Lancaster (Total: 7,377, Canadian: 396, Group 394)
Avro Lancaster
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
The Avro Lancaster is a British Second World War heavy bomber. It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary of the Handley Page Halifax, both bombers having been developed to the same specification, as well as the Short Stirling, all three aircraft being four-engined heavy bombers adopted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the same wartime era.
The Lancaster has its origins in the twin-engine Avro Manchester which had been developed during the late 1930s in response to the Air Ministry Specification P.13/36 for a capable medium bomber for "world-wide use". Originally developed as an evolution of the Manchester (which had proved troublesome in service and was retired in 1942), the Lancaster was designed by Roy Chadwick and powered by four Rolls-Royce Merlins and in one version, Bristol Hercules engines. It first saw service with RAF Bomber Command in 1942 and as the strategic bombing offensive over Europe gathered momentum, it was the main aircraft for the night-time bombing campaigns that followed. As increasing numbers of the type were produced, it became the principal heavy bomber used by the RAF, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving within the RAF, overshadowing the Halifax and Stirling. Wikipedia
Lancaster Bomber
WikipediaLancaster Mk.III serial JB113
s/n JB113
Avro
JB 113
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB114
s/n JB114
Q
Avro
JB 114
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
Delivered to No. 83 Sqn (OL-Q) Aug 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 1/2 Jan 1944 (Mason). Robertson has 2/3 Jan. 230 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB115
s/n JB115
G
Avro
JB 115
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB116
s/n JB116
R
Avro
JB 116
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
Delivered to No. 61 Sqn (QR-R) Aug 1943. Transferred to No. 9 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing on operation to St Leu d'Esserent 7/8 Jul 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB117
s/n JB117
C
Avro
JB 117
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB118
s/n JB118
Avro
JB 118
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB119
s/n JB119
F
Avro
JB 119
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB120
s/n JB120
D
Avro
JB 120
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF frm 27 august 1943, coded "LQ*D". Failed to return from operation over Brunswick on 28 September 1943, believed to have come down in North Sea. All 7 crew still listed as missing in action.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Hanover Germany 1943-09-27 to 1943-09-28
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden lodge
Battle of Berlin
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF frm 27 august 1943, coded "LQ*D". Failed to return from operation over Brunswick on 28 September 1943, believed to have come down in North Sea. All 7 crew still listed as missing in action.
1943-September-28 KIA RAFVR Warrant Officer Walter Eric Goldspink 2022-04-20
1943-September-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Stuart Herman Long 2022-07-27 1943-September-28 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Clair Lowther 2022-07-27
1943-September-28 KIA RAAF Flt Sergeant Graham Sydney Read 2022-04-20 1943-September-28 KIA RAFVR Stanley John Slade 2022-04-20 1943-September-28 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Bruce Anderson St Louis 2022-07-27
1943-September-28 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Temple Dawson Trippe 2022-07-27 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB121
s/n JB121
Avro
JB 121
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB122
s/n JB122
H
Avro
JB 122
Merlin
Known Units: 100;625
Delivered to No. 100 Sqn (HW-T) Aug 1943. Transferred to No. 625 Sqn (CF-H) Oct 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 30/31 Jan 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB123
s/n JB123
D
Avro
JB 123
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB124
s/n JB124
Avro
JB 124
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB125
s/n JB125
Avro
JB 125
Merlin
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last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB126
s/n JB126
Avro
JB 126
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB127
s/n JB127
Avro
JB 127
Merlin
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last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB128
s/n JB128
Avro
JB 128
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB129
s/n JB129
G
Avro
JB 129
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
Delivered to No. 61 Sqn (QR-G) 20 Aug 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 24/25 Mar 1944. 217 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB130
s/n JB130
Avro
JB 130
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB131
s/n JB131
Avro
JB 131
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB132
s/n JB132
Avro
JB 132
Merlin
Known Units: ;61
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB133
s/n JB133
Avro
JB 133
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB134
s/n JB134
G
Avro
JB 134
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB135
s/n JB135
Avro
JB 135
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB136
s/n JB136
Avro
JB 136
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB137
s/n JB137
Avro
JB 137
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB138
s/n JB138
J
Avro
JB 138
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB139
s/n JB139
V
Avro
JB 139
Merlin
Known Units: 617 Sqn
Delivered to No. 49 Sqn Aug 1943. Transferred to No. 617 Sqn (KC-X, later KC-V) Sep 1943. Took part in the Tallboy attack on the Saumur Tunnel 8/9 Jun 1944. Missing on daylight operation to Brest 5 Aug 1944. 364 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Brest France 1944-08-05 to 1944-08-05
617 (B) Sqn (RAF) Woodhall Spa
The aircraft (KC-V), piloted by Flying Officer D Cheney RCAF, had left Woodhall Spa at 9:49 for a daylight raid on the U-boat pens at Brest, France . It had successfully dropped its Tallboy bomb when it was hit by flak and extensively damaged, and the navigator and wireless operator were severely injured. Cheney ordered the crew to bail out. The aircraft crashed into the sea at Douarnenez Bay . Three of the crew were killed.
There were two Canadians in the crew, Flying Officer Don Cheney and Warrant Officer 2nd Class KR Porter. Cheney landed in the water, and was picked up by a fishing boat manned by the Maquis who held off the Germans with machine-gun fire. Porter landed safely and was also collected by the Maquis. Both were later put in touch with the US 5th Armoured Division at the end of August and returned to England. Cheney then returned to Canada. The other members of the crew were all in the RAF. Pilot Officer R Welch was shot by the Germans as he descended by parachute, Flying Officer WN Watt and Flight Sergeant EH Pool were killed and Flight Sergeant J Rosher evaded capture and Flight Sergeant A Curtis was taken prisoner. He was released from a camp near Brest by the US 8th Infantry Division in September.
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB140
s/n JB140
Avro
JB 140
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB141
s/n JB141
Avro
JB 141
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB142
s/n JB142
P
Avro
JB 142
Merlin
Known Units: 166 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB143
s/n JB143
L
Avro
JB 143
Merlin
Known Units: ;50
Delivered to No. 50 Sqn (VN-L) Aug 1943. Aircraft was ditched on a mining sortie 29/30 Sep 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB144
s/n JB144
N
Avro
JB 144
Merlin
Known Units: 617
Delivered to No. 49 Squadron August 1943 and did one operation to Berlin, then transferred to No. 617 Sqn (KC-N). Missing on the raid on the Dortmund-Ems Canal on 15/16 Sept 1943. 37 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Dortmund-Ems Canal Germany 1943-09-15 to 1943-09-16
617 (B) Sqn (RAF) Coningsby
The aircraft, KC-N, piloted by Flight Lieutenant LG Knight, DSO MID, RAAF, was attempting to bomb the Dortmund-Ems Canal near Ladbergen, Germany but hit trees while in the target area and was seriously disabled. They hoped to be able to nurse the aircraft back to Britain, but its condition deteriorated and Knight held the aircraft steady while the crew bailed out but then the aircraft exploded when he attempted to crash land near den Ham, Netherlands .
Of the two Canadians in the crew, one, Flight Sergeant FE Sutherland evaded capture and the other, Flight Sergeant HE O'Brien was captured and became a PoW. Of the other crew members, Pilot Officer HS Hobday, Flying Officer EC Johnson DFC RAAF, Sergeant LC Woolard and Pilot Officer EG Kellow DFM RAAF evaded capture and Pilot Officer HE Grayston was taken prisoner.
With the exception of Woolard, this was the crew who dropped the UPKEEP bomb that broke the Eder Dam during Operation Chastise, (the Dams Raid of 16/17 May 1943).
