Listed below is the information available for operations to this target flown by 550 Squadron.
Operation Summary: The column headers should be fairly self-explanatory. The term "aborted" as used here covers a number of possibilities:
Aircraft Deployed: When a link to a particular aircraft is given, this indicates aircraft known to have taken part in this raid (in the records currently available to the web-site author). A record of whether the aircraft returned or failed to return (FTR) is also logged.
Servicemen Deployed: Names of the crew in the operation.
Station Summary: This section is the information from the RAF North Killingholme Station Record Book for the operational date (if available).
Definitions of the abbreviations used are available: here.
The amount of data in the database is growing and this is resulting in the "all operations/targets" list getting rapidly bigger and thus slower to generate. There are options to display shorter, more quickly generated, reports if you want to home in on something specific. For example, there are options to generate reports on operations to a single target, or by single aircraft (to all targets) or by single aircraft to a single target. There is, on the database-reports summary page, a short user guide (PDF format) on how to do this.
Aircraft Deployed | Servicemen Deployed | Aircraft Service Number | Returned or FTR |
Comments | Crew Details | PD221 | Returned | Primary 19,000 feet at 19.50 hours |
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Aircraft Deployed | Servicemen Deployed | Aircraft Service Number | Returned or FTR |
Comments | Crew Details | PD221 | Returned | Primary 18,000 feet at 15.43 hours [Station CO McIntyre pilot] |
G/C R V McIntyre (P) F/O R P Franklyn (P) Sgt S Dennis (F/Eng) F/Sgt R H Lucas (Nav) F/Sgt J A Dibley (A/B) F/Sgt R J Chester (W/Op) Sgt K Sharp (MU/AG) Sgt P J James (R/AG) |
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Aircraft Deployed | Servicemen Deployed | Aircraft Service Number | Returned or FTR |
Comments | Crew Details | PD221 | Returned | Primary 20,000 ft at 19.36 1/2 |
F/O J A Beale (P) F/O G W Bell (P) Sgt R J McElroy (F/Eng) F/O D C R Hills (Nav) F/O B H Lowen (A/B) Sgt J F Noonan (W/Op) Sgt D E Hookham (MU/AG) Sgt R West (R/AG) |
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Based on the data in the lists displayed above, and keeping in mind that data is still being updated and thus not yet complete, the following statistics are generated:
Aircraft deployments | 3 |
MAX Aircraft deployed in single operation |
1 (Essen, 23 Oct 1944) |
These details were last updated: 05 December 2024
this list is still being built and will take some time to complete
what is currently displayed is believed accurate but much more is still to be added
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