Date:	Friday 26 June 1942
Time:	02:27
Type:	Avro Manchester Mk I
Owner/operator:	50 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L7289
MSN:	VN-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Burg-Grambke in Bremen -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Machester L7289: Takeoff at 23:20 hrs for the third 1000 bomber raid, this time the target being Bremen.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and hit by light (leichte) & heavy (schwere) Flak; crashed into a field at Grambke.
Captured German documents revealed that the aircraft was shot down at 02:00 hrs on 26/066/1942 and crashed near Bremen. Initially the crew were buried in Waller Friedhof. After hostilities they were reinterred in Becklingen War Cemetery:
Crew:
Pilot:NZ41361 Sgt John Charles Roy RNZAF - killed.
2nd Pilot: Aus.12419 Sgt Jasper Stormond Peters RAAF - killed.
Nav.: Aus.406318 Sgt Robert Leslie Hugall RAAF - killed.
WOp/AG: Aus.402622 Sgt Lawrence Chase Thompson RAAF - killed.
WOp/AG: Aus.404903 Sgt Neil Malcolm Hardy RAAF - killed.
AG: Aus.403194 Sgt James William Lindsay RAAF - killed.
AG: Aus.403813 Sgt Edgar Griffits Johnson RAAF - killed.

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=L7289
Air Britain RAF Aircraft L1000 - N9999
RAAF FATALITIES IN SECOND WORLD WAR AMONG RAAF PERSONNEL SERVING ON ATTACHMENT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SQUADRONS AND SUPPORT UNITS
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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-May-2008 12:57	JINX	Added
23-Jan-2018 16:28	Red Dragon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
28-Jun-2018 12:49	ehren69	Updated [Location, Destination airport, Narrative, ]
12-Nov-2018 21:02	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Operator, ]
01-May-2020 17:37	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
21-Oct-2023 18:05	Nepa	Updated