1943-September-16 PoW Pilot Officer Raymond Ernest Grayston 2025-05-15 1943-September-16 Evader RAFVR Flying Officer Harold Sidney Hobday DFC 2025-05-15 1943-September-16 Evader RAFVR Flying Officer Edward Cuthbert Johnson DFC 2025-05-15 1943-September-16 Evader RAAF Sergeant Robert George Thomas Kellow DFM 2025-05-15 1943-September-16 KIA RAAF Flight Lieutenant Leslie Gordon Knight DSO, MiD 2025-05-15 1943-September-16 PoW RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Henry Earl O'Brien 2025-05-15 1943-September-16 Evader RCAF Flight Sergeant Frederick Sutherland 2025-05-15 1943-September-16 Evader Leslie Charles Woolard 2025-05-15 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB145
s/n JB145
D
Avro
JB 145
Merlin
Known Units: 166 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB146
s/n JB146
Avro
JB 146
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB147
s/n JB147
Avro
JB 147
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB148
s/n JB148
Avro
JB 148
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB149
s/n JB149
Avro
JB 149
Merlin
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last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB150
s/n JB150
Avro
JB 150
Merlin
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last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB151
s/n JB151
Avro
JB 151
Merlin
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last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB152
s/n JB152
Avro
JB 152
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB153
s/n JB153
Avro
JB 153
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB154
s/n JB154
Avro
JB 154
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB155
s/n JB155
Avro
JB 155
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn;7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB174
s/n JB174
S
Avro
JB 174
Merlin
Known Units: ;97
Delivered to No. 97 Sqn (OF-S) 28 Aug 1943. Missing on operation to Hanover 8/9 Oct 1943. 68 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB175
s/n JB175
Avro
JB 175
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB176
s/n JB176
K
Avro
JB 176
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB177
s/n JB177
Avro
JB 177
Merlin
Known Units: ;156
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB178
s/n JB178
V
Avro
JB 178
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB179
s/n JB179
Avro
JB 179
Merlin
Known Units: ;156
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB180
s/n JB180
H
Avro
JB 180
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB181
s/n JB181
Avro
JB 181
Merlin
Known Units: ;7
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB182
s/n JB182
Q
Avro
JB 182
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*O". Failed to return from operation over Berlin on 24 November 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Berlin Germany 1943-11-24 to 1943-11-24
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Battle of Berlin
405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus), Pathfinder Force. Lancaster aircraft JB 182 failed to return from night operations against Berlin, Germany. Six RAF crew members, F/Os H.T. Clarke, E.J. Moss, Sergeants R.N.P. Critchlow, J.E. Goss, A.P. Hateley, and FS W.C. Higgs were also killed.Lancaster Mk.III serial JB183
s/n JB183
W
Avro
JB 183
Merlin
Known Units: PNTU; PNTU; PNTU
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*R".last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB184
s/n JB184
Avro
JB 184
Merlin
Known Units: ;7
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB185
s/n JB185
Y
Avro
JB 185
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB186
s/n JB186
Q
Avro
JB 186
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB187
s/n JB187
R
Avro
JB 187
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB188
s/n JB188
S
Avro
JB 188
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*S". Failed to return from operation over Magdeburg on 22 January 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Magdeburg germany 1944-01-21 to 1944-01-21
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Battle of Berlin
648 aircraft - 42 I Lancasters, 224 Halifaxes, 3 Mosquitoes - on the first major raid to this target. The German controller again followed the progress of the bomber stream across the North Sea and many night fighters were in the stream before it crossed the German coast. The controller was very slow to identify Magdeburg as the target but this did not matter too much because most of the night fighters were able to stay in the bomber stream, a good example of the way the Tame Boar tactics were developing, 57 aircraft - 35 Halifaxes, 22 Lancasters - were lost, 8Ã"šÃ‚·8 per cent of the force; it is probable that three quarters of the losses were caused by German night fighters. The Halifax loss rate was I5.6 per cent!
The heavy bomber casualties were not rewarded with a successful attack. Some of the Main Force aircraft now had H2S and winds which were stronger than forecast brought some of these into the target area before the Pathfinders' Zero Hour. The crews of 27 Main Force aircraft were anxious to bomb and did so before Zero Hour. The Pathfinders blamed the fires started by this early bombing, together with some very effective German decoy markers, for their failure to concentrate the marking. No details are available from Magdeburg but it is believed that most of the bombing fell outside the city. An R.A.F. man who was in hospital at Magdeburg at the time reports only, 'bangs far away'.
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Lancaster aircraft JB 188 missing from night operations over Madgeburg, Germany. Pilot Officer K.C. Wilson, Flight Lieutenant L.G. Speyer, Sergeants W. Good (RAF), J.H. Paul (RAF), R.rR,Stevens, B.R.Morrison and N. Pyke (RAF) were killed.
1944-January-22 Failed to Return failed to return from operation over Magdeburg 2019-08-20
1944-January-21 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Wilfred Good 2024-05-02 1944-January-21 KIA RCAF Sergeant Bruce Ralph Morrison 2024-05-02 1944-January-21 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Jack Hastings Paul 2024-05-02 1944-January-21 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Pyke,Norman Pyke 2024-05-02 1944-January-21 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Lloyd George Speyer 2024-05-03 1944-January-21 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Reginald Ralph Stevens 2024-05-02 1944-January-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Kenneth Carl Wilson 2024-05-03 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB189
s/n JB189
Avro
JB 189
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB190
s/n JB190
Avro
JB 190
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB191
s/n JB191
Avro
JB 191
Merlin
Known Units: ;97
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB216
s/n JB216
Avro
JB 216
Merlin
Known Units: ;156
Delivered to No. 156 Sqn Sep 1943. Missing from operation to Berlin 16/17 Dec 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB217
s/n JB217
Avro
JB 217
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB218
s/n JB218
Avro
JB 218
Merlin
Known Units: ;97
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB219
s/n JB219
Avro
JB 219
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB220
s/n JB220
O
Avro
JB 220
Merlin
Known Units: 97
Delivered to No. 97 Sqn (OF-O) from No. 32 MU 9 Sep 1943. Missing on operation to Hanover 18/19 Oct 1943. 55 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB221
s/n JB221
Avro
JB 221
Merlin
Known Units: ;97
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB222
s/n JB222
M
Avro
JB 222
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*G" and "LQ*M". failed to return from operation over Leipzig on 4 December 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
1943-December-04 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 George Warburton Acorn 2024-11-01 1943-December-04 KIA RAFVR James Anderson 2024-11-02 1943-December-04 KIA RAF Flt. Lieutenant George Belcher 2024-11-11 1943-December-04 KIA RAFVR Flying Officer Norman Harvey Bowring 2024-11-16 1943-December-04 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant George Albert Davis DFM 2024-09-25 1943-December-04 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Clement Maurice Holder 2025-01-08 1943-December-04 KIA RAF Pilot Officer George Charles Holland 2025-01-08 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB223
s/n JB223
Avro
JB 223
Merlin
Known Units: 156
Delivered to No. 156 Sqn Sep 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 23/24 Nov 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB224
s/n JB224
W
Avro
JB 224
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB225
s/n JB225
Avro
JB 225
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB226
s/n JB226
G
Avro
JB 226
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Delivered to No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*G", 20 Sep 1943. Failed to return from operation over Mannheim on 17/18 November 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Mannheim Germany 1943-11-17 to 1943-11-17
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Battle of Berlin
405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus), Pathfinder Force. Lancaster aircraft JB 226 did not return from a night attack against Mannheim, Germany.1943-November-18 Failed to Return failed to return from operation over Mannheim 2019-08-20
1943-November-17 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Joseph Paul Henri Dube 2024-10-29 1943-November-17 KIA RAFVR John Blackburn Errington 2022-04-20 1943-November-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Richard Henry Larson 2022-07-28 1943-November-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Douglas Mutch 2022-07-28 1943-November-17 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Gordon John Partridge 2022-07-28 1943-November-17 KIA USAAF James Morris Kenneth Pedersen 2022-04-20 1943-November-17 KIA RCAF Sergeant Edwin Florence Uren 2022-07-28 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB227
s/n JB227
J
Avro
JB 227
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
Delivered to No. 97 Sqn (OF-J) from No. 32 MU. Missing on operation to Berlin 22/23 Nov 1943. 89 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB228
s/n JB228
S
Avro
JB 228
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB229
s/n JB229
Avro
JB 229
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB230
s/n JB230
R
Avro
JB 230
Merlin
Known Units: 156 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB231
s/n JB231
N
Avro
JB 231
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
Delivered to No. 49 Sqn. 6 Sep 1943. Missing over Berlin 2/3 Jan 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB232
s/n JB232
U
Avro
JB 232
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB233
s/n JB233
F
Avro
JB 233
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB234
s/n JB234
Avro
JB 234
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB235
s/n JB235
Avro
JB 235
Merlin
Known Units: ;49
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB236
s/n JB236
Avro
JB 236
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB237
s/n JB237
Avro
JB 237
Merlin
Known Units: 57
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn 7 Sep 1943. Missing on operation to Kassel 22/23 Oct 1943. 57 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB238
s/n JB238
Avro
JB 238
Merlin
Known Units: ;97
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB239
s/n JB239
A
Avro
JB 239
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB240
s/n JB240
Avro
JB 240
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB241
s/n JB241
K
Avro
JB 241
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*K". Failed to return from operation over Schweinfurt on 25 February 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Schweinfurt Germany 1944-02-24 to 1944-02-24
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Battle of Berlin
