AM 151 SOE Operation Crupper IV 3 Greenfinch
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Særmelding BBC : "Fisken liker seg best på land"Code : NO1 Signal bakke: L Signal fly: ?
CON PAK M HD CRS SPD LAND . MERKNAD
13 500 190 140 03:49
13 04:20
Squad: RAF 298/644
1. P/O Mutton J B Halifax III NA104 8A-O
2. W/O Ussel L E J Halifax III MZ969 2P-O
Out: 20.02.45 17:13/45 DROP 22:08/01:35
- 1
- P/O Mutton J B (RCAF) Pilot
- P/O Lee T E Navigator
- F/S Sewell J Air bomber
- F/S Poulter O WOP/Air
- F/S Nicholson J P Air gunner
- Sgt McFarlane T Flight engeneer
- 2
- W/O Ussell L E J Pilot
- P/O Keedy D J Nav
- F/S Fidler H J A/B
- F/S Graham F J W/Op
- F/S Thoms G E A/G
- F/S Daffon R J F/Eng
- 25.02.1945 Halifax III 8A "O" NA104, 17:15 03:50 SOE Crupper 4., 60.24.15N 09:58.30E Sucessful, good reception. Excellent visibility. Run into DZ where we seen reception as briefed. Drom made from 500 AGL on 190 and 140 ias. Load believed to have fallen east of lights. Chutes opened. Vis. very good.
- 25/26.02.1945 Halifax III 2P "O" 17:45 04:20 Gt Dunmow SOE Operation Norway Crupper 4. Not completed - no reception. Pos of DZ 60 24 15N 09 58 30E . Route same as above. Vis limited. Heavy flak encountered and port fin holed and hydraulic pipe line severed. Landed at Great Dunmow.
We arrived in DZ area 22:23 and saw village off AADLER but saw no reception at all even at ALT point, we flew around some twenty minutes, weather was perfect and vis. 20 miles. Weather in and out was bad. EUREKA at ALT not picked up - Crupper 34.
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