Unit: 434 Squadron
Aircraft: Halifax
Code: LK894-IP-K
Base: Tholthorpe
Mission: Mönchengladbach
Crew officer: P/O Francis Leaver
Incident: Shot down by German fighter
Location: (Prov. Limburg)
Facts
Halifax V LK894 IP-K 434 Sqn Operation: Mönchengladbach. Take off 23.48 Tholthorpe. Believed to have crashed at Kessenich (Limburg, Belgium). All were buried at St.Truiden on 2 September, but their graves are now in Heverlee War Cemtery.