Lancaster (Total: 7,377, Canadian: 293, Group 291)
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.II serial LL617
s/n LL617
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 617
Hercules
Known Units:
11 operations flown with No. 432 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "QO*J". 11 operations flown with No. 426 (B) Squadron, RCAF. 34 operations flown with No. 408 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "EQ*F" and EQ*P". Later became instructional airframe 4957M.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL618
s/n LL618
m/d 683
F
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 618
Hercules
Known Units: ;432
last update: 2025-August-02
Bombing Berlin Germany 1943-12-02 to 1943-12-02
(B) Sqn (RCAF) East Moor
Battle of Berlin
458 aircraft - 425 Lancasters, r8 Mosquitoes, 15 Halifaxes. There were no major diversions and the bombers took an absolutely direct route across the North Sea and Holland and then on to Berlin
. The Germans identified Berlin as the target 19 minutes before Zero Hour and many fighters were waiting there. Incorrectly forecast winds scattered the bomber stream, particularly on the return flight, and German fighters scored further victories here. A total of 40 bombers - 37 Lancasters, 2 Halifaxes, I Mosquito-were lost, 8·7 per cent of the force. 460 (Australian) Squadron lost 5 of its 25 Lancasters on this raid, including the aircraft in which two newspaper reporters were flying. These were Captain Grieg of the Daily Mail and Norman Stockton of the Sydney Sun. The body of Mr Stockton is buried in the Berlin War Cemetery.
The inaccurate wind forecast caused great difficulties for the Pathfinders, who were not able to establish their positions correctly. The bombing photographs of the Main Force suggested that the attack was scattered over a wide area of southern Berlin and the countryside south of the city. The Berlin report confirms this but adds damage was caused in industrial areas of the eastern and western districts, with two more of the Siemens factories, a ball-bearing factory and several railway installations being badly hit. Damage elsewhere was light, only 136 building: being destroyed. 36 people were killed and a further 105 were classed as 'missing'. (I is noticed again and again that, as the war progressed, German reports become mon erratic or incomplete. The 'final report' - Schlussbericht -for this raid is missing from the Berlin archives.)
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Lancaster aircraft LL 618 missing from night operations over Berlin, Germany. Flight Lieutenant S.W. Baker, WOs G.P. Lowle, A.R. Morgan, FS J.R. Goodwin, A.E.Slegg, Sergeants W.H. Green, WE Stinson, and J. Wadsworth (RAF) were kilted. There were two pilots on board for this trip.
1943-December-03 Failed to Return Failed to return from operation over Berlin, no survivors. 2019-08-20
1943-December-02 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Shirley Wildemar Frank Baker 2024-11-05 1943-December-02 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant James Robertson Goodwin 2024-12-04 1943-December-02 KIA RCAF Sergeant William Henry Green 2024-12-04 1943-December-02 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 Gordon Pomeroy Lowle 2024-12-04 1943-December-02 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 Albert Raymond Morgan 2024-12-04 1943-December-02 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Slegg 2024-12-04 1943-December-02 KIA RCAF Sergeant Wilmer Edmond Stinson 2024-12-04 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL619
s/n LL619
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 619
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL620
s/n LL620
m/d 683
N
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 620
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL621
s/n LL621
m/d 683
N
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 621
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn;426 Sqn
Operated by No. 408 Squadron, RCAF, coded "EQ*Y". Later with No. 426 Squadron, RCAF, coded "OW*N". Then to No. 1668 Heavy Conversion Unit. Crashed on 23 January 1945last update: 2025-July-30
1944-July-05 Survived RCAF Flight Sergeant George William Braithwaite 2024-11-17 1944-July-05 Survived RCAF Sergeant Ronald William Bryant 2024-11-23 1944-July-05 Survived RCAF Pilot Officer Douglas Arthur Burnell 2022-03-01
1944-July-05 Survived RAFVR Sergeant Reginald Heppel 2025-02-20 1944-July-05 Survived RCAF Warrant Officer II Neil Gerard McPhee 2025-02-20 1944-July-05 Survived RAFVR Flying Officer Bertram Monroe 2025-02-20 1944-July-05 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Richard Stevens 2025-02-20 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL622
s/n LL622
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 622
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL623
s/n LL623
m/d 683
U
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 623
Hercules
Known Units: ;408
Used by No. 408 Squadron, RCAF, coded "EQ*J", and EQ*U" when lost. flew 2 operations. Berlin. 365 aircraft using the same route as the previous night. The Germans had predicted Berlin as the target and had gathered their night-fighters in the target area. Radio interceptions of the German radios from England and some spoof fighter flares depleted their numbers but even so, 20 Lancasters were Lost, representing 5.2% of the force. One positive result of the night-fighter presence was the restraint on the part of flak batteries- for fear of downing their own aircraft. Once again the target was cloud covered so PFF used sky-markers. In fact many of the previous night's fires were still ablaze and the glow showed through the cloud sufficiently to allow accurate bombing. Much further destruction was caused, although it is difficult to be specific since the two raids were so close together that the German authorities created only one report. Approximately 1500 deaths on the ground. Failed to return, no survivors.last update: 2025-July-30
1943-November-24 KIA RAFVR Douglas Mackenzie Bell 2025-01-09 1943-November-24 KIA RCAF Sergeant Lloyd George Hanton 2025-01-09 1943-November-24 KIA RAFVR Flying Officer Robert Alfred Quinney 2025-01-09 1943-November-24 KIA RAFVR George Barclay Shea 2025-01-09 1943-November-24 KIA RAFVR Harold Smith 2025-01-09 1943-November-24 KIA RAFVR Ronald George Williams 2025-01-09 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL624
s/n LL624
m/d 683
P
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 624
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn;1678 HCU
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL625
s/n LL625
m/d 683
C
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 625
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
