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NOTE ON DATES: IMPORTANT: For consistency, the Date is given as the date the mission TOOK OFF since the precise time of a loss is not always certain. Take Off date is unambigous and fixed in the official records, but obviously in those cases where the incident occurred before midnight UK time, then the Take Off Date will be the same as the Incident Date. Of course, most Bomber Command missions flew through midnight, therefore a Luftwaffe claim against a plane - or a locally generated crash report - may record the incident as occurring on the day following our Take Off Date. Bear this in mind when cross-referencing to our Luftwaffe Victories by Name/Date Database and other Luftwaffe sources. In some cases other sources may quote the date following our date, using locally generated reports as their source. To add to the potential for confusion, remember to take into account a Luftwaffe recorded date will be in local time, 1 hour ahead of UK time. When we discover a validated Incident Date we change our record if necessary.



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#Name*First NamesTitleRankRAF Equivalent RankService No.BornNationalityRoleAwardsAir ForceCommandUnitDateofIncident *See NoteAircraftTypeSerialCodeVictories (Fighters)BaseTimeMission                        Incident                        FateCommemoratedPhoto (Click to Expand)Referring Database                        Notes                        Links/Archive Reports
1 DuguidJames ScottSergeantR/170623Age 23CanadaNavigatorRCAF26OTU1944-02-05WellingtonJA455KilledUnited Kingdom, Oxford (Botley) Cemetery, Plot I/2. Grave 158. Son Of James And Agnes Duguid, Of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Full details are here: Paradie Canadian Archive JA455
2 KinsmanWilliam CliftonFlight Sergeant427123Perth WA, 25 August 1923 Age 20AustraliaNavigator/BARAAF26OTU1944-02-05WellingtonJA455RAF WingTrainingCrashed on approachKilledUnited Kingdom, Oxford (Botley) Cemetery, Plot I/2. Grave 157. Epitaph: YOU ARE ALWAYS IN OUR THOUGHTS, FOR EVER IN OUR HEARTS. Roll of Honour: Perth WA. Remembered: Panel 125, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT. Remembered: Cenotaph Undercroft, State War Memorial, Kings Park WA. Remembered: Honour Avenues, Kings Park WA. Son Of George Clifton Kinsman And Lillian Trilby Kinsman, Of North Perth, Western Australia.


King's Park, Australia
RAAF Honour RollThe aircraft lost power while preparing to land and crashed into a wood at Fox Covert, about midway between Wing and Stewkley, Buckinghamshire. Two crew members were killed and three were injured in the crash. The crew members of JA455 were:
Sergeant Edward Townshend Bowe (423995) (Pilot) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 26 July 1945
Sergeant J Corrigan (1459646) (RAFVR) Injured
Sergeant James Scott Duguid (R/170623) (RCAF) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant William Clifton Kinsman (427123) (Navigator Bomb Aimer)
Sergeant Bryan Joseph O’Hare (428776) (Wireless Operator) Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 31 October 1945
Sergeant K L Pierce (1893930) (RAFVR) Injured

A Court of Inquiry into the accident found that: “Sergeant Bowe on returning from the exercise called base on the R/T at 2305 hours. At this time he instructed the Bomb Aimer to switch on the Nacelle tanks and the Bomb Aimer reported that this was done after going to the rear of the aircraft. At 2308 hours he was given instructions to reduce height to 1,500 feet, and go over to visual control which he acknowledged. Less than a minute after both engines cut and from eye witnesses accounts Bowe tried to put the aircraft down on the aerodrome. His undercarriage was locked down and approximately 28 degrees of flaps down. He lost height, downwind, crossing the left hand boundary close to the runway in use at approx 400 feet and then tried to turn on to the flare path. He did not have sufficient height to execute the necessary turn and the aircraft cashed in Fox Covert 200 yards short of the flare path. The fuel supply to the engines had been cut off. The main fuel supply Cocks CP and CS had been turned off by the Bomb Aimer, when the Nacelle tanks should have been turned on. He also had a lack of familiarity with the new Type of Nacelle fuel cock. “ Courtesy aviationmuseumwa.org.au

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