The story
On 1945-04-02, Pilot D G Cleghorn (Flying Officer, RCAF) service number J23864, flew Typhoon Ib serial MN581 for this duty: bombing operation. His mission was completed but aircraft failed to return. Circumstances of the aircraft loss: damaged by flak, engine seized, unable to make the Dutch border, crash landed at Nordhorn Germany. This aircraft was a part of squadron no. 439. The location for the map is Nordhorn Germany. Circumstances at the end of this mission for Cleghorn: prisoner of war (PoW).
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