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Re: halifax DT803
Hello,
The circumstances of the loss of Halifax DT803 are well known!
8 Nov 1944
No.1666 Heavy Conversion Unit
Halifax II DT803
Training.
T/o 1915 Peterhead from whence it had landed in order to attend to an escape hatch that had partially opened, with the intention of returning to Wombleton. But, as the bomber picked up speed, it swung violently to port and ran into a ditch. F/O McHolm RCAF sustained a very painful compound fracture to his nose, and was admitted to the Royal Naval Hospital at Kingseat, Aberdeen.
J20988 F/O Norman A McHolm RCAF - Injured.
See:
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses Volume 8 - Heavy Conversion Units and Miscellaneous Units, 1939-1947.
Chorley, W. R.
Hinckley:Midland Publishing,2001.
p.145
See also:
Halifax II DT803.
35/NTU*/1666 HCU - Swung on take-off from Peterhead, u/c torn off and a/c caught fire, 8.11.44.
The Halifax File.
Roberts, R. N.
Tonbridge:Air-Britain (Historians),1982.
p.52
* NTU = Navigation Training Unit, Pathfinder Force.
Col.
Last edited by Col Bruggy; 22nd February 2019 at 00:32.
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