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
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.

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

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
26-Aug-2013 16:59	JINX	Added
10-Nov-2014 15:47	Unites	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
07-Jul-2016 17:55	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
15-Oct-2018 14:43	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
10-Nov-2020 20:28	Anon.	Updated [Narrative]
18-Jun-2021 19:04	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]
27-Jun-2022 14:13	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, Country]
27-Jun-2022 14:46	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]
02-Jul-2023 11:45	Anon.	Updated [[Location]]