HX243 Halifax III HD-D

  
24th July 1944
                 
Pilot Bomb Aimer Navigator Wireless Operator Flight Engineer Mid Upper Gunner Rear Gunner  
                 
  P/O H B Shaw F/S S H Davies F/S P J Birt F/S J H Elder Sgt R England F/S A O Beazley F/S A G Jasper  
  RAAF RAAF   RAAF   RAAF RAAF  
   
                 
   
                 
                 
  Take Off :- 21:15   Base :- RAF Driffield   Mission :- Stuttgart  
            Modern overlay view of the target area  
                 
  Details :- HX243 crashed at 01:51 after colliding with LV833 at Bonlanden 6km South South East of Echterdingen.  
                 
  614 aircraft detailed for this mission including 153 Halifax, 4 Halifax were lost including HX243 and LV833 from 466 Squadron.  
     
  All of the crew were buried in Bonlanden Cemetery before being re-buried to Durnbach War Cemetery in 1947.  
                 
  Photograph of F/S A O Beazley kindly supplied by Kevin Beazley  
               
               
 

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