405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus), Pathfinder Force. Lancaster aircraft JB 241 Outbound and flying at 20000 feet during a night operation against Schweinfurt, Germany. attacked from below by a night-fighter (Schrage- Musick) whose fire set alight to the starboard inner engine and wing.1944-February-25 Failed to Return failed to return from operation over Schweinfurt 2019-08-20
1944-February-24 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Frederick James Abery 2024-11-01 1944-February-24 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Douglas Joseph Eastham 2023-09-24 1944-February-24 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Robert Henry Freiburger 2022-07-28 1944-February-24 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant Basil George Deleyal Jackson DFC 2022-07-28 1944-February-24 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Solomon Kay 2023-09-24 1944-February-24 PoW RCAF Flying Officer John Arthur Radford 2022-07-28 1944-February-24 KIA RAFVR Flt Sergeant Percy George Frank Redstone 2022-04-20 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB242
s/n JB242
Avro
JB 242
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB243
s/n JB243
Avro
JB 243
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB275
s/n JB275
Avro
JB 275
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB276
s/n JB276
Avro
JB 276
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB277
s/n JB277
Avro
JB 277
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB278
s/n JB278
L
Avro
JB 278
Merlin
Known Units: 103 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB279
s/n JB279
Avro
JB 279
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB280
s/n JB280
K
Avro
JB 280
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF at Gransden Lodge, UK, coded "LQ*K". Failed to return from operation over Berlin on 2 January 1944. Shot down en route to target by night-fighter flown by Lt Friedrich Potthast, 1V./NJG1, crashing 02:10 at Nieuw Schoonebeek (Drenthe) in the commune of Schoonebeek, Holland. 7 crew killed, including pilot Flying Officer T.H. Donnelly, all buried in Oud Schoonebeek General Cemetery.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Berlin Germany 1944-01-02 to 1944-01-02
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Battle of Berlin
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF at Gransden Lodge, UK, coded "LQ*K". Failed to return from operation over Berlin on 2 January 1944. Shot down en route to target by night-fighter flown by Lt Friedrich Potthast, 1V./NJG1, crashing 02:10 at Nieuw Schoonebeek (Drenthe) in the commune of Schoonebeek, Holland. 7 crew killed, including pilot Flying Officer T.H. Donnelly, all buried in Oud Schoonebeek General Cemetery. 1944-January-02 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant William Leonard John Clark 2024-02-26 1944-January-02 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Thomas Henry Donnelly DFM, MiD 2024-10-26 1944-January-02 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Leslie George Robert Miller 2022-04-20 1944-January-02 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Alexander Jerry Salaba 2021-08-04 1944-January-02 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Ronald Everest Watts 2022-04-24 1944-January-02 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Brian Sidney James West 2022-04-20 1944-January-02 KIA RCAF Sergeant Ronald Zimmer 2020-10-30 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB281
s/n JB281
R
Avro
JB 281
Merlin
Known Units: 3 LFS;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB282
s/n JB282
Avro
JB 282
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB283
s/n JB283
W
Avro
JB 283
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB284
s/n JB284
Avro
JB 284
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB285
s/n JB285
G
Avro
JB 285
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB286
s/n JB286
O
Avro
JB 286
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*O". Used from c. 1943 to c.1944, from Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Passed to No. 467 Squadron, RAAF in 1944. With this unit when it crashed on 7 January 1945..last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB287
s/n JB287
F
Avro
JB 287
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB288
s/n JB288
Avro
JB 288
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB289
s/n JB289
Avro
JB 289
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB290
s/n JB290
D
Avro
JB 290
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn;630 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB291
s/n JB291
D
Avro
JB 291
Merlin
Known Units: ;100
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB292
s/n JB292
Avro
JB 292
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB293
s/n JB293
O
Avro
JB 293
Merlin
Known Units: 35 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB294
s/n JB294
Avro
JB 294
Merlin
Known Units: ;630
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB295
s/n JB295
Avro
JB 295
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB296
s/n JB296
Avro
JB 296
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB297
s/n JB297
Avro
JB 297
Merlin
Known Units:
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF. Passed to No. 153 Squadron, RAF in September 1943, coded "P4*T".last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB298
s/n JB298
Avro
JB 298
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB299
s/n JB299
W
Avro
JB 299
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
Delivered to No. 97 Sqn (OF-D) from No. 32 MU 17 Sep 1943. Missing on operation to Magdeburg 21/22 Jan 1944. 193 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB300
s/n JB300
D
Avro
JB 300
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB301
s/n JB301
Avro
JB 301
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB302
s/n JB302
Avro
JB 302
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB303
s/n JB303
F
Avro
JB 303
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB304
s/n JB304
Avro
JB 304
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB305
s/n JB305
E
Avro
JB 305
Merlin
Known Units: 49
Delivered to No. 49 Sqn (EA-E) Sep 1943. Missing on operation to Dusseldorf 3/4 Nov 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB306
s/n JB306
W
Avro
JB 306
Merlin
Known Units: 1667 HCU; PNTU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB307
s/n JB307
Avro
JB 307
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB308
s/n JB308
B
Avro
JB 308
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB309
s/n JB309
N
Avro
JB 309
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB310
s/n JB310
Avro
JB 310
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB311
s/n JB311
Avro
JB 311
Merlin
Known Units: ;57
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB312
s/n JB312
Avro
JB 312
Merlin
Known Units: ;97
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB313
s/n JB313
H
Avro
JB 313
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB314
s/n JB314
Q
Avro
JB 314
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB315
s/n JB315
Avro
JB 315
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB316
s/n JB316
Y
Avro
JB 316
Merlin
Known Units: PNTU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB317
s/n JB317
Avro
JB 317
Merlin
Known Units: ;156
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB318
s/n JB318
O
Avro
JB 318
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB319
s/n JB319
I
Avro
JB 319
Merlin
Known Units: 3 LFS
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB320
s/n JB320
W
Avro
JB 320
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial JB325
s/n JB325
C
JB 325
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB344
s/n JB344
Avro
JB 344
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB345
s/n JB345
O
Avro
JB 345
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn;582 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB346
s/n JB346
Avro
JB 346
Merlin
Known Units: 103
Delivered to No. 103 Sqn Sep 1943. Caught fire and crashed on take-off at Elsham Wolds bound for Kassel 3-Oct 1943. 7 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB347
s/n JB347
Avro
JB 347
Merlin
Known Units: ;7
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB348
s/n JB348
R
Avro
JB 348
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*R". Failed to return from operation over Leipzig on 20 / 21 October 1943. Only survivor was mid-upper Pilot Officer D.O. Johnson, who reported that flak hit set fire to port inner engine, and started fire in fuselage. Progressive engine fires and spread of fuselage fire led to mid-upper abandoning aircraft.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Leipzig Germany 1943-10-20 to 1943-10-20
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Battle of Berlin
405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*R". Failed to return from operation over Leipzig on 20 / 21 October 1943. Only survivor was mid-upper Pilot Officer D.O. Johnson, who reported that flak hit set fire to port inner engine, and started fire in fuselage. Progressive engine fires and spread of fuselage fire led to mid-upper abandoning aircraft.1943-October-21 Failed to Return failed to return from operation over Leipzig 2019-08-20
1943-October-20 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 Ernest Charles Brunet 2024-11-23 1943-October-20 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Francis William Bundy 2024-11-23 1943-October-20 KIA RAFVR Sergeant William Henry Hedley 2025-03-17 1943-October-20 PoW RCAF Warrant Officer Class I Ole Orval Johnson 2025-03-17 1943-October-20 KIA RAFVR Sergeant James Henry Lovelock 2025-03-17 1943-October-20 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Norman Ralston Redpath 2025-03-17 1943-October-20 KIA RAAF Flying Officer Kemble Russell Wood 2025-03-17 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB349
s/n JB349
Avro
JB 349
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB350
s/n JB350
Avro
JB 350
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB351
s/n JB351
Avro
JB 351
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB352
s/n JB352
Avro
JB 352
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB353
s/n JB353
Avro
JB 353
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB354
s/n JB354
O
Avro
JB 354
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB355
s/n JB355
Avro
JB 355
Merlin
Known Units: ;83
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB356
s/n JB356
X
Avro
JB 356
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB357
s/n JB357
B
Avro
JB 357
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
Delivered to No. 12 Sqn 26 Sep 1943. Missing on operation to Stettin 5/6 Jan 1944last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB358
s/n JB358
H
Avro
JB 358
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
Delivered to No. 12 Sqn (PH-J) 26 Sep 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 27/28 Jan 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB359
s/n JB359
Q
Avro
JB 359
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB360
s/n JB360
M
Avro
JB 360
Merlin
Known Units: 49
Delivered to No. 49 Sqn 27 Sep 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 27/28 Jan 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB361
s/n JB361
B
Avro
JB 361
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB362
s/n JB362
Avro
JB 362
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB363
s/n JB363
Avro
JB 363
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB364
s/n JB364
Avro
JB 364
Merlin
Known Units: ;57
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn 5 Oct 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 2/3 Jan 1944. 126 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB365
s/n JB365
Avro
JB 365
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB366
s/n JB366
N
Avro
JB 366
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn (DX-N) 27 Sep 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 27/28 Jan 1944. 143 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Berlin Germany 1944-01-28 to 1944-01-28
() Sqn (RAF) East Kirkby
Battle of Berlin
They took off from East Kirkby in Lincolnshire on a bombing mission to Berlin. That night they were one of 677 aircraft (432 Lancasters) on the raid. 180,000 people were bombed out, together with many buildings. The damage was substantial.
