Details of Aircraft used

handley page halifax ii series 1

From a batch of 200 delivered 1942 / 1943 by The London Aircraft Production Group. 624 sqn from 1943

BB386 Crashed Blida 04.3.1944
BB429 To 148 sqn. 1944 Struck Off Charge 04.1945
BB433 To 148 sqn. 1944 Struck Off Charge 04.1945
BB440 To 1586flt./301sqn. Struck Off Charge 03.1945
BB442 To 148sqn. 1944 Struck off charge 04.1945
BB444 Crashed on supply mission over Albania 02.02.1944

handley page halifax v

From batches of 238 delivered 1942 / 1943 by Rootes Securities of Speke. 624sqn. from 1943

DG357 To 148sqn. 1944 Struck off charge 28.09.1944
EB140 Missing over Greece 01.12.1943
EB141 Crashed Blida 06.08.1943
EB142 Crashed Blida 10.9.1943
EB147 To 148sqn. 1944 Shot down over Warsaw 04.08.1944
EB154 To 148sqn. 1944 Crashed on SOE operation Italy 17.08.44
EB179 To 148sqn. 1944 Struck off charge 08.1944
EB188 To 148sqn. 1944 Crashed on take off DBR 20.09.1943
EB189 To 148sqn. 1944 Struck off charge 04.1945
EB196 To 148sqn. 1944 Struck off charge 01.05.1945
EB197 Crashed on landing. DBR 09.09.1943

Handley Page Halifax ii Series 1A

From a batch of 250 delivered 1943 / 1944 by the London Aircraft Production Group. 624sqn.from 1943

JN888 Missing on SOE supply drop France 14.07.1944
JN889 To 148sqn./1586flt. Shot down over Yugoslavia 01.09.1944
JN894 Struck off charge 16.08.1945
JN896 Missing over Spain 14.08.1944
JN898 To 148sqn. Missing on supply drop to Warsaw 14.08.1944
JN918 Struck off charge 28.09.1944
JN926 To 148sqn. 1944 Shot down and landed Warsaw 15.08.1944
JN941 Struck off charge 16.08.1945
JN944 To 148sqn. Crashed on take off Brindisi DBR 08.10.1944
JN945 Struck off charge 16.08.1945
JN958 To 148sqn. Swung on landing Brindisi DBR 20.12.1944
JN960 Missing on SOE operation 28.04.1944
JN961 Crashed on take off Tocra 22.12.1943
JN962 To 148sqn. 1944 Struck off charge 12.07.1945
JP159 Struck off charge 31.01.1944
JP160 To 148sqn. 1944 Struck off charge 28.09.1944
JP176 To 148sdn. 1944 Struck off charge 01.05.1945
JP178 To 148sqn. 1944 Struck off charge 12.07.1945
JP205 Struck off charge 31.05.1944
JP206 Crashed on SOE operation France 26.06.1944
JP221 Struck off charge 18.08.1944
JP231 Struck off charge 12.07.1945
JP238 Hit Wellington on take off DBR 16.06.1944
JP240 Crashed on SOE operation France 25.06.1944
JP242 To 301sdn. 1944 Struck off charge 04.45
JP244 To 148sdn. Crashed on SOE operation Albania 08.10.44
JP246 To 148sdn. 1944 Crashed on landing Brindisi 08.10.1944
JP250 To 148sdn. 1944 Struck off charge 12.07.1945
JP253 Crashed on landing Blida DBR 30.06.1944

Short Stirling IV

From a batch of 360 delivered 1944 by Short and Harland of Belfast.

LJ938 Struck off charge 25.07.1946
LJ941 Struck off charge 25.09.1946
LJ953 Struck off charge 27.06.1946
LJ969 Struck off charge 31.08.1944
LJ972 Struck off charge 11.11.1946
LJ974 DBR 07.08.1944
LJ978 Struck off charge 31.08.1944
LJ984 Crash landed bad visibility near Reghaia 18.08.1944
LJ987 Struck off charge 14.10.1946
LK172 Struck off charge 14.08.1946
LK175 To 11FU Struck off charge 14.10.1946
LK177 Crashed on take off Blida 09.08.1944
LK178 Crashed on forced landing Beni Mered Algeria 18.08.1944
LK179 Struck off charge 05.06.1947
LK180 Struck off charge 30.10.1946
LK181 To 148sdn. 1944 Crashed on take off Brindisi 18.11.1944
LK182 Crashed on take off Blida DBR 07.08.1944
LK184 Struck off charge 05.06.1947
LK185 Struck off charge 09.10.1946
LK187 Crashed into sea NE of Castiglione 13.09.44