HX233 Halifax III HD-C
  
28th January 1944
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  Pilot F/L F W Mack RAAF  
         
  2nd Pilot F/S D J Cowin RAAF  
         
  Flight Engineer Sgt H J Wright  
         
  Navigator P/O N E Ward - P.O.W.  
         
  Bomb Aimer P/O H G Hunt - P.O.W.  
         
  Wireless Operator & Air Gunner Sgt C J Barron  
         
  Mid Upper Gunner F/S A Morgan RAAF  
         
  Rear Gunner  F/S D S Alexander RAAF  
         
Take off :- 00:24 Base :- RAF Leconfield Mission :- Berlin
     
Details :- Shortly after bombing HX233 was attacked by a night-fighter at 19,000ft and was partially abandoned. The aircraft coming down at Hirschfelde, Germany (approx 18 miles North-East of Berlin) after exploding in the air.
     
Those of the crew who died are buried in the Berlin 1939 - 1945 War Cemetery.
     
P/O Ward - PoW number is 3460 in camp L3.
     
P/O Hunt - PoW number is 3367 in camp L3.
     
Photograph of F/S Douglas Cowin kindly supplied by his neice, Joan Dunn (nee Cowin)
Photograph of P/O Herbert George Hunt kindly supplied by Craig White
     

 
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