Halifax LK765 damaged by flak, returned to East Moor airfield.
On the evening of 12th September 1944 415 Squadron were tasked with attacking
Wanna Eickel and a number of their aircraft were hit by flak over the target. All
were able to return home to East Moor, this aircraft was hit in the starboard wing
and damage was also done to the bomb doors, port outer nacelle and nose of the aircraft.
The landing time for this aircraft is not known and it may have been in the
early hours of the 13th September 1944.
Pilot - P/O Clarence A Chartier RCAF (J/87460), of Montreal, Ontario, Canada.
Flight Engineer - Sgt P Antrobus (Possibly later F/O P G Antrobus (110410)).
Navigator - Sgt J Harrison
Bomb Aimer - Sgt J Veales
WOp/AG - WO F Morrison
AG - Sgt D Hunt
AG - Sgt J Beharriell
"This officer has completed very many sorties involving attacks on a wide range of targets in Germany and Northern France. He has also completed
numerous minelaying operations. He is an outstanding captain whose skill, determination and devotion to duty have a fine example."
Clarence Chartier was born in Toronto in 1919. He was still a student when he enlisted in Montreal in April 1941 and he had been serving
in the Royal Canadian Artillery. He was Commissioned in 1944. He was recommended for the DFC on 22nd November 1944 after he had flown eighteen
operational flights. The award was effective from 5th July 1945 and was not presented until November 1949 in Montreal. This recommendation reads..