Combat

Aircrews from 434 Squadron were involved in numerous air-to-air combats, subsequently a number of enemy aircraft were destroyed or damaged. Officially there had to be another witness other then the individual making the claim.
Unfortunately 434 did not escape these enemy engagements without suffering losses of their own, they would return to the airfield with a damaged aircraft as well dead or wounded members of their crew.


Crew 152 and WL-P (NG-497) were attacked by a night-fighter on 21 Feb. 1945, Mu-Ag F/Sgt. J.H. Taggert was seriously injured, and the W/Op P/O H.A. Davey was killed. ( see below - 1945 crew 152)

Photo - Collection of Flt Lt John Worthington Harder courtesy - The Harder family.

Note: I have added the crew #, pilot's name, air-gunners, date, target, enemy a/c, damage/claim from files in my possession indicated by the Tiff/Jpg #. When there is no Tiff/Jpg# then I used the U.K. Gov. website to obtain date and airgunner's name (see bottom of this page). I am linking the individuals to any photos on the site, also information when complete on 1943/1944 should appear like 1945.

  • 1943

  • 1944

  • 1945

  • Victories

    This page contains photo's and a number of full "Combat Reports" typed from original documents, this will give you an idea of content in these reports.

The U.K. Gov. has digitized many of thier "Combat Reports" and provided a search engine, which I found to be a trial & error to find individuals. So then a search by squadron found all files pertaining to 434 squadron, however I believe that numerous combat reports are not in thier database.

There is also a $7 (Canadian) fee per document, if they have duplicated the document twice (2 air-gunners) for the same combat report you may waste $7 for a copy of same report, they are aware of this problem and attempting to correct.

Here is the link... RAF Combat Reports Search