HX274 Halifax III HD-X
  
10th April 1944
                 
Pilot Bomb Aimer Navigator Wireless Operator Flight Engineer Mid Upper Gunner Rear Gunner  
                 
  F/O C N Lamb F/S H A Jacob F/S S M Slatter F/S R S Westerman Sgt A S Harman F/S P J Bourke F/S R A Ince  
  RAAF RAAF RAAF - P.o.W. RAAF   RAAF RAAF  
     
                 
   
                 
                 
  Take Off :- 21:03   Base :- RAF Leconfield   Mission :- Tergnier  
                 
  Details :- HX274 crashed with its full bomb load after being shot down by a night-fighter at Rogecourt (Aisne), 24km from St-Quentin.  
                 
  157 Halifax aircraft detailed for this mission with the loss of 10 including HX274 and LV875 from 466 Squadron.  
     
  Those who died are buried in Rogecourt Communal Cemetery.  
     
  F/S Slatter - PoW number is 4595 in camp L1.  
 
 
               
               
 

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