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB367
s/n JB367
S
Avro
JB 367
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB368
s/n JB368
G
Avro
JB 368
Merlin
Known Units: ;49
Delivered to No. 49 Sqn 27 Sep 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 22/23 Nov 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB369
s/n JB369
D
Avro
JB 369
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*D". Failed to return from operation over Berlin on 17 December 1943. Crashed near Gravely, Bedffordshire on 17 December 1943, attempting to land in heavy fog. Caught fire after crashing. 405 Squadron lost 3 aircraft to fog that night.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Berlin Germany 1943-12-16 to 1943-12-17
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Battle of Berlin
405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*D". Failed to return from operation over Berlin on 12 December 1943. Crashed near Gravely, Bedffordshire on 17 December 1943, attempting to land in heavy fog. Caught fire after crashing..405 Squadron lost 3 aircraft to fog that night. 1943-December-17 KIA RAFVR Herbert Leonard Cornwell 2024-04-23 1943-December-17 KIA RAFVR Eric Halliwell 2022-07-28 1943-December-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Burns Alexander McLennan 2022-07-28 1943-December-17 KIA RCAF Sergeant Maurice Francis Victor Roobroeck 2022-07-28 1943-December-17 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Gordon Raymond Schneider 2022-07-28 1943-December-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Walter Fitzgerald Sheppard 2022-07-28 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB370
s/n JB370
Avro
JB 370
Merlin
Known Units: 57
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn Oct 1943. It was for a short time detached to No. 617 Sqn (AJ-Ubar). Missing on operation to St. Leu d'Esserent 7 Jul 1944. 338 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB371
s/n JB371
Avro
JB 371
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB372
s/n JB372
Avro
JB 372
Merlin
Known Units: ;57
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn Oct 1943. Missing 2/3 Dec 1943 on mission to Berlin. 75 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB373
s/n JB373
Avro
JB 373
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB374
s/n JB374
D
Avro
JB 374
Merlin
Known Units: 1667 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB375
s/n JB375
Avro
JB 375
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB376
s/n JB376
Avro
JB 376
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB398
s/n JB398
C
Avro
JB 398
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB399
s/n JB399
Q
Avro
JB 399
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn;1653 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB400
s/n JB400
Avro
JB 400
Merlin
Known Units: 103
Delivered to No. 103 Sqn 2 Oct 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 2/3 Dec 1943. 71 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB401
s/n JB401
Avro
JB 401
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
Delivered to No. 103 Sqn 2 Oct 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 2/3 Dec 1943. 93 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB402
s/n JB402
Avro
JB 402
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB403
s/n JB403
Avro
JB 403
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB404
s/n JB404
X
Avro
JB 404
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn; PNTU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB405
s/n JB405
H
Avro
JB 405
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB406
s/n JB406
D
Avro
JB 406
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
Delivered to No. 12 Sqn (PH-D) Oct 1943. Missing on operation to Hanover 8/9 Oct 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB407
s/n JB407
A
Avro
JB 407
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
Originally with No. 460 (Australian) Sqn. Then with No. 12 Sqn (PH-A). Missing on operation to Berlin 29/30 Dec 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB408
s/n JB408
A
Avro
JB 408
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB409
s/n JB409
P
Avro
JB 409
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
Delivered to No. 12 Sqn 7 Oct 1943. Transferred to No. 626 Sqn Dec 1943. Missing on opeartion to Hasselt, Belgium 11/12 May 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB410
s/n JB410
E
Avro
JB 410
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB411
s/n JB411
Avro
JB 411
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB412
s/n JB412
Avro
JB 412
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB413
s/n JB413
Avro
JB 413
Merlin
Known Units: ;49
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB414
s/n JB414
Y
Avro
JB 414
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB415
s/n JB415
Avro
JB 415
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB416
s/n JB416
Avro
JB 416
Merlin
Known Units: ;49
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB417
s/n JB417
F
Avro
JB 417
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB418
s/n JB418
Avro
JB 418
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB419
s/n JB419
Avro
JB 419
Merlin
Known Units: ;57
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB420
s/n JB420
S
Avro
JB 420
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB421
s/n JB421
Avro
JB 421
Merlin
Known Units: 49
Delivered to No. 49 Sqn 7 Oct 1943. Missing on operation to Salbris 7/8 May 1944. 399 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB422
s/n JB422
Avro
JB 422
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB423
s/n JB423
Avro
JB 423
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB424
s/n JB424
Avro
JB 424
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB453
s/n JB453
Avro
JB 453
Merlin
Known Units: 83
Delivered to No. 83 Sqn (OL-F2) Oct 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 2/3 Jan 1944. 109 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB454
s/n JB454
Avro
JB 454
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB455
s/n JB455
P
Avro
JB 455
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB456
s/n JB456
Avro
JB 456
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB457
s/n JB457
Avro
JB 457
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB458
s/n JB458
Avro
JB 458
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB459
s/n JB459
Avro
JB 459
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB460
s/n JB460
Avro
JB 460
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB461
s/n JB461
N
Avro
JB 461
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn;83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB462
s/n JB462
S
Avro
JB 462
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
Delivered to No. 12 Sqn (PH-S) 21 Oct 1943. Missing on operation to Vierzon 30 Jun/1 Jul 1944. 305 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB463
s/n JB463
R
Avro
JB 463
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB464
s/n JB464
D
Avro
JB 464
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB465
s/n JB465
Q
Avro
JB 465
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB466
s/n JB466
Avro
JB 466
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB467
s/n JB467
T
Avro
JB 467
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB468
s/n JB468
G
Avro
JB 468
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB469
s/n JB469
Avro
JB 469
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB470
s/n JB470
Avro
JB 470
Merlin
Known Units: ;635
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB471
s/n JB471
Avro
JB 471
Merlin
Known Units: ;1
Delivered to No. 156 Sqn Oct 1943. Transferred to Pathfinder Navigational Training Unit Nov 1943. Caught fire and crashed in Wales (Llanrastyd Wells) on training flight 10 Apr 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB472
s/n JB472
Avro
JB 472
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB473
s/n JB473
Q
Avro
JB 473
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
Delivered to No. 49 Sqn (EA-Q) Oct 1943. Missing on operation to Revigny 18/19 July 1944. 473 Operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Revigny-Sur-Ornain France 1944-07-18 to 1944-07-19
49 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Fiskerton
49 Squadron RAF (Cave canem) RAF Fiskerton. Lancaster III aircraft JB 473 EA-W was hit by flak and then shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptman Fritz Berger of Stab II/NJG2 during a night operation to bomb the rail marshalling yards at Revigny-sur-Ornain, France. The Lancaster crashed at Vassimont-et-Chapelaine (Marne area) roughly 6 km NW of Sommesous, France
Mid-Upper Air Gunner, Pilot Officer Albert John Rammage (RCAF) was killed in action
Pilot, Flying Officer Roy MacLean Deacon (RCAF) survived, wounded and was captured. Taken to a French hospital Deacon was liberated by advancing US troops
Flight Sergeant Allan Russell Harpell (RCAF), Sergeant Donald Wilson (RCAF), Sergeant John Andrew Diley (RAFVR), Sergeant William Fortune (RAFVR) and Sergeant Harold Sharp (RAFVR) all survived and avoided capture as Evaders
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 3 12 May - 23 July by Theo Boiten, page115
1944-July-19 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Roy MacLean Deacon 2025-02-20 1944-July-19 Evader RAFVR Sergeant John Andrew Diley 2025-02-20 1944-July-19 Evader RAFVR Sergeant William Fortune 2025-02-20 1944-July-19 Evader RCAF Flight Sergeant Allan Russell Harpell 2025-02-20 1944-July-19 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Albert John Rammage 2025-02-20 1944-July-19 Evader RAFVR Sergeant Harold Sharp 2025-02-17 1944-July-19 Evader RCAF Sergeant Donald Wilson 2025-02-20 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB474
s/n JB474
Avro
JB 474
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB475
s/n JB475
X
Avro
JB 475
Merlin
Known Units: 195 Sqn;189 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB476
s/n JB476
Avro
JB 476
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB477
s/n JB477
O
Avro
JB 477
Merlin
Known Units: ;405;455
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, based at Gransden Lodge, UK, coded "LQ*O". Failed to return from operation over Berlin. Crashed near Gravely on 17 December 1943, attempting to land in heavy fog. 405 Squadron lost 3 aircraft to fog that night.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Berlin Germany 1943-12-17 to 1943-12-17
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Battle of Berlin
405 Squadron, RCAF, based at Gransden Lodge, UK, coded "LQ*O". Failed to return from operation over Berlin. Crashed near Gravely on 17 December 1943, attempting to land in heavy fog. 405 Squadron lost 3 aircraft to fog that night.Lancaster Mk.III serial JB478
s/n JB478
O
Avro
JB 478
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB479
s/n JB479
Avro
JB 479
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB480
s/n JB480
Avro
JB 480
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB481
s/n JB481
R
Avro
JB 481
