3715
Day or Night of operation Operation Target Nickname Aircraft
24/25 May 44 Bombing Aachen (G)
Factory Aircraft Mk Serial/Wnr. Code Unit Air Force TO/t Airfield
Handley Page Halifax III HX320 NP-A 158 Sqdn RAF 2244 Lissett
Time Cause of the Crash Crash Location Damage Province
0043 Probably shot down by Oblt. J. Werth of Stab/NJG 2 Crashed at Lieshout Noord-Brabant
Function Mil Rank Ini Name Age Mil reg Air Force Fate Cemetery Grave Remarks
Pilot P/O. M.V. Lawrence J/19574 RCAF POW -
Flight Engineer P/O. R.P. Freeman 21 174594 RAF EVD-POW - Captured 27 May 44 Holland
Navigator F/O. R.D. MacFayden J/20071 RCAF EVD-POW - Was arrested 8th Jul 44 at Tilburg
Bomb Aimer F/O. J.B. O'Hara J/23156 RCAF POW -
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner F/Sgt. R. Barnes 1046311 RAF EVD -
Mid Upper Gunner Sgt. W.J. Christie 651450 RAF EVD-POW - Arrested 27 Jun 44 Antwerp
Rear Gunner Sgt. R.E. Stubbs 1803616 RAF EVD-POW - Arrested 26 Jun 44 Wuustwezel
Wartime Records Background Info
Operations Record Book Chorley, ‘Bomber Command Losses 1944’, page 241; Boiten, ‘Nachtjagd Combat Archive May-July 1944’, page 24; TNA WO344/113/1 for details Freeman

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