Den 12. januar 1945 styrtede HAL LV998  i Flensborg Fjord ved Flensborg omkring her (Kilde: Svend Gram, se Øjenvidneberetning) under en
minelægningsoperation. Se Minelægningsområder - WALLFLOWER.

6 flyvere omkom og 1 flyver blev krigsfange.

Pilot Officer (Flight Engineer) John Pollard, 28 år, var søn af Joseph og Nancy Pollard, Brierfield, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
Han blev begravet på Kiel War Cemetery i TYSKLAND. (Kilde: CWGC)

3 flyvere fra HAL LV998 blev begravet i Aabenraa, 2 i Tyskland, 1 har ingen kendt grav og 1 mand blev krigsfange og ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre.

Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission. 7 flyvere.

On 12 January 1945 HAL LV998 crashed into the Flensborg Fjord near Flensburg about here. (Source: Svend Gram) on a minelaying operation.
See Minelaying areas - WALLFLOWER.  6 airmen perished and 1 airman became a prisoner of war.

Pilot Officer (Flight Engineer) John Pollard, 28, was the son of Joseph and Nancy Pollard, of Brierfield, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
He was buried in the Kiel War Cemetery in GERMANY. (Source: CWGC) He is remembered on The Walls of Names at
the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 227.

3 airmen from HAL LV998 were buried in Aabenraa, 2 in Germany, 1 has no known grave and 1 was captured and taken to German POW-Camps.

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 424 (Tiger) Squadron *  424 Squadron RCAF Association * 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron
Halifax *  Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum * Halifax Print and Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
This Halifax took off from RAF Skipton on Swale.  7 airmen.