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF from 27 October 1943, coded "LQ*R". Lost on operation to Berlin. Crashed near Marham at 00:55 on 17 December 1943, attempting to land in heavy fog after running out of fuel. All crew killed. Had 53 logged hours when written off. 405 Squadron lost 3 aircraft to fog that night.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Berlin Germany 1943-12-16 to 1943-12-17
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Battle of Berlin
No. 405 Squadron, RCAF from 27 October 1943, coded "LQ*R". Lost on operation to Berlin. Crashed near Marham at 00:55 on 17 December 1943, attempting to land in heavy fog after running out of fuel. All crew killed. Had 53 logged hours when written off. Flying Officer E.B. Drew was seriously injured and Sgt. L.McCrea was uninjured. 405 Squadron lost 3 aircraft to fog that night. 1943-December-17 KIA RCAF Sergeant Henry Roberts Bessent 2024-10-23 1943-December-17 KIA RAFVR Sergeant William Corrigan 2024-10-23 1943-December-17 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 Warren Lee Dobson 2024-10-23 1943-December-17 KIA RAAF Flt Sergeant Victor Mienert 2024-10-23 1943-December-17 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Harold Max Saunders 2024-10-23 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB482
s/n JB482
A
Avro
JB 482
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB483
s/n JB483
Avro
JB 483
Merlin
Known Units: ;156
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB484
s/n JB484
S
Avro
JB 484
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn; PNTU
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*B" and "LQ*X". Used from c. 1943 to c.1945, from Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Later to No. 1666 Conversion Unit. damaged by gale while with this unit, on 19 January 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB485
s/n JB485
Avro
JB 485
Merlin
Known Units: ;57
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn 21 Oct 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 26/27 Nov 1943. 50 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB486
s/n JB486
F
Avro
JB 486
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn (DX-F) 21 Oct 1943. Missing on operation to St. Leu d'Esserent 4/5 July 1944. 397 flying hourslast update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB487
s/n JB487
G
Avro
JB 487
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-06
Bombing Berlin Germany 1943-12-29 to 1943-12-30
103 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Elsham Wolds
103 Swindon's Own Squadron (Noli me Tangere) RAF Elsham Wolds Lancaster III aircraft JB 487 PM-G was shot down by flak during an operation against targets in Berlin, Germany which caused severe structural damage to the tail-plane and damaged both port engines
The Lancaster crashed at Mettingen, Germany with the loss of one crew member
Sergeant TC Henderson (RAF) was killed in action
FS WA Lamb (RCAF), Sergeant HC Cunning (RAF), Sergeant A Fletcher (RAF), LJ Grigg (RAF), Sergeant RW Hatherley (RAF) and Sergeant RAG Warne (RAF) all survived to be taken as Prisoners of War
1943-December-30 PoW RAF Sergeant Charles Hugh Cunning 2024-05-29 1943-December-30 PoW RAF Sergeant Allan Fletcher 2022-11-23 1943-December-30 PoW RAF Sergeant Leslie John Grigg 2022-11-23 1943-December-30 PoW RAF Sergeant Rodney William Hatherley 2022-11-23 1943-December-30 KIA RAF Sergeant Thomas Cook Henderson 2022-11-23 1943-December-30 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Wesley Alfred Lamb 2022-11-23 1943-December-30 PoW RAF Warrant Officer Alfred Robert George Warne MiD 2022-11-23 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB488
s/n JB488
X
Avro
JB 488
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB526
s/n JB526
D
Avro
JB 526
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
Delivered to No. 59 Sqn (DX-D) 10 Nov 1943. Missing on operation to Wesseling 21/22 Jun 1944. 424 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB527
s/n JB527
Avro
JB 527
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB528
s/n JB528
Q
Avro
JB 528
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB529
s/n JB529
Avro
JB 529
Merlin
Known Units: 57
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn 21 Oct 1943. Missing on mission to Berlin 2/3 Dec 1943. 62 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB530
s/n JB530
Avro
JB 530
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB531
s/n JB531
Avro
JB 531
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB532
s/n JB532
A
Avro
JB 532
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB533
s/n JB533
P
Avro
JB 533
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB534
s/n JB534
Avro
JB 534
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB535
s/n JB535
Avro
JB 535
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB536
s/n JB536
Avro
JB 536
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB537
s/n JB537
N
Avro
JB 537
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
Delivered to No. 12 Sqn Oct 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 23/24 Nov 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB538
s/n JB538
Avro
JB 538
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB539
s/n JB539
Avro
JB 539
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB540
s/n JB540
L
Avro
JB 540
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB541
s/n JB541
Avro
JB 541
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB542
s/n JB542
M
Avro
JB 542
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn;12 Sqn
Delivered to No. 12 Sqn (PH-M) Nov 1943. Missing on operation to Brunswick 14/15 Jan 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB543
s/n JB543
Avro
JB 543
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB544
s/n JB544
K
Avro
JB 544
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB545
s/n JB545
O
Avro
JB 545
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB546
s/n JB546
Avro
JB 546
Merlin
Known Units: ;630
Was delivered to No. 61 Sqn. Moved to No. 57 Sqn and then to No. 630 Sqn. Missing on raid to Brunswick 22/23 May 1944. 311 hours of servicelast update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB547
s/n JB547
Avro
JB 547
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB548
s/n JB548
O
Avro
JB 548
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB549
s/n JB549
C
Avro
JB 549
Merlin
Known Units: 100
To No. 100 Sqn from No. 32 MU Nov 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 2/3 Jan 1944. 106 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB550
s/n JB550
Avro
JB 550
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB551
s/n JB551
Avro
JB 551
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB552
s/n JB552
Avro
JB 552
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB553
s/n JB553
Avro
JB 553
Merlin
Known Units: ;156
Delivered to No. 83 Sqn, transferred to No. 156 Sqn Nov 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 2/3 Jan 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB554
s/n JB554
Avro
JB 554
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB555
s/n JB555
D
Avro
JB 555
Merlin
Known Units: 103 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB556
s/n JB556
F
Avro
JB 556
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB557
s/n JB557
Avro
JB 557
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB558
s/n JB558
Avro
JB 558
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB559
s/n JB559
Avro
JB 559
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;12 Sqn;626 Sqn
On 1944-03-09, Squadron Leader A. Ross Dawson, the Chief Technical Officer with 1664/1679 HCU at Wombleton, wrote in his diary:
"Last night we had a kite force land down south at Worksop Notts.JB859 "H" for Harry. He apparently lost a prop blade which shook off the whole prop and reduction gar and broke three of the four engine bearers. It's a wonder he didn't lose the engine too on landing since it was just hanging there and that's all. I'm trying to have it made a Cat AC but the MU won't play ball & it begins to look as if we'll have to send a completely built-up power plant down there ourselves & fix it up."
Diary of A Ross Dawson, courtesy CWM
last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB560
s/n JB560
N
Avro
JB 560
Merlin
Known Units: 100 Sqn
Delivered to No. 100 Sqn 27 Nov 1943. Aircraft crashed at Kelstern on return from mission to Berlin 16/17 Dec 1943. 19 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB561
s/n JB561
B
Avro
JB 561
Merlin
Known Units: 300 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB562
s/n JB562
Avro
JB 562
Merlin
Known Units: ;106
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB563
s/n JB563
Avro
JB 563
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB564
s/n JB564
Avro
JB 564
Merlin
Known Units: ;100
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB565
s/n JB565
I
Avro
JB 565
Merlin
Known Units: ;57
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB566
s/n JB566
Avro
JB 566
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB567
s/n JB567
Avro
JB 567
Merlin
Known Units: ;106
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB592
s/n JB592
Avro
JB 592
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB593
s/n JB593
T
Avro
JB 593
Merlin
Known Units: ;106
Lancaster JB593 was one of 550 aircraft built by A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd. Newton Heath Manchester under Contract No.1807 and Requisition No.8545 and delivered to No.106 Squadron at RAF Station Metheringham, Lincolnshire No.5 Bomber Group for operational service on Saturday 6th November 1943.
On Monday 5th June 1944 the aircraft was categorised "AC' and was repaired on site by another Unit or Contractor and returned to No.106 Squadron five days later. Having failed to return from the night's operation to attack Konigsberg on Tuesday 29thAugust 1944 Lancaster JB593 became the 212th aircraft from the Squadron to become non-effective and struck off charge by the Squadron, the 45th Squadron aircraft flying out of Metheringham, the 11th aircraft assigned to attack Konigsberg and the 2.127th aircraft from No.5 Bomber Group to become non-effective and struck off charge.
Lancaster JB593 was struck off charge by the Squadron on Wednesday 30th August 1944; Recorded on A.M. Form 78 the airframe had a total of 638 hours 5 minutes flying time logged against the airframe
source: Buzz Hope"and in the morning" data base
last update: 2025-February-051944-August-30 Struck off Strength 106 Total on air frame 638 hours, 5 minutes 2022-12-19
Bombing 1944-08-29 to 1944-08-30
106 (B) Sqn (RCAF) Metheringham
I 189 Lancasters of 5 Group carried out one of the most successful 5 Group attacks of !hi.I war on this target at extreme range. Only 480 tons of bombs could be carried hecause- of the range of the target but severe damage was caused around the 4 separate aiming points selected. This success was achieved despite a zo-minute delay Ill Opening the attack because of the presence of low cloud; the bombing force waited patiently using up precious fuel, until the marker aircraft found a break in the clouds and the Master Bomber, Wing Commander J. Woodroffe, probably 5 Group's most skilllcd Master Bomber, allowed the attack to commence. Bomber Command estimated that 41 per cent of all the housing and 20 per cent of all the industry in Konigsberg were destroyed. There was heavy fighter opposition over the target and 15 Lancasters, 7·9 per cent of the force, were lost.
