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MacDONALD RE
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MACDONALD, Ronald

Aircraft Information
Aircraft Handley Page Halifax II
Serial Number JB863
Markings KN-V
Memorial information
Burial/Memorial Country United Kingdom
Burial/Memorial Place Pocklington Burial Ground
Grave Reference X.46. 3284..
Epitaph
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase 2
Panel Number 202
Enlistment information
Service Number R/131442
Service Royal Canadian Air Force
Group 4
Squadron 77
Trade Air Gunner
Country of origin if different Canada
Last Operation information
Start Date 19-06-1943
End Date 20-06-1943
Takeoff Station Elvington
Day/Night raid Night
Operation le Creusot to bomb the Breuil steelworks. 290 aircraft, 3 losses (1.0%). Highly targeted raid in which each bomber was to destroy a particular part of the works by the light of the flares dropped by PFF. In fact the smoke from the flares did much to hamper such identification. Most of the bombs consequently fell on a nearby residential area
Reason for Loss Crashed soon after takeoff, just south of Heslington where 4 Group HQ were located