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RAF aircraft's crash sites in Province of Luxembourg:
Bouillon

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Crash site of Halifax DT668-NP-R
26/02/1943

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cest raf squadron
Unit: 158 Squadron
Aircraft: Halifax
Code: DT668-NP-R
Base: Pockling
Mission: Frankfurt
Crew officer:
Incident: No details about the reasons of crash

Location: (Prov. Luxembourg)

crash

Facts

Nuremburg. 337 aircraft, 9 losses (2.7%). PFF marking was late due to poor weather conditions with the result that most of the bombs fell on the northern outskirts of the city. Some of the bombs fell in neighbouring Furth.
Crashed on a road 2 kms S of Rochehaut (Belgian province Luxembourg), 7 kms NW of Bouillon at 01.00 hrs. Sgt (rear gunner) Alexander C. HOWE - 1367393 suffered severe fractured legs and was brought by civilians the the hotel "Modem" at Rochehaut where Dr Arnould from Bouillon gave first aid. From there carried by civil car to a hospital at Sedan, France.
Sgt Howe became a PoW (Camp 357 - PoW-number 401).

RAF-Command archives

Sources:
The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
Aircrew Remembered
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