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Crew of Lancaster JB593
Pilot G/C (26144) William Neil McKechnie GC RAF aged 37, son of Lt.-Col. William Ernest McKechnie, I.M.S., and Marion A. McKechnie; husband of Mary Roma McKechnie, of Musselburgh, Midlothian has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 200 on the Runnymede Memorial Surrey. He is Reference No. 875 in the section "ËœDied in aircraft struck off charge, No.106 Squadron and Reference No. 66556 RAF & RAF(VR) personnel that died during the Second World WarFlight Engineer Sergeant (184151) Robert Barclay Clarke RAF(VR) aged 28, son of Robert Barclay Clarke and Jessie Fargie Clarke, of Ealing, Middlesex has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 210 on the Runnymede Memorial Surrey. He is Reference No. 876 in the section "ËœDied in aircraft struck off charge, No.106 Squadron and Reference No. 66410 RAF & RAF(VR) personnel that died during the Second World Wa
Navigator Flight Sergeant (R/181517 "“ later Pilot Officer J/94491) Henry Wilson Tilson Carter RCAF aged 26, son of Henry Joseph and Hannah Carter, of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 249 on the Runnymede Memorial Surrey. He is Reference No. 877 in the section "˜Died in aircraft struck off charge, No.106 Squadron and Reference No. 13689 RCAF personnel that died during the Second World War
Air Bomber Flying Officer (52570) Edward Eric Fletcher RAF aged 29, son of Edward and Deborah Fletcher; husband of Ada Elizabeth Fletcher, of Chippenham, Wiltshire has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 206 on the Runnymede Memorial Surrey. He is Reference No. 878 in the section "ËœDied in aircraft struck off charge, No.106 Squadron and Reference No. 66551 RAF & RAF(VR) personnel that died during the Second World Wa
Wireless Operator Sergeant (1582911) Charles Colin Jeffrey RAF(VR) aged 21, son of Charles Bertram Jeffrey and Rosa Mary Jeffrey has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 232 on the Runnymede Memorial Surrey. He is Reference No. 879 in the section "ËœDied in aircraft struck off charge, No.106 Squadron and Reference No. 66459 RAF & RAF(VR) personnel that died during the Second World Wa
Air Gunner Sergeant (645750) Douglas Forester RAF aged 26, son of William Reuben and Edith Forster, of Macclesfield, Cheshire; husband of Joan Forster, of Macclesfield has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 217 on the Runnymede Memorial Surrey. He is Reference No. 880 in the section "ËœDied in aircraft struck off charge, No.106 Squadron and Reference No. 66552 RAF &RAF(VR) personnel that died during the Second World War<./p>
Air Gunner Flight Sergeant (967795) Ernest Lewis Collins RAF(VR) age? He has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 216 on the Runnymede Memorial Surrey. He is Reference No. 881 in the section "ËœDied in aircraft struck off charge, No.106 Squadron and Reference No. 66413 RAF &RAF(VR) personnel that died during the Second World Wa
source: Buzz Hope"and in the morning" data base
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB594
s/n JB594
Avro
JB 594
Merlin
Known Units: ;100
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB595
s/n JB595
Avro
JB 595
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB596
s/n JB596
Avro
JB 596
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB597
s/n JB597
Avro
JB 597
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB598
s/n JB598
Avro
JB 598
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB599
s/n JB599
Avro
JB 599
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB600
s/n JB600
Avro
JB 600
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB601
s/n JB601
Avro
JB 601
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB602
s/n JB602
A
Avro
JB 602
Merlin
Known Units: 100 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB603
s/n JB603
Avro
JB 603
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB604
s/n JB604
Avro
JB 604
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB605
s/n JB605
Avro
JB 605
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB606
s/n JB606
Avro
JB 606
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB607
s/n JB607
Avro
JB 607
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB608
s/n JB608
Avro
JB 608
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB609
s/n JB609
F
Avro
JB 609
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
With No. 12 Sqn (PH-F) Nov 1943. With No.626 Sqn briefly, Jan/Feb 1944. Missing on operation to Leipzig 19/20 Feb 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB610
s/n JB610
Avro
JB 610
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB611
s/n JB611
Avro
JB 611
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB612
s/n JB612
U
Avro
JB 612
Merlin
Known Units: 106
Delivered to No. 106 Sqn (ZN-U) 17 Nov 1943. Missing on operation to Salbris, France 7/8 May 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB613
s/n JB613
Y
Avro
JB 613
Merlin
Known Units: 150 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB614
s/n JB614
Avro
JB 614
Merlin
Known Units: ;100
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB637
s/n JB637
Avro
JB 637
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB638
s/n JB638
Avro
JB 638
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB639
s/n JB639
Avro
JB 639
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB640
s/n JB640
Avro
JB 640
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB641
s/n JB641
Avro
JB 641
Merlin
Known Units: ;106
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB642
s/n JB642
Avro
JB 642
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB643
s/n JB643
M
Avro
JB 643
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB644
s/n JB644
Avro
JB 644
Merlin
Known Units: ;166
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB645
s/n JB645
Avro
JB 645
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB646
s/n JB646
Avro
JB 646
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB647
s/n JB647
Avro
JB 647
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB648
s/n JB648
Avro
JB 648
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster B. Mk. III serial JB649
s/n JB649
A.v. Roe & Co. Ltd.
JB 649
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB649
s/n JB649
O
Avro
JB 649
Merlin
Known Units: 166 Sqn
Originally delivered to No. 626 Sqn (UM-V2) in Nov 1943 then with 166 Sqn (Code AS-O) in Jan 1944. Missing Stuttgart 25/26 July 1944. Holmes and Robertson give the date as 28 Jul 1944. Aircraft had 393 operational hourslast update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB650
s/n JB650
E
Avro
JB 650
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB651
s/n JB651
Avro
JB 651
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB652
s/n JB652
Avro
JB 652
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB653
s/n JB653
R
Avro
JB 653
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB654
s/n JB654
Avro
JB 654
Merlin
Known Units: ;630
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB655
s/n JB655
Avro
JB 655
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB656
s/n JB656
Avro
JB 656
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB657
s/n JB657
Avro
JB 657
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB658
s/n JB658
Avro
JB 658
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB659
s/n JB659
T
Avro
JB 659
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn;97 Sqn
Delivered to No. 97 Sqn (OF-J) from 32 MU, 23 Nov 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 30/31 Jan 1944. 119 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB660
s/n JB660
T
Avro
JB 660
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB661
s/n JB661
Z
Avro
JB 661
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn;7 Sqn
Delivered to No. 7 Sqn (MG-Z) Nov 1943, it also used the squadron codes MG-T and MG-L. It was transferred to No. 300 (Polish) Sqn in August 1944, before being transferred to No. 626 Sqn (UM-C2). Missing from a mission to Munich 7/8 Jan 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Munich Germany 1945-01-07 to 1945-01-08
626 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Wickenby
626 Squadron (To Strive and not to yield) RAF Wickenby. Lancaster III aircraft JB 661 UM-C2 was lost during an operation against targets in Munich, Germany. The cause of loss was not determined but is believed to have crashed near Gmund am Tegernsee, Germany. There are multiple night fighter claims not attributed to an aircraft serial number on this raid. Lancaster JB 661 was possibly one of the four bombers claimed by Oberfeldwebel Gunther Bahr of 1/NJG6 on this night or one of the single claims by Oberfeldwebel Heinrich Schmidt of 2/NJG6 or Oberleutnant Wilhem Engel of 3/NJG6
The entire crew was lost with this aircraft
Warrant Officer Class 2 Donald Ross Hutchins (RCAF), Flying Officer John Harvey Clark (RCAF), Pilot Officer Kenneth Ross Joslin (RCAF), Flight Sergeant Wayne John Rahkola (RCAF), Flying Officer Kenneth Albert Stroh (RCAF), Flying Officer Jean Paul Herbert Terreau (RCAF) and Sergeant Ernest Leather (RAFVR) were all killed in action
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 1 January - 3 May by Theo Boiten, page 17 1945-January-08 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Harvey Clark 2025-02-11 1945-January-08 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer Class II Donald Ross Hutchins 2025-02-11 1945-January-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Kenneth Ross Joslin 2025-02-11 1945-January-08 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Ernest Leather 2025-02-11 1945-January-08 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Wayne John Rahkola 2025-02-11 1945-January-08 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Kenneth Albert Stroh 2025-02-11 1945-January-08 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Jean Paul Herbert Terreau 2025-02-11 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB662
s/n JB662
Avro
JB 662
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB663
s/n JB663
Avro
JB 663
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB664
s/n JB664
Avro
JB 664
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB665
s/n JB665
Avro
JB 665
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB666
s/n JB666
Avro
JB 666
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB667
s/n JB667
Avro
JB 667
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB668
s/n JB668
R
Avro
JB 668
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*R" and "LQ*T". Damaged over Berlin 29/30 on December 1943. Failed to return from operation over Schweinfurt on 25 February 1944, its first operation after repairs. Reported to have crashed in flames near Weyer (Bas-Rhin), 20 kilometres north-west of Saverne, France after being attacked by night fighter. (Possibly confused with LM120 of 576 Squadron RAF, lost on same mission?)last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Schweinfurt Germany 1944-02-24 to 1944-02-24
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Battle of Berlin
No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*R" and "LQ*T". Damaged over Berlin 29/30 on December 1943. Failed to return from operation over Schweinfurt on 25 February 1944, its first operation after repairs. Reported to have crashed in flames near Weyer (Bas-Rhin), 20 kilometres north-west of Saverne, France after being attacked by night fighter.1944-February-25 Failed to Return failed to return from operation over Schweinfurt 2019-08-20
1944-February-24 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant Robert Lawson Christison 2024-02-20 1944-February-24 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant John William Fielding 2022-07-28 1944-February-24 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Emile Lawrence Poure 2022-07-28 1944-February-24 PoW RCAF Sergeant George Stuart Hugh Robinson 2022-07-28 1944-February-24 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Meyer Edsel Schwartz 2024-03-18 1944-February-24 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant John Russell Shaw 2022-07-28 1944-February-24 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Cyril Wallace Langford Tongue 2022-04-25 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB669
s/n JB669
Avro
JB 669
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB670
s/n JB670
Avro
JB 670
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB671
s/n JB671
Avro
JB 671
Merlin
Known Units: ;97
last update: 2025-June-06
Bombing Berlin Germany 1944-03-25 to 1944-03-25
97 (PFF) Sqn (RAF) RAF Bourn
811 aircraft - 577 Lancasters, 2 l 6 Halifaxes, l 8 Mosquitoes. 72 aircraft - 44 Lancasters, 28 Halifaxes - lost, 8·9 per cent of the force.
