29th January 1944
Tasking Berlin, Germany
collided with another aircraft
at 18000 ft NE of Berlin
L to R
Sgt Homfray Reece Gibbons RAF 1817726 - Rear Gunner (hand on knee)
ground crew
Sgt Roland Winder RAF 1081479 - Wireless Operator (seated white sweater)
M/Sgt William Wesley Mitchell USAFF 10601618 - Air Bomber (standing white sweater)
Sgt William Harold Clarke RAF 1685389 - Mid Upper Gunner
Sgt Edward Peter Hillyard RAF 1803216 - Flight Engineer (seated on spinner)
P/O Earl Dolan Nesbitt RCAF J/19481 - Navigator
F/Sgt Colin Gregory Phelps RAAF 416889 - Pilot
photograph courtesy of Christine Tillett