HX233
Halifax III HD-C
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HX233
Halifax III HD-C
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| 28th January 1944 | ||||||||
| Pilot | Bomb Aimer | Navigator | Wireless Operator | Flight Engineer | Mid Upper Gunner | Rear Gunner | 2nd Pilot | |
| F/L F W Mack | P/O H G Hunt | P/O N E Ward | Sgt C J Barron | Sgt H J Wright | F/S A Morgan | F/S D S Alexander | F/S D J Cowin | |
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| 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. | ||||||||
| 677 aircraft including 241 Halifax detailed on the mission, 26 Halifax aircraft were lost including HX233, HX294 and HX345 from 466 Squadron. | ||||||||
| Those of the crew who died are buried in the Berlin 1939 - 1945 War Cemetery. | ||||||||
| P/O Hunt - PoW number is 3367 in camp L3. | ||||||||
| P/O Ward - PoW number is 3460 in camp L3. | ||||||||
| Photograph of F/S Douglas Cowin kindly supplied by his niece, Joan Dunn (nee Cowin) | ||||||||
| Photograph of P/O Herbert George Hunt kindly supplied by Craig White | ||||||||
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