Date:	Saturday 17 March 1945
Time:
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	576 Sqn RAF
Registration:	PA265
MSN:	UL-O2
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Gostenhof (Nürnberg) (Bayern) -   Germany
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Fiskerton
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Mission to Nürnberg. Took off from RAF Fiskerton at 1725 hrs. Those who died rest in Durnbach War Cemetery.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Sergeant John Francis Ryan RAAF Aus/419142 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Flight Sergeant John Edward Taylor RAFVR 1596665 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Alan William Garnet RCAF J/95311 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Keith Leonard Challis RAFVR 1396938 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant David Walter Edward Swift RAFVR 1867568 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant John Symonds RAFVR 1883370 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant H A Hall RAF [PoW]

Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1925 Page 135.
https://www.backtonormandy.org/maps/maps-1945/march-45/225-overview-day-by-day-1945-03/3364-17-03-45.html
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

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18-Aug-2013 03:11	JINX	Added
31-May-2016 17:02	Red Dragon	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
31-May-2016 17:31	Red Dragon	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
14-Nov-2017 19:07	Anon.	Updated [Narrative, ]
29-Jun-2018 06:53	ehren69	Updated [Location, Destination airport, Narrative, ]
07-Nov-2018 18:52	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
28-Oct-2019 17:09	Uli Elch	Updated [Operator, Location, ]
28-Oct-2019 18:30	Uli Elch	Updated [Narrative, ]
01-Nov-2019 20:06	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
16-Mar-2024 07:30	Rob Davis	Updated