This night became known in Bomber Command as 'the night of the strong winds', A powerful wind from the north carried the bombers south at every stage of the flight. Not only was this wind not forecast accurately but it was so strong that the various methods available to warn crews of wind changes during the flight failed to detect the full strength of it. The bomber stream became very scattered, particularly m the homeward flight and radar-predicted Flak batteries at many places were able :o score successes. Part of the bomber force even strayed over the Ruhr defences on :he return flight. It is believed that approximately 50 of the 72 aircraft lost were destroyed by Flak; most of the remainder were victims of night fighters. The Berlin report says that 14 bombers were shot down by fighters in the target area.
The strong winds caused difficulties in the marking at Berlin with, unusually, markers being carried beyond the target and well out to the south-west of the city. 126 smnll towns and vlllages outside Berlin recorded bombs und 30 people were killed In those places, The majority of the damage in Berlin was in the south-western districts, As usual, much housing was destroyed and about 20,000 people were bombed out. Approximately 150 people were killed. No industrial concerns were classed as destroyed but several important ones were damaged. 5 military establishments were badly hit including the depot of the Waffen-S.S. Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division in Lichterfelde.
This was the last major R.A.F. raid on Berlin during the war, although the city would be bombed many times by small forces of Mosquitoes.source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
.97 Squadron (Achieve Your Aim), Pathfinder Force. Lancaster aircraft JB 671 missing during operations over enemy territory. Six RAF members of the crew, Flight Sergeant W. Chapman, Flight Sergeant S. Nuttall, Pilot Officer W.D. Coates, D.F.M., Sergeant B.H. Nicholas, Sergeant. W.L. York and Sergeant F. Thompson were also killed.
1944-March-25 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Moody Baldwin 2024-12-12 1944-March-25 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant William Chapman 2024-12-10 1944-March-25 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer William Darby Coates 2024-12-10 1944-March-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Bertram Horace Nicholas 2024-12-10 1944-March-25 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Stanley Nuttall 2024-12-10 1944-March-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Frank Thompson 2024-12-10 1944-March-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant William Lambert York 2024-12-10 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB672
s/n JB672
U
Avro
JB 672
Merlin
Known Units: 630
Delivered to No. 630 Sqn 17 Nov 1943. Missing on operation to Duisburg 21/22 May 1944. 335 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB673
s/n JB673
P
Avro
JB 673
Merlin
Known Units: 100 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB674
s/n JB674
Avro
JB 674
Merlin
Known Units: ;100
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB675
s/n JB675
O
Avro
JB 675
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn;7 Sqn
Converted from Mk. III in mid 1943. Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*P", in early 1944. No record of being used on operations.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB676
s/n JB676
Avro
JB 676
Merlin
Known Units: ;7
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB677
s/n JB677
U
Avro
JB 677
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB678
s/n JB678
Avro
JB 678
Merlin
Known Units: ;100
Originally of No. 550 Sqn, then transferred to No. 100 Sqn (HW-F) Nov 1943. On return from Berlin 17 Dec 1943, aircraft collided with No. 100 Sqn aircraft JB 674.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB679
s/n JB679
Avro
JB 679
Merlin
Known Units: ;49
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB680
s/n JB680
Avro
JB 680
Merlin
Known Units: ;49
Delivered to No. 49 Sqn Nov 1943. Missing on operation to Essen 26/27 Mar 1944. 95 operational hourslast update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB681
s/n JB681
Avro
JB 681
Merlin
Known Units: 57
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn Nov 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 2/3 Jan 1944. 65 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB682
s/n JB682
A
Avro
JB 682
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB683
s/n JB683
C
Avro
JB 683
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB684
s/n JB684
F
Avro
JB 684
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*U". Failed to return from operation over Laon on 23 April 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-April-23 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Edward Lloyd Alberts 2024-11-01 1944-April-23 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer George Robert Berkey 2024-11-11 1944-April-23 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Grodecki 2025-01-16 1944-April-23 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Robert Oliver 2025-01-16 1944-April-23 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Russell Arthur Saltzberry 2025-01-16 1944-April-23 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer John Walter Tonkyn 2025-01-16 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB699
s/n JB699
Avro
JB 699
Merlin
Known Units:
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*J". Bombed Berlin on 1/2 January 1944, daamged by night fighters but returned to base.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB700
s/n JB700
K
Avro
JB 700
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB701
s/n JB701
Avro
JB 701
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB702
s/n JB702
Avro
JB 702
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB703
s/n JB703
Avro
JB 703
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB704
s/n JB704
Avro
JB 704
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB705
s/n JB705
Avro
JB 705
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB706
s/n JB706
H
Avro
JB 706
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn;97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB707
s/n JB707
M
Avro
JB 707
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Delivered to No. 32 Maintenance Unit, before passing to No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*M". Used from c. 1943, from Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Reported missing on 29 July 1944. Had 400 hours airframe time when lost.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Colin John Blyth 2025-01-26 1944-July-29 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Derek Charles Carrot 2025-01-26 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Wendell Pierce Drew 2025-01-26 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Wing Commander Charles Gray 2025-01-26 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Clifford Morrow 2025-01-26 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Elwood Cameron Pomeroy 2025-01-26 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Elwood Albert Townsend 2025-01-26 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB708
s/n JB708
J
Avro
JB 708
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
Delivered to No. 97 Sqn (OF-R) from No. 83 Sqn Dec 1943. Later coded OF-J. Missing on operation to Lille, France 10/11 May 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB709
s/n JB709
X
Avro
JB 709
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
Delivered to No. 12 Sqn (PH-O) 14 Dec 1943. Missing on Gardening sortie 9/10 Apr 1944last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB710
s/n JB710
Avro
JB 710
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB711
s/n JB711
Avro
JB 711
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB712
s/n JB712
U
Avro
JB 712
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn;12 Sqn;12 Sqn;106 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB713
s/n JB713
Z
Avro
JB 713
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*Z". Used for three operations, flown by W/C R. Lane: to Berlin on 24/25 March 1944, to Noisy le Sec on 18/19 April 1944, and to Lens on 20/21 April 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB714
s/n JB714
K
Avro
JB 714
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB715
s/n JB715
Avro
JB 715
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB716
s/n JB716
X
Avro
JB 716
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
Delivered to No. 12 Sqn (PH-X) 30 Nov 1943. Aircraft crashed and burned at Aston Down on return from a mining sortie 10/11 Aug 1944. 340 Operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB717
s/n JB717
V
Avro
JB 717
Merlin
Known Units: 7
Delivered to Signals Intelligence Unit Dec 1943 for trials of H2S equipment. Delivered to No. 7 Sqn (MG-V) Jan 1944. Missing on operation to Berlin 28-29 Jan 1944. 18 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB718
s/n JB718
Q
Avro
JB 718
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB719
s/n JB719
Avro
JB 719
Merlin
Known Units: ;7
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB720
s/n JB720
S
Avro
JB 720
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB721
s/n JB721
Avro
JB 721
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB722
s/n JB722
U
Avro
JB 722
Merlin
Known Units: 7 Sqn;7 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB723
s/n JB723
P
Avro
JB 723
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn;57 Sqn
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn (DX-P, later DX-L) 30 Nov 1943. Missing on operation to St. Leu d'Esserent, France 4/5 Jul 1944. 349 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB724
s/n JB724
Avro
JB 724
Merlin
Known Units: ;83
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB725
s/n JB725
Avro
JB 725
Merlin
Known Units: 57
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn Dec 1943. Missing on Gardening sortie 9/10 Apr 1944. 227 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB726
s/n JB726
Avro
JB 726
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB727
s/n JB727
Avro
JB 727
Merlin
Known Units:
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF. Failed to return from operation over Berlin on 3 January 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB728
s/n JB728
P
Avro
JB 728
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn
