Mosquito HX949 487 Squadron
Date: 25 February 1944
Crash: Moustier-sur-Sambre
F/O EH Barbet J14137 RCAF Pilot KIA
F/O PR Mitchell Navigator KIA
« The Mosquito machine crashed at about 21.30 hours on 24th February 1944 at Moustier, Belgium and both of the crew were killed in the crash. A Belgian police official who got to the scene before Germans took from one of the crew a packet containing milk tablets and a few escape photographs…. »
« The plane was shot down over the village of Moustier, falling on a house there, where it burnt. »