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Halifax III MZ514 SE-P left Croft with First Leiutenant Boyle USAAF
at the controls at 2229hrs
on April 22/23
for an op to Dusseldorf.
The aircraft
crashed at Veen
and
was
the first Halifax III to be reported as missing from 431 squadron. The other
crewmembers were:
|
Name |
Trade |
Service |
Age |
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1st Lt Edmund Boyle |
Pilot |
USAAF |
- |
|
F/O Peter MacGregor |
Navigator |
RCAF |
22 |
|
P/O Norbert Lynch |
Bomb Aimer |
RCAF |
- |
|
P/O Fred Hatchman |
Wireless Air Gunner |
RCAF |
- |
|
P/O Robert Lochhead |
Air Gunner |
RCAF |
- |
|
P/O Joseph Priamo |
Air Gunner |
RCAF |
19 |
|
Sgt Albert Howcroft |
Air Gunner |
RAFVR |
19 |
The Boyle
crew had posted into 431 squadron just a a few weeks earlier on
March 13, 1944. For full
details of the crew and the operation please see the tribute titled
The First
of Many under the Airmen section.
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