Date:	Wednesday 30 August 1944
Time:	00:45 claim
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF
Registration:	LL947
MSN:	BH-W
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	8 km East of Laholm near Halmstad -   Sweden
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Faldingworth UK
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Faldingworth at 21:00. Crashed cira 00:25 some 8 km E of Laholm near Halmstad, Sweden, after being abandoned. Fg Off Jones injured his back while landing by parachute in wooded country.

Crashed after being damaged by German fighter during bombing raid on Stettin. All bailed out successfully over Sweden:

Fg Off D I C Jones (Interned)
Sgt GE Bayless (Interned)
Sgt A W Hendry (Interned)
Flt Sgt J A Tovey RAAF (Interned)
Sgt V E Condon (Interned)
Sgt S MacFarlane (Interned)
Sgt J P Whitworth (Interned)

The aircraft had been intercepted by Feldwebel Gottfried Schneider of the 1./NJG 3, who had been scrambled from Insterburg (East Prussia) in Bf 110 G-4 D5+FH at 23:12 hrs.

- Falkenbergs Museum/Lars Wikander: De kom aldrog hem (1994)
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World 1944 Page 405.
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCKDRA_avro-lancaster-mk-i-ll-947-bh-w-gavia-26?guid=72482a7d-41e3-48c4-a4e4-560f16f70003
http://www.forcedlandingcollection.se/RAFe/RAF064-LL947.html
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
http://ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20Germany%20[1937%20Borders].pdf

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
13-Sep-2011 03:10	Uli Elch	Added
13-Sep-2011 06:04	Uli Elch	Updated [Date, Time, Narrative]
27-Dec-2011 05:50	Uli Elch	Updated [Total occupants, Source, Narrative]
28-Dec-2011 14:33	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type]
05-Jul-2016 16:55	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
17-Feb-2018 17:17	Nepa	Updated [Time, Operator, Destination airport]
05-Feb-2020 20:22	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Operator]
18-Jun-2021 17:33	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Source, Narrative]