Lancaster NN695 Mk.I - Bombing Duisburg Germany - 1944-05-21 to 1944-05-22
Squadron: 619 (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1944-05-21
Completion Date: 1944-05-22
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Duisburg Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Dunholme Lodge
Take Off Time: 23:58:00
Squadron Code: PG-X
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Crash City: Near East Wretham airfield Norfolk.
Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
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War Diary Unavailable

6 Bomber Group May 21/22, 1944

23 Halifaxes from 428 and 433 Squadrons were ordered on a mining operation to Heligoland and the Frisian Islands. The crews were over the gardens at 15,000 feet, sowing 88@1000 lb mines. Richard Koval (6bombergroup.ca)

510 Lancasters and 22 Mosquitoes of 1, 3, 5 and 8 Groups carried out the first large raid on this target for a year. 29 Lancasters were lost, 5ยท5 per cent of the force.

The target was covered by cloud but the Oboe sky-marking was accurate and much damage was caused in the southern areas of the city. 350 buildings were destroyed and 665 seriously damaged but no other details of material damage are available. 124 people were killed. The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt

Lancaster Mk I NN695 PG-X

Aircraft was home-bound, when it was intercepted and shot down by an enemy intruder aircraft over England, and crashed at Wretham, Kent.

Pilot Officer S.B. Bandur, RCAF, Flying Officer(s) FJ Baker (RAFVR) RH Redshaw (RAFVR), Sergeant(s) LJ Richardson (RAFVR), KW Harmer (RAFVR), RA McKay (RAFVr) were killed. The Bomb Aimer, Sergeant K Leeson RAFVR survived the crash.

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