Wreckage parts found at Sør-Fuglan. There is a possibility the two bombers collided in the air.
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Halifax Mk II Fuglan Hemnfjord
33 Halifax bombers took off this evening to participate in an attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz, moored at Fættenfjord north of Trondheim. The attack failed and a total of six Halifaxes with 42 men were lost. Two bombers crashed at Shetland. W1015 crashed at Remmingskjæret, Smøla and R9496 at Vikan, Stadsbygd.
10 Squadron RAF W1043 ZA-F 30/31st March 1942
S/Ldr.Frederick David Webster.(29) Sgt.Eric Archibald Hall.(30) F/Sgt.Harold Sydney Wheatley. (24) F/Sgt.Aubrey Charles Stevens-Fox. Sgt.Arnold Hague. P/O Samuel Robert Leney.(22) Sgt.Walter Hall.(27)
10 Squadron RAF W1044 ZA-D 30/31st March 1942
P/O Neil Ralph Blunden.(26 New Zealand). P/O Geoffrey Cyril Day.(28) Sgt. William Benjamin Eastwood.(25) Sgt.Reginald G.A. Richards. F/Sgt.Harold Franklin.(28 Canada). Sgt.Kenneth Coverdale May.(19) F/Sgt.Arthur Reginald Henman.(26 Canada)