LV781 Halifax III HD-H
  
19th February 1944
                 
Pilot Bomb Aimer Navigator Wireless Operator Flight Engineer Mid Upper Gunner Rear Gunner  
                 
  W/O J F Moran F/O M G Pepper W/O A N D McPhee F/S L A Laver Sgt R F Banks Sgt G E Brown Sgt E Harper  
  RAAF RAAF RAAF RAAF        
   
                 
   
                 
                 
  Take Off :- 00:17   Base :- RAF Leconfield   Mission :- Leipzig  
                 
  Details :- LV781 was shot down by a night-fighter pilot in a Bf110, crashing at 05:00 in the Waddensee off Harlingen.  
                 
  Five of the crew who died are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.  
  Sgt Brown and Sgt Harper are buried in the Harlingen General Cemetery.  
                 
  Picture of W/O J F Moran courtesy of Gerry Doney.  
   Picture of Sgt G E Brown courtesy of Australian War Memorial.  
               
               
 

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