Halifax NP747 damaged in the air, further damaged at Linton on Ouse airfield.
During the morning of 14th October 1944 this 408 Squadron aircraft was flown on an operational flight to bomb Duisburg and took off from Linton on Ouse airfield at 06.45hrs. The crew released their bomb load onto the target area from 17.500 feet at 08.52hrs and the aircraft is vaguely recorded in the squadron records as sustaining unspecified flak damage. Despite this, the crew returned to base without incident, landing at Linton on Ouse at 11.59hrs. Over the course of the next half an hour the crew taxied the aircraft back to a dispersal point in a strong wind. At 12.30hrs the aircraft had arrived on a slightly sloping dispersal point and although the pilot applied the brakes they did not hold the aircraft. It ran down a slight slope and into a ditch just off the dispersal where the undercarriage collapsed.
Pilot - P/O Truman Verdun Barber RCAF (J/86279).
Navigator - F/O J E McInerney RCAF (J/35222).
Air Bomber - F/O G D McKay RCAF (J/28933).
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - P/O J C Reid RCAF (J/86930).
Flight Engineer - Sgt Fred Shires RAFVR (1121174).
Air Gunner - Sgt J A Cadarette RCAF (R/203858).
Air Gunner - Sgt C Humphries RCAF (2345A).