Simon Glancey has submitted the following:Sgt Shield was the Navigator/Bomb Aimer aboard Short Stirling III BF463 WP-Q of 90 Squadron, which was shot down on a mission to Rostock. The Stirling was shot down by flak, and crashed at 00.19 hours into the Storebaelt channel, near the island of Sprogo, within the loss of all seven crew members.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3, page 120
Tony Hibberd has added the following:
Stirling BF463 WP-Q had departed Ridgewell at 2153 for Ops Rostock. It was engaged by 1/lei Flak Abt 985, hit and shot down. The aircraft crashed into Store Baelt nr Sprog at 0131 Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part 1 Dr Theo Boiten
Also killed in the same incident was Sgt. T.E. Hall
Norman Shields is remembered in Ashington on A17.01 (A17.27) and A17.43 and in Hirst H62.02 and H62.04
