Halifax JB922 at Leeming airfield.

On 4th May 1943 this 408 Squadron aircraft was flown on an air-test. On landing at Leeming airfield at 15.00hrs in a crosswind the aircraft's tail wheel begun to shimmy, the aircraft then swung off the runway and the tail wheel ran through a hole on the grass and broke off.

Pilot - P/O Joseph Gaudias Albert Patry RCAF (J/17175).

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