Accident Handley Page Halifax Mk V LK928, Monday 20 December 1943
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Date:Monday 20 December 1943
Time:19:26
Type:Silhouette image of generic hlfx model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Handley Page Halifax Mk V
Owner/operator:428 (Ghost) Sqn RCAF
Registration: LK928
MSN: NA-B
Fatalities:Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Near Glees, Rhineland-Palatinate -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Middleton St.George
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Took off at 16h14 on a bombing mission to Frankfurt. Intercepted and shot down by Hauptman Paul Herbert Rauh of 3./NJG4.

Pilot: R/13253 F/Sgt Joseph Lawrence Keighan (RCAF) - POW
Navigator: J/21553 F/O Keith Maxwell Mosher (RCAF) - Killed
Bomb Aimer: R/128073 WO2 Elmer Lawrance Tycoles (RCAF) – Died in hospital
Flight Engineer: R/68645 Sgt George Herkis Jessiman (RCAF) - Killed
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1516173 Sgt John Patrick Slater (RAFVR) - Killed
Air Gunner: 1600759 Sgt Thomas Stanley Roy Dagnall (RAFVR) - Killed
Air Gunner: 1052337 Sgt George Kensall (RAFRVR) - Killed

Sources:

Archives Canada
The National Archives UK
Personnel records of the RCAF crewmen from Ancestry.ca
RCAF losses 1943
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
CASPIR
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=lk928&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
https://aircrewremembered.com/keighan-joseph-lawrence.html/

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
30-Jun-2025 12:02 tachel Added
30-Jun-2025 13:52 tachel Updated [Narrative, ]

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