Service number:

1453320

Nationality:

British (1801-present, Kingdom)

Bomber, Sergeant R.H. Makin was on June 11th, 1943 part of the crew of Handley Page Halifax JB785 (fellow crew members Pilot Officer George Racine Herbert, Sergeant Ernest Cassingham, Flight Sergeant Francis Greenwood, Sergeant Ronald Boone, Pilot Officer Archibald Wallace and Sergeant Frank Stewart) on a mission to Münster. The aircraft on the return flight at 02.40 hrs was shot down by Leutnant Werner Baake. The aircraft crashed at Giessenburg in the Netherlands. Pilot Officer Wallace and Sergeant Makin managed to escape by parachute. They were taken POW. The other crew members were killed and buried at Crooswijk.

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• - Halifax II JB785 - 35 Squadron RAF Bomber Command
  - Halifax JB785 (11/06/1943) | No. 35 Squadron
  - Accident Handley Page Halifax Mk II JB785, 12 Jun 1943
  

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