Aircraft | Handley Page Halifax II |
Serial Number | JB863 |
Markings | KN-V |
Burial/Memorial Country | United Kingdom |
Burial/Memorial Place | Pocklington Burial Ground |
Grave Reference | X.46. 3284.. |
Epitaph |
Phase | 2 |
Panel Number | 202 |
Service Number | R/131442 |
Service | Royal Canadian Air Force |
Group | 4 |
Squadron | 77 |
Trade | Air Gunner |
Country of origin if different | Canada |
Clinch D H (Sgt) |
Cooke W (F/S) |
Danby F (Sgt) |
Gurry A H (Sgt) |
Holledge N R (F/S) |
Young A W S (F/O) |
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 |