Originally with No. 405 (RCAF) Sqn, then to No. 97 Sqn (OF-P) Dec 1943, then to No. 635 Sqn Mar 1944. Missing on operation to Lens, France 15/16 Jun 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Lens France 1944-06-15 to 1944-06-16
635 (PFF) Sqn (RAF) RAF Downham Market
635 Squadron (Nos ducimus ceteri secunter) Pathfinder Force, RAF Downham Market. Lancaster III aircraft JB 728 F2-B was lost on an operation against railway yards at Lens, France in support of the D-Day landings, cause unknown. The Lancaster crashed near Beaurains, Pas-de-Calais, France
Flying Officer James Caterer (RAFVR) was killed in action and was buried in France
Sergeant William Joseph Beeson (RAFVR), Sergeant Dennis Farrall (RAFVR) and Sergeant Harold Skutt (RAFVR) were all missing, presumed killed in action
The missing have no known grave and all are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
Sergeant Lawrence Benson (RAFVR) survived and evaded for about 10 days but was captured and taken as a Prisoner of War
Flying Officer William Clarence Shepherd (RCAF) and Sergeant Michael F Haberlin (RAFVR) both survived and escaped capture as Evaders
1944-June-16 KIA RAFVR Sergeant William Joseph Beeson 2024-08-06 1944-June-16 PoW RAFVR Sergeant Lawrence Benson 2024-11-11 1944-June-16 KIA RAFVR Flying Officer James Caterer 2024-08-06 1944-June-16 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Dennis Farrall 2024-08-06 1944-June-16 Evader RAFVR Sergeant Michael F Haberlin 2024-08-06 1944-June-16 Evader RCAF Flying Officer William Clarence Shepherd 2024-08-06 1944-June-16 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Harold Skutt 2024-08-06 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB729
s/n JB729
Avro
JB 729
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*E". Failed to return from operation over Lens on 16 June 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Lens France 1944-06-15 to 1944-06-16
405 () Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus), Pathfinder Force, RAF Gransden Lodge. Lancaster III aircraft JB 729 LQ-E failed to return from an attack against the rail yards at Lens, France in support of the Normandy landings. The Lancaster was lost without a trace and the cause of loss is unknown but there was speculation about a mid-air collision as a large explosion was seen by multiple crews on the run-in to target. Two aircraft (JB 729 and ND 343) were missing after operation concludedFlying Officer John Ignatius Joseph Keenan (RCAF), Pilot Officer Ronald Oberlin Ellis (RCAF), Pilot Officer john Douglas Hayes (RCAF), Pilot Officer Alan Joseph Retter (RCAF), Flight Sergeant Eric George Smith (RCAF), Flying Officer Herbert Asquith Wickens (RCAF), Flying Officer William Michael Crumbley (RAFVR) and Flight Sergeant Walter Sidney Marchant (RAFVR) were all missing, presumed killed in action. The missing have no known grave and all are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
1944-June-16 KIA RAFVR Flying Officer William Michael Crumbley 2025-01-22 1944-June-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Ronald Oberlin Ellis 2025-01-22 1944-June-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Douglas Hayes 2025-01-22 1944-June-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Ignatius Joseph Keenan 2025-01-22 1944-June-16 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Walter Sidney Marchant 2025-01-22 1944-June-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Alan Joseph Retter 2025-01-22 1944-June-16 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Eric George Smith 2025-01-22 1944-June-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Herbert Asquith Wickens 2025-01-22 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB730
s/n JB730
Avro
JB 730
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB731
s/n JB731
Avro
JB 731
Merlin
Known Units: ;97
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB732
s/n JB732
Avro
JB 732
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB733
s/n JB733
Avro
JB 733
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB734
s/n JB734
Avro
JB 734
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB735
s/n JB735
Avro
JB 735
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB736
s/n JB736
Avro
JB 736
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB737
s/n JB737
R
Avro
JB 737
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Used by No. 405 Squadron, RCAF, coded "LQ*R". Failed to return from operation over Berlin on 1/2 January 1944, one of two aircraft lost by squadron that night. Crashed near St Pol sur Ternoise in the Pas-de-Calais, France.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Berlin Germany 1944-01-01 to 1944-01-02
405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF) Gransden Lodge
Battle of Berlin
405 Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus) Pathfinder Force, RAF Gransden Lodge. Lancaster BIII aircraft JB 737 LQ-R was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Ludwig Meister of the 1/NJG 4, who was flying Bf 110 G-4 3C+SJ from Florennes airfield in Belgium while returning from an operation against targets in Berlin, Germany. The Lancaster crashed near Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, Pas-de-Calais, France with the loss of five crew members
Flying Officer A P Campbell (RCAF), Flight Sergeant B C Cameron (RCAF), Pilot Officer J B Dunne (RCAF)Pilot Officer T D Gavin (RCAF) and Sergeant J Redhead (RAFVR) were all killed in action
Pilot Officer D N Thompson (RCAF) and Sergeant D J Leslie (RAFVR) both survived to become Prisoners of War
Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database
1944-January-02 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Bruce Clarke Cameron 2024-07-30 1944-January-02 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Allan Paul Campbell 2024-07-30 1944-January-02 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James Barry Dunne 2024-07-30 1944-January-02 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Thomas Donald Gavin 2024-07-30 1944-January-02 PoW RAFVR Sergeant David John Leslie 2023-12-09 1944-January-02 KIA RAFVR Sergeant James Redhead 2024-07-30 1944-January-02 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer David Noel Thompson 2024-07-30 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB738
s/n JB738
Avro
JB 738
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB739
s/n JB739
Avro
JB 739
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB740
s/n JB740
Avro
JB 740
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB741
s/n JB741
J
Avro
JB 741
Merlin
Known Units: ;460
Delivered to No. 460 Sqn 11 Dec 1943. Missing on operation to Mailly-le-Camp 3/4 May 1944. 263 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Mailly-le-Camp France 1944-05-04 to 1944-05-04
460 () Sqn (RAAF) RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft JB 741 was delivered to 460 Squadron 11 Dec 1943. Aircraft was shot down during a night operation to MaiIly le Camp, France. Casualties included RCAF Flt. Sgt. W.B. Martin (air bomber) and Pilot Officer W.H. Thompson (navigator); RAF Pilot Officer F.W. Baker (pilot); RAFVR Sgt's. H.P. Black (air gunner), W.C. Maxwell (air gunner), J.W. Ranger (flight engineer), and G.E. O'Neill (wireless operator / air gunner).Lancaster Mk.III serial JB742
s/n JB742
D
Avro
JB 742
Merlin
Known Units: 460
Delivered to No. 460 (Australian) Sqn 11 Dec 1943. Missing on mission to Augsburg 25/26 Feb 1944. 118 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Augsburg Germany 1944-02-25 to 1944-02-25
460 () Sqn (RAAF) RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft JB 742 was delivered to 460 Squadron on 11 December 1943. JB742 took off from RAF Binbrook on 25 February 1944 during a night trip to bomb Augsburg, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. Killed were RCAF Pilot Officer J.E. Strain (navigator); RAAF Pilot Officer R.C. Martin (pilot) and RAAF Flt. Sgt's. W.D. Carlilie (wireless operator / air gunner), P.W.B. Gurdon (bomb aimer), and W.J. Howiss (air gunner); RAF Sgt's F.C. Willis (flight engineer) and F. Woodward (air gunner).Lancaster Mk.III serial JB743
s/n JB743
Avro
JB 743
Merlin
Known Units: 460;625
Delivered to No. 460 (Australian) Sqn 11 Dec 1943. Transferred to No. 625 Sqn 13 Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Vierzon 30 Jun/1 Jul 1944. 304 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB744
s/n JB744
Avro
JB 744
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB745
s/n JB745
Avro
JB 745
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB746
s/n JB746
I
Avro
JB 746
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
Delivered to No. 103 Sqn (PM-I) Dec 1943. Shot down by flak on mission to Le Havre 31 Jul 1944. 407 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Le Havre France 1944-07-30 to 1944-07-31
103 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Elsham Woods
103 Squadron (Noll Me Tangere) RAF Elsham Woods. Lancaster III aircraft JB 746 PM-I was hit by flak while engaged in a raid against shipping targets in the port of Le Havre, France. A wing separated from the aircraft before it exploded and only two crew members were able to escape before the Lancaster crashed near the target area
Flying Officer Joseph Leonidas Gerald Avon (RCAF), Sergeant Donald Fraser Enright (RCAF), Flight Sergeant George Roughton Carver Gilroy Adams (RAFVR), Sergeant George Robert Carr (RAFVR) and Sergeant Leslie Henderson (RAFVR) were all killed in action
Flying Officer Kenneth Norris (RCAF) and Warrant Officer Class 2 Wilfrid Lucien Morneau (RCAF), survived to be taken as Prisoners of War
Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database
1944-July-31 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant George Roughton Carver Gilroy Adams 2025-01-30 1944-July-31 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Joseph Leonidas Gerald Avon 2025-01-30 1944-July-31 KIA RAFVR Sergeant George Robert Carr 2025-01-30 1944-July-31 KIA RCAF Sergeant Donald Fraser Enright 2025-01-30 1944-July-31 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Leslie Henderson 2025-01-30 1944-July-31 PoW RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Wilfred Lucien Morneau 2025-01-30 1944-July-31 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Kenneth Norris 2025-01-30 Lancaster Mk.III serial JB747
s/n JB747
Avro
JB 747
Merlin
Known Units: 103
Delivered to No. 103 Sqn Dec 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 2/3 Jan 1944. 34 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.III serial JB748
s/n JB748
Z
Avro
JB 748
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06