Date:	Wednesday 17 January 1945
Time:
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF
Registration:	PD257
MSN:	BH-O
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Kleinfurra -   Germany
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Faldingworth UK
Destination airport:	RAF Faldingworth

Narrative:
Mission to Zeitz. Took off from RAF Faldingworth at 1748 hrs to bomb the Braunkohle-Benzin synthetic-oil plant. Crashed at Kleinfurra some 10 km SSW from the centre of Nordhausen. Those who died were buried in Kleinfurra Friedhof but since the cessation of hostilities, their remains have been taken to Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery.

Crew:-
Pilot : Warrant Officer Roman Bakinowski PAF P/780661 [PoW]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Kazimierz Tomasik PAF [PoW]
Navigator : Flying Officer Franciszek Matuszewski PAF P/2722 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Stanislaw Seidengart PAF [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Mikolaj Piotrowski PAF P/794471 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Mieczyslaw Sasin PAF [PoW]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Antoni Smoczkiewicz PAF P/706697 [Killed]

Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1945 Page 50
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database.

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
29-Aug-2013 15:22	JINX	Added
19-Feb-2015 17:57	Jixon	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, ]
21-May-2016 16:15	Red Dragon	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
17-Feb-2018 17:20	Nepa	Updated [Operator, ]
05-Feb-2020 20:23	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator, ]