IWM caption : Vertical aerial photograph showing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page_Halifax" class="extiw" title="en:Handley Page Halifax">Handley Page Halifax B Mark III</a>, LW127 'HL-F', of No. 429 Squadron RCAF, in flight over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondeville,_Calvados" class="extiw" title="en:Mondeville, Calvados">Mondeville</a>, France, after losing its entire starboard tailplane to bombs dropped by another Halifax above it. LW127 was one of 942 aircraft of Bomber Command despatched to bomb German-held positions, in support of the Second Army attack in the Normandy battle area (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Goodwood" class="extiw" title="en:Operation Goodwood">Operation GOODWOOD</a>), on the morning of 18 July 1944. The crew managed to abandon the aircraft before it crashed in the target area.
Royal Air Force official photographer
1944-07-18
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