LW158 DY-F

Handley Page Halifax III

Code lettersDY-F
SquadronNo. 102 Squadron (Ceylon)
MarkIII
FateLost on operations
Lost1 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

Crash-landed at Pocklington at 2226 returning from a coking-plant target on 1 January 1945, having undershot the runway and struck a building; one of the crew was killed.

Operations flown

Operation Dortmund (1 January 1945)crashed_on_return

Crew: J H Sheridan (Bomb aimer) · E Davies (Flight engineer) · J Bettney (Mid-upper gunner) · K Knight (Navigator) · M O Laugham (Pilot) · J Coleman (Rear gunner) · S Westwood (Wireless operator)