When NA337 crashed about a kilometer from shore, the tail section with Flight Seargent Thomas Weightman broke off. Weightman managed to deploy the life raft, but it inflated upside-down. Still he managed to get on the raft. The rest of the crew probably tried to swim to shore, but died of hypothermia in the cold lake water.
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Halifax NA337
NA337 had a crew of six: Flight Lieutenant A. Turnbull, DFC, pilot; Flight Lieutenant W.R. Mitchell, navigator; Flight Sergeant G.R. Tuckett, Bomb Aimer; Flight Sergeant A. Naylor, Radio Operator; Flight Sergeant G.A. Bassett, Flight Engineer; and Flight Sergeant T.H. Weightman, Air Gunner.