Date:	Wednesday 21 February 1945
Time:	23:00
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	626 Sqn RAF
Registration:	LM105
MSN:	UM-T2
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Mannesmann Stahlwerk at Duisburg-Huckingen, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Wickenby
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off at 19:29 hrs for a bombing operation against Duisburg.
Hit by a direct heavy flak hit during bomb run over target. Crashed engulfed in flames into the scrap yard of the Mannesmann Steal Works at Duisburg-Huckingen approximately 20 yards from the bank of the Rhine river. All on board were killed:

Pilot: 160639 F/O DOnald Rodger (RAF) / Reichswald Forest War Cemetery (NCO:1546621 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 14 December, 1943)
Navigator: 154889 F/O Roderick William Donner (RAF) / Reichswald Forest War Cemetery (NCO:1802542 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 11 April, 1944)
Air Bomber: J/35019 F/O Thomas Joseph O'Neil (RCAF) / Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Wireless Op / Air Gunner: 2215964 F/Sgt Colin Reginald Badger (RAF) / Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Flight Engineer: 1242133 Sgt Hugh Borthwick King (RAF) / Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Mid Upper Gunner: 3020215 Sgt Robert Thomson (RAF) / Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Rear Gunner: R/164403 WO1 Robert Stanley Pyatt (RCAF) / Nederweert cemetery, the Netherlands (initially buried Margraten)

Personnel records of Pyatt and O'Neil containing the crash report and post war investigation from RCAF / DND Canada archives.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=lm105&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_type=exact&search_only=
http://www.626-squadron.co.uk/lost.htm
SGLO database - https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/ahome/lossregister/results?sglo=T5282A
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
18-Feb-2021 16:15	tachel	Added
18-Feb-2021 16:24	tachel	Updated [Source]
18-Feb-2021 16:24	tachel	Updated [Narrative]
18-Feb-2021 16:25	tachel	Updated [Narrative]
18-Feb-2021 16:26	tachel	Updated [Source]
25-Jun-2022 14:24	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
30-Oct-2023 08:52	Rob Davis	Updated [[Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]]