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Date: | Wednesday 30 August 1944 |
Time: | 02:07 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 103 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | PB365 |
MSN: | PM-B |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Turnerstraße 43, Torney, Stettin, Pommern (now Turzyn, Szczecin, PL) -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Elsham Wolds |
Destination airport: | Stettin |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Elsham Wolds at 20:57 hrs for an operation against Stettin.
Hit by 2,3 and 6/schw Flak Abt 616, Schw, Hei. Flakbattr 200/III, 201/III and 210/III. Crashed
Turnerstrabe near 43 near railway station Stettin-Torney at 02:07.
The crew were intially buried at Stettin. Reinterred 8 October 1948.
Crew
Pilot: J/24260 Flt Lt Allan Patrick Forbes RCAF - Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Plot 6 Row D Grave 3.
2nd Pilot: J/26415 Fg Off Theodore Gorak (USA) RCAF - Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Plot 6 Row D Grave 2.
Flight Engineer: 1625077 Sgt Eric Hartley Gordon Jackson - Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Plot 6 Row D Joint Grave 7.
Navigator: 1578284 Flt Sgt Thomas William Ferguson - Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Plot 6 Row D Grave 6.
Bomb Aimer: J/27434 Fg Off Ben Ingard Kalheim RCAF - Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Plot 6 Row D Joint Grave 7.
Wireless Operator: 157539 Fg Off Leonard Harry Simpson - Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Plot 6 Row D Grave 5.
Mid Upper Gunner: 141395 Fg Off Norman John Stronell - Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Plot 6 Row D Grave 4.
Rear Gunner: R/217006 Flt Sgt Thomas Andrew Purvis RCAF - Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Plot 6 Row D Grave 1.
Sources:
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 404.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part Four - Theo Boiten
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
CWGC
Ancestry - RCAF Service Records
History of this aircraft
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JB527 |
103 Sqn RAF |
7 |
2 km northeast of Ahrensfelde, Brandenburg |
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Revision history:
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26-Aug-2013 16:59 |
JINX |
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10-Nov-2014 15:47 |
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07-Jul-2016 17:55 |
Red Dragon |
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15-Oct-2018 14:43 |
Nepa |
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10-Nov-2020 20:28 |
Anon. |
Updated [Narrative] |
18-Jun-2021 19:04 |
TigerTimon |
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27-Jun-2022 14:13 |
Ron Averes |
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27-Jun-2022 14:46 |
Ron Averes |
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02-Jul-2023 11:45 |
Anon. |
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