LV785 ZA-C

Handley Page Halifax III

Code letters	ZA-C
Squadron	No. 10 Squadron
Mark	III
Fate	Lost on operations
Lost	1 January 1945

A Handley Page Halifax (representative type, not this airframe) — Representative photo of a Handley Page Halifax — not this individual aircraft.
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Notes

Returning from a coking-plant target on 1 January 1945 after a starboard-outer failure forced the crew to jettison their bombs over the North Sea, the Halifax came in too high at Melbourne; while going round again it struck a tree and crashed at Laytham Grange Farm, killing two of the crew.

Operations flown

Operation Dortmund (1 January 1945) — crashed_on_return

Crew: A C Smith (Bomb aimer) · I W King (Flight engineer) · D C Bishop (Mid-upper gunner) · L E Cunningham (Navigator) · C Winter (Pilot) · H J Newling (Rear gunner) · W A Waite (Wireless operator)