Halifax NA543 at Holme on Spalding Moor airfield.
During the afternoon of 25th October 1944 this 76 Squadron aircraft took off from Holme on Spalding Moor airfield at 12.26hrs with the crew tasked with flying an operational flight to bomb Essen. The crew released their bomb load onto the target area from 18,600 feet at 15.31hrs and landed normally at Holme on Spalding Moor airfield at 17.49hrs. After landing the crew began taxying the aircraft back around the airfield towards a dispersal point. At 17.51hrs the aircraft was being taxied too fast as it approached an area of the perimeter track that had had it's concrete relaid that day. A member of airfield staff was on duty to signal to crews of the danger but as this aircraft was travelling too quickly and the crew were not keeping an adequate lookout the pilot was unable to stop the aircraft before it ran onto the wet concrete. The port undercarriage leg collapsed when it became bogged down in the wet concrete.
Pilot - F/Sgt David Vincent Globe RAFVR (1454504).
Navigator - Sgt Brian Gallimore Johnson RAFVR (1674761).
Air Bomber - Sgt Albert George Mayo RAFVR (1586913).
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Sidney William Fry RAFVR (1728977).
Flight Engineer - Sgt Ivor Henry Schofield RAFVR (1593939).
Air Gunner - Sgt John Henry Griss RAFVR (1397565).
Air Gunner - Sgt George William Burt RAFVR 1433272).