Halifax NA612 damaged by flak, returned to East Moor airfield.
On 14th October 1944 432 Squadron and 415 Squadron supplied aircraft for two raids on Duisburg, one during the day and the second overnight of the 14th / 15th October. 415 Squadron supplied seventeen aircraft for the first and twenty for the second operational flight. Halifax NA612 was flak damaged in one of the raids, believed to have been the first as it took off at around 06.20hrs. Upon landing at East Moor there was damage found to the port wing, aileron and flaps. It was quickly repaired and appears to have been used on the second raid of the same date.
Pilot - F/O B H Roberts RCAF (J/26439).
Flight Engineer - Sgt Dugald Cameron Matheson RAFVR (1574426).
Navigator - F/O E J Kelly RCAF (J/37184).
Bomb Aimer? - F/Sgt R G Switzer RCAF (R/180892).
Wireless Operator? - F/Sgt Ron V Mihell RCAF (R/184473).
Air Gunner? - F/Sgt J McConnell RCAF (R/255395).
Air Gunner - Sgt J G McLean RCAF (R/274622).
Air Gunner? - F/Sgt W D McPhee RCAF (R/190846).
Dugald Matheson was born in 1924 and received a commission to the rank of P/O on 21st November 1944 (188150). Postwar he remained in the RAF and was Commended for Valuable Service in the Air on 7th June 1951. He retired from the RAF on 2nd May 1972 in the rank of S/Ldr. He died in 1999 and is buried in the Innis-Na-Birlinn Cemetery near Fort William, Scotland.
Ron Mihell one of three brothers who served in the RCAF in WW2 with a fourth in the Navy.