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| Date: | Monday 18 January 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ED318 |
| MSN: | KM-X |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
| Location: | Over the North Sea - Exact position unknown -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Waddington |
| Berlin |
Aircraft took of from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire at 17h09 for a bombing mission to Berlin Germany. It was one of 13 RAF bombers shot down by night fighters over the North Sea. No wreckage or remains were ever found.
Crew:
Pilot: 778483 Sgt Richard Calcutt SRAF
Flight Engineer: 778210 Sgt Colin Patrick Mitchell SRAF
Navigator: 1023445 Sgt Stanley Allen RAFVR
Bomb Aimer: 953431 Sgt Richard Dowding Perkins RAFVR
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: R/75877 WO2 Roy Cook Fenton RCAF
Air Gunner: 1610166 Sgt Robert Douglas Bradbury RAFVR
Air Gunner: 1266105 Sgt Vincent Lawrence RAFVR
Sources:
44 Sqn wartime diary from The National Archives UK
Personnel record of R/75877 WO2 Roy Cook Fenton RCAF from Ancestry.ca
https://aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=75877&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
https://aircrewremembered.com/calcutt-richard.html
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ed318&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=ED318
https://caspir.warplane.com/pdoc/pn/600006215/
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1269923
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 11-Nov-2024 08:53 | tacchel | Added |
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