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Date: | Saturday 11 July 1942 |
Time: | |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 207 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | L7543 |
MSN: | EM-Z |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | U-Boat Pens, Danzig -
Germany
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Bottesford |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Missing/failed to return from raid, presumed to have crashed in the target area.
Crew:
Pilot:1163246 Flt Sgt George Henry Duke - Marlbork Commonwealth War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. B. 12-14.
Pilot:Flt Sgt 1154131 Kenneth Harry Hart - Marlbork Commonwealth War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. B. 12-14.
Observer:929946 Sgt 929946 Frank Routledge - Marlbork Commonwealth War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. B. 12-14.
Observer:1072974 Sgt Harold Arthur Storey - Marlbork Commonwealth War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. B. 12-14.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:127160 Plt Off Kenneth James Shirley - Marlbork Commonwealth War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. B. 12-14 (NCO:908422 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 25 August, 1942)
Air Gunner:923995 Flt/Sgt 923995 David Adrian Boldy - Marlbork Commonwealth War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. B. 12-14.
Air Gunner:924150 Flt/Sgt Allan Percival Cullerne - Marlbork Commonwealth War Cemetery Coll. grave 3. B. 12-14.
Sources:
1. Air Britain RAF Aircraft L1000 - N9999
2.
http://lancaster-archive.com/lanc_unknowncrashsites.pdf 3.
http://www.lostbombers.co.uk/bomber.php?id=2350 4. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.rowery.olsztyn.pl/wiki/miejsca/1945/pomorskie/malbork]
5.
http://aircrewremembered.com/duke-george.html 6.
http://www.sandycamelmediaproductions.co.uk/id108.html 7.
http://www.207squadron.rafinfo.org.uk/lancasters/207lancs_losses.htm 8. CWGC
9. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
8 April 1942 |
R5498 |
207 Sqn RAF |
0 |
North-South boundary of RAF Bottesford, Lincolnshire, England |
|
w/o |
18 October 1943 |
LM326 |
207 Sqn RAF |
0 |
near Reinerbeck, Aerzen, Niedersachsen |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
22-Jun-2008 00:26 |
JINX |
Added |
10-Mar-2013 14:30 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |
01-Jan-2015 18:59 |
Dr. John Smih |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
20-Oct-2017 15:03 |
w.bleumink |
Updated [Narrative] |
11-Feb-2018 18:10 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
11-Feb-2018 18:10 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Date] |
01-Nov-2018 09:07 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
11-Jul-2023 06:40 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [[Operator, Destination airport, Operator]] |