W1048 TL-S
Handley Page Halifax B.II · "S-Sugar"
| Code letters | TL-S |
|---|---|
| Squadron | No. 35 Squadron (Madras Presidency) |
| Mark | B.II |
| Fate | Lost on operations |
| Lost | 28 April 1942 |
Notes
A Handley Page Halifax II of No. 35 Squadron, coded TL-S, W1048 took off from RAF Kinloss on the night of 27/28 April 1942 to attack the battleship Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord. Hit by anti-aircraft fire, it came down on the frozen surface of Lake Hoklingen; one of the crew was taken prisoner while the other five reached neutral Sweden with the help of the Norwegian resistance. The aircraft sank through the ice and lay on the lake bed until 1973, when an RAF team recovered it. It is now preserved, unrestored, in the Bomber Command hall of the RAF Museum.
No sorties recorded for this airframe yet.