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NOVACK, Nicholas

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. 11..
Epitaph GEROEM ZAGINUV U BOYU ZA CANADU I ZA SIMEISTVU SVOYU. TSARSTVO YOMU NEBESNE (Russian - He died heroically in the battle for Canada and for his family. The Kingdom of Heaven is his).
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase 2
Panel Number 220
Enlistment information
Service Number J/90310
Service Royal Canadian Air Force
Group 6
Squadron 420 (Snowy Owl)
Trade Air Gunner
Country of origin if different Canada
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