Halifax NR176 at Lissett airfield.
On the night of 22nd / 23rd January 1945 this 158 Squadron aircraft was to have been flown an operational flight to bomb Gelsenkirchen. While taxying at Lissett airfield at 19.10hrs prior to taking off this aircraft's tail wheel ran off the snow covered concrete dispersal area through snow on the grass and into a frozen rut in the grass. The tail wheel oleo broke and the tail wheel assembly collapsed.
Pilot - F/O Ronald Jack Hampshire RAFVR (179939).