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Hi do you have any information on the fallen from the 487 squadron over Amsterdam?Mission: Essen
Date: 03/04th April 1943 (Saturday/Sunday)
Time: 21.45 hrs.
Unit: No.408 Squadron (Goose) R.C.A.F.
Type: Halifax II
Serial: HR713
Coded: EQ-F
Location: Lake Ijssel, north east of Amsterdam.
Pilot: F/O (Acting Fl/Lt) Robert Hodgson Perry Gamble J/9337 R.C.A.F. Age 23. Missing
Fl/Eng: Sgt. Robert Walton Barker 9889712 R.A.F.V.R. Age: ? Missing
W/Op/Air gunner: P/O Charles Noola Black 405437 R.A.A.F. Age 23. Missing
Nav/Bomber: Sgt. Albert James (Jimmie) Hawkins 919537 R.A.F.V.R. Age 25. Missing
Nav/Bomber: W/O 11 Donald Leslie Jarrett T/90781 R.C.A.F. Age 23. Missing
W/Op/Air/Gnr: P/O Kenneth Septimus McColl 401712 R.A.A.F. Age 30. Missing
Air/Gnr: F/O Edmond Rothwell Ray J/11851 R.C.A.F. Age 26. Missing
Reason for loss:
Shot down by a German night fighter.
Update: Part of a huge raid on Essen. 325 Lancaster's, 113 Halifax's - led by 10 OBOE Mosquito's. HR713 was shot down by Oblt. Eberhard Garddiewski (3 victories) from 12./NJG1 at a height of 4000 metres.
The aircraft reported to crash into the North Sea 60 km's North West of Vlieland at 00.47hrs.