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| Date: | Sunday 28 May 1944 |
| Time: | 02:29 claim |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 640 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LK865 |
| MSN: | C8-Q |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Brandven, Wortel, Hoogstraten, Antwerp -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Leconfield, East Riding of Yorkshire |
Takeoff at 23:56 hrs for a bombing operation against the military camp at Leopoldsburg in Limburg.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hermann Greiner of the 11./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Frank Williams DFM RAFVR 147967 (NCO:1233911 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 10 August, 1943) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Flying Officer Kenneth James Lambert DFC RAFVR 148827 (NCO:1006866 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 24 August, 1943) [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Roy Peter Olsen RAAF Aus/429479 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Thomas Harold Riley RAF 1451040 [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Ian Robert Brown Crawford RAF 1521647 [PoW]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Hubert Alexander Messenger RAFVR 1890126 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant T S White RCAF [PoW]
The casualties lie at the Schoonselhof Cemetery, Belgium (51.166083 / 4.368341)
Sources:
www.kwbwortel.be/files/3614/0083/4789/uitnodiging_Halifax.docx
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LK865
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 12-Nov-2017 18:35 | gerard57 | Added |
| 12-Nov-2018 17:56 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 02-Oct-2020 17:33 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Jun-2022 02:41 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 20-May-2024 12:11 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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