LW521 Halifax III HD-G
  
15th March 1944
                 
Pilot Bomb Aimer Navigator Wireless Operator Flight Engineer Mid Upper Gunner Rear Gunner  
                 
  F/S J C Bond F/S J N Keys F/O O K Chrimes F/S B L Sheean Sgt J A White Sgt D K Messenger Sgt C Y Warren  
  RAAF RAAF   RAAF     RAAF  
               
                 
   
                 
                 
  Take Off :- 18:59   Base :- RAF Leconfield   Mission :- Stuttgart  
                 
  Details :- LW521 was badly shot about by a night-fighter obliged to ditch about a mile off Salcombe.  
                 
  F/O Chrimes is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.  
                 
   
               
  LW521 ditched about a mile from here  
               
 
Picture of F/S J C Bond courtesy of National Archives Australia.
 
  Picture of F/S B L Sheean courtesy of Australian War Memorial.  
               
 

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