Date:	Saturday 17 March 1945
Time:
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	467 Sqn RAAF
Registration:	PD231
MSN:	PO-T
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Aufstetten near Würzburg (Bayern) -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Waddington
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Mission to Wurzburg. 2. Took off from RAF Waddington at 1746. Crashed, when roughly five minutes flying time from the target, in a wood some 500 meters SW of Aufstetten and 4 km NE of the small town of Rottingen and 7 km NNW from Creylingen. Those who died are buried in Durnbach War Cemetery.

Crew :-
Pilot : Flying Officer Edwin William Thomas RAAF Aus/410180 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Thomas Helstrip RAFVR 1594806 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer George Moses RAAF Aus/432534 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant James Love Isles RAAF Aus/424866 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Warrant Officer Maxwell Ernest Margules RAAF Aus/423801 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Ronald William Henry Smith RAFVR 1603454 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant B A Davies RAF [PoW]

1. Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
2. http://www.backtonormandy.org/maps/maps-1945/march-45/225-overview-day-by-day-1945-03/3364-17-03-45.html
3. aircrewremembered.com
4. Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1945 Page 134.
5. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
29-Aug-2013 15:13	JINX	Added
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31-May-2016 17:02	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
28-Oct-2019 17:13	Uli Elch	Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative, ]
01-Nov-2019 20:06	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator, ]
16-Mar-2024 07:29	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]