INDENTPilot Officer Frederick William Shuttle, Navigator, No. 640 Squadron (Halifaxes) was briefed for a raid on Nuremberg, 30/31 March 1944 but failed to return when his aircraft was shot down by a German night fighter at Wolferbutt near Eisenach. Three of the crew baled out safely from the rear hatch -- the Canadian pilot, severely injured, issued the order to leave the aircraft before he died -- the Flight Engineer was dead or dying -- Pilot Officer Shuttle, also badly injured fell across the forward hatch preventing its use -- the seventh crew member, Flying Officr Corcoran, an Australian from Queensland, was last seen by the side of his injured comrade (Shuttle), although he had time to escape -- they lie together in the Berlin War Cemetery

Flying Officer Horace Theodore Wardle, Pilot, No. 132 Operational Training Unit was killed, 12 August 1944 when his Beaufighter crashed at Tynninghome, Lincolnshire while on an air firing exercise