99 RAF Squadron’s Vickers Wellington T2984-LN-B aircraft, crewed by six airmen, took flight from RAF Waterbeach, in Cambridgeshire, on a bombing operation over
Essen, Germany.
The Wellington is believed to have been shot down over enemy-held territory, crashing near Molenbeersel in Belgium. Three members of the aircrew
survived the crash, but were taken POW; the other three aircrew perished in the crash.
One of the captured POW airmen, RCAF Sergeant Harry Malcolm ROBERTSON, died on 30 April 1942, after he was shot while trying to escape from a German prison camp at Weimar.
The wreckage of T2984, laying near Molenbeersel (Pictures: Luchtvaart Geschiedenis)
