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CRACKNELL, Albert

Aircraft Information
Aircraft Handley Page Halifax III
Serial Number MZ645
Markings PT-N
Memorial information
Burial/Memorial Country Germany
Burial/Memorial Place Becklingen War Cemetery
Grave Reference 19. B. 12..
Epitaph REQUIESCANT IN PACE
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase 2
Panel Number 150
Enlistment information
Service Number 1544879
Service Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Group 6
Squadron 420 (Snowy Owl)
Trade Flight Engineer
Country of origin if different United Kingdom
Last Operation information
Start Date 28-07-1944
End Date 29-07-1944
Takeoff Station Tholthorpe
Day/Night raid Night
Operation Hamburg. 307 aircraft. German night-fighters appeared on the return leg leading to 22 losses (7.2%). This was the first raid on Hamburg for a year and was not well concentrated. The Germans were unable to determine the aiming point from the bombing results. Most of the bombs fell on areas devastated during 1943.
Reason for Loss Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed at Estorf, NNE of Bremervörde, Germany