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MOFFATT, Curtis

Aircraft Information
Aircraft Vickers Wellington III
Serial Number BJ756
Markings KO-Q
Memorial information
Burial/Memorial Country Netherlands
Burial/Memorial Place Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery
Grave Reference Plot 13. Row 7. Grave 137..
Epitaph
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase 2
Panel Number 213
Enlistment information
Service Number R/105883
Service Royal Canadian Air Force
Group 3
Squadron 115
Trade Air Gunner
Country of origin if different Canada
Last Operation information
Start Date 12-03-1943
End Date 13-03-1943
Takeoff Station East Wretham
Day/Night raid Night
Operation Essen. 457 aircraft, 23 losses (5.0%). PFF marked using Oboe. Very accurate bombing over the Krupps factory. 500 homes also destroyed. German authorities also reported damage and deaths in neighbouring towns.
Reason for Loss Shot down by a Bf.110 night-fighter flown by Lt. Oskar Köstler of 10./NJG1 and crashed into the IJsselmeer