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Wasn't it Dwight D. Eisenhower who said that the most important factors in winning the war were: The C-47 Dakota, te Willy's Jeep and...

Hi everyone, another question: on 24 may 1943 a Halifax started but couldn't leave the runway. It crashed at the end and the crew got...

Hi Wurger, Thanks again for your untiring digging. I live near the place LQ-M crashed. And because I know some of the local people who...

The Y-device system, was a single-beam electronic distance measuring system used to aid aircraft navigation. In Germany it was the...

I have some questions on certain abbreviations I can't decipher. In june 1943 405 Halifax P.F.F. squadron was training between sorties...

As my research is progressing, I can mention that on the first raid on Hamburg as part of Operation Gomorrah on 25 july 1943, in the...

Geoffrey Sinclair, thank you very much. You mention the fitting of H2S on this airplane. Is that certain? Or just possible? Wow...

My pleasure .. :) Here you are a pic of the HR861 also marked as the Mk.II Series IA ... so that's the closest one to your kite. The...

The closet one I could find is the Handley Page Halifax Mk. II Series IA (Serial No. HR871) of the No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*B"...

HR864 would have rolled off the production line with the standard triangular fin shape without incorporating modifications to it to aid...

HR864 was delivered on 14 May 1943, first entry on its card is dated 31 May, to 405 squadron on 25 June and lost on 25 July. It is...

Thank you foor the extra info. I was under the impression that H2S could be found in Halifax III's. I'll keep on reading about the II...

Hi Nnuumannn, I just found that on a raid on Cologne on 28 june '43 LQ-O sufferd a heavy explosion underneath the arcraft and the pilot...

Hi Wurger, thank you so much for your answer. I'm writing a book on the mentioned crash and want to have my facts straight. It's a...

Hi, I'm researching the crash of Halifax II LQ-M of RCAF 405 Sqn on 25 july 1943 at Ten Boer Netherlands. The serial number was HR864...