Brian Frederick Woods                      Updated: 12 JUN 2022

Airman: a035001.htm Surname: Woods Init: B F Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 192

P_link: p391.htm Plane: HAL MZ342 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d090245 Buried_d: b240845 C_link: c035.htm At_Next: Husby

Den 9. februar 1945 styrtede denne Halifax i Nordsøen i forbindelse med et bombeangreb på Politz
ved Stettin som flyet skulle støtte.
På hjemvejen kolliderede HAL MZ342 med en Lancaster, som ikke fik alvorlige skader, men HAL MZ342 styrtede ned. Hele besætningen blev dræbt. (Kilder: FAF og AOD)

Sgt Woods drev i land i strandlen 24 (her) den 21. august 1945. Begravelsen på Husby Kirkegård fandt
sted den 24. august 1945 ved cst. sognepræst C. Mygind. (FAF)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Brian Frederick Woods, 20 år, var søn af Charles Oliver Woods og
Violet Georgina Woods, Penge, Kent, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra HAL MZ342 blev begravet på Husby Kirkegård den 24. august 1945 og 1 i Esbjerg
den 22. februar 1946. 6 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. Se p391MACR.
Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission.  8 flyvere.

On 9 February 1945 this Halifax crashed into the North Sea in connection with a bombing raid
on Politz near Stettin - Szczecin which it was to support.
On the return flight HAL MZ342 collided with a Lancaster which was not seriously damaged, but
HAL MZ342 crashed. All of the crew perished. (Sources: FAF and AOD)

Sgt Woods was washed ashore about here on 21 August 1945. The burial in Husby Churchyard
took place on 24 August 1945. Acting Vicar C. Mygind officiated at the graveside ceremony. (FAF)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Brian Frederick Woods, 20, was the son of Charles Oliver Woods and
Violet Georgina Woods, of Penge, Kent, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P 269.

1 airman from HAL MZ342 was buried in Husby Churchyard on 24 August 1945 and 1 in Esbjerg on 22 February 1946. 6 airmen have no known grave.
See No.192 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * No. 192 Squadron - a specialist RCM (radio counter measures) squadron * Halifax Print * Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
Halifax * Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum * LAN-HAL
Halifax III MZ342 DT-B took off from RAF Foulsham at 19.41 hrs on 08 FEB 1945. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See p391MACR. 8 airmen.