Date:	Saturday 29 July 1944
Time:	01:07 claim
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	90 Sqn RAF
Registration:	PB198
MSN:	WP-M
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Saulxures-lès-Bulgnéville (Vosges) -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Tuddenham
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Tuddenham at 21:50. Crashed at Saulxures-les-Bulgneville (Vosges), 3 km SW from the town of Bulgneville. All rest in the communal cemetery at Saulxures-les-Bulgneville:

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer John Donald Morton RCAF J/88266 : Commission Gazetted Friday 20 December, 1940) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Dennis James Ingram RAFVR 1711742 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Myron Fetchison RCAF J/88486 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Wilfred Jean Paul Huot RCAF R/159901 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Walter Charles Pomfret RAFVR 1392396 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Hugh Donald Hilts RCAF R/256204 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Edward Laverne Eitel RCAF R/191621 [Killed]

The aircraft was shot down by Hauptmann Hubert Rauh of the Stab II./NJG 4, who had taken off from Coulommiers airfield in Seine-et-Marne.

Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 360.http://aircrewremembered.com/morton-john.html
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=1444
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Aug-2013 17:53	JINX	Added
28-Jun-2016 12:48	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
31-Oct-2018 19:41	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
12-Jun-2021 09:21	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]
06-Apr-2024 10:00	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]