Delivered to No. 514 Sqn (JI-C) Nov 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 24/25 Mar 1944.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL626
s/n LL626
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 626
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL627
s/n LL627
m/d 683
U
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 627
Hercules
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL628
s/n LL628
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 628
Hercules
Known Units: ;426
Used by No. 426 Squadron, RCAF, coded "OW*Y". Failed to return from operation over Berlin on 21 January 1944, no survivors.last update: 2025-July-30
1944-January-20 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer Raymond William Elliot 2024-04-13 1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Ernest Stewart Hawkes DFC 2024-04-21 1944-January-20 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer Gerald Ralph Ketcher DFM 2024-04-21 1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Leslie Neil McCaig DFC 2024-04-22 1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert James Orr 2024-04-24 1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Ronald Duncan Polson 2024-05-01 1944-January-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Thomas James Preece 2024-05-01 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL629
s/n LL629
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 629
Hercules
Known Units: ;426
Used by No. 426 Squadron, RCAF, coded "OW*G". Damaged by flak during raid on Berlin 23/24 November 1943, crash landed at Malton, Yorkshire on return. 2 crew killed, 3 injured.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL630
s/n LL630
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 630
Hercules
Known Units: ;426
Used by No. 426 Squadron, RCAF, coded "OW*D". Failed to return from operation over Frankfurt on 21 December 1943, shot down by night fighter above Gls near Koblenz. No survivors.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL631
s/n LL631
m/d 683
G
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 631
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn
Used by No. 408 Squadron, RCAF, coded "EQ*G". Flew 5 operations. Failed to return from operation over Berlin on 3 January 1944, no survivors.last update: 2025-July-30
1944-January-03 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Eric Deakin 2024-10-09 1944-January-03 PoW RAF Sergeant Henry Charles Hawkins 2024-10-09 1944-January-03 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Ernest Hilker 2024-10-09 1944-January-03 PoW RCAF Flying Officer George Courtlandt Morlock 2024-10-09 1944-January-03 KIA RCAF Sergeant Hubert James Mouland 2024-10-09 1944-January-03 PoW RCAF Sergeant Spenser Ross Sweetzir 2024-10-09 1944-January-03 PoW RCAF Warrant Officer 2 Louis Peder Torpe 2024-10-09 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL632
s/n LL632
m/d 683
G
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 632
Hercules
Known Units: 432;408
With No. 432 Squadron, RCAF, coded "QO*G", from October 1943. Damaged by night fighter during raid on Berlin on 26/27 November 1943. With No. 408 Squadron, RCAF, coded "EQ*G" when lost. Failed to return from operation over Leipzig 20 February 1944, shot down by night fighter. Came down near Stendal, Germany. 2 killed, 5 POW.last update: 2025-July-24
1940-September-11 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer James Boyd McKinnon 2023-07-22 1944-February-20 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Benedict Vincent Greip 2021-05-19 1944-February-20 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant J S James 2023-08-26
1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Plunkett 2024-05-01 1944-February-20 PoW RCAF Flying Officer James Sidney Tames 2023-08-11 1944-February-20 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Raymond Thomas Wall 2023-08-16 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL633
s/n LL633
m/d 683
L
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 633
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn
Used by No. 408 Squadron, RCAF, coded "EQ*L". Flew 25 operations. Failed to return from operation over Nuremberg on 31 March 1944, crashed in Germany.last update: 2025-July-30
1944-March-31 PoW RAFVR Sergeant Jack Edwin Bates 2024-12-31 1944-March-31 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer John Robert Hughes 2024-07-11 1944-March-31 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Irvin Labow 2024-07-11 1944-March-31 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Alvin Alston Patton 2024-07-11 1944-March-31 PoW RCAF Flt. Lieutenant Gordon Schachter 2024-12-31 1944-March-31 PoW RCAF Flt. Lieutenant Joseph Gordon White 2024-12-31 1944-March-31 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Gordon Leslie Wood 2024-12-31 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL634
s/n LL634
m/d 683
F
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 634
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn;426 Sqn
20 operations flown with No. 426 Squadron, coded "OW*F", including Berlin on 2/3 January 1944 and Schweinfurt on 24/25 February 1944. 24 operations flown with No. 408 Squadron, coded "EQ*F". Later to No. 1668 Heavy Conversion Unit.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL635
s/n LL635
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 635
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL636
s/n LL636
m/d 683
G
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 636
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn
Named Miss Kingsville, 5 operations flown with No. 432 Squadron, coded "QO*B". With this unit when it bombed Brunswick on 14/15 January 1944, was attacked by fighters and damaged. 48 operations flown with No. 408 Squadron, coded "EQ*G".last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL637
s/n LL637
m/d 683
P
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 637
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn
Delivered to No.432 Sqn Jan 1944. 3 operations flown with No. 432 Squadron as "QO*Z". 6 operations flown with No. 408 Squadron as "EQ*P" Lost on 15/16 March 1944, on mission to Stuttgart. Shot down by night fighter, came down at Hilsenheim, 9 kilometres north-east of Selestat, France. 122 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
1944-March-15 KIA RCAF Sergeant Robert George Alfred Burt 2024-11-25 1944-March-15 KIA RAF Sergeant Douglas Cruikshank 2024-05-22 1944-March-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Lawrence Doran 2024-10-26 1944-March-15 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Robert Henry Hudson 2025-03-28 1944-March-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Norman Andrew Lumgair 2025-03-28 1944-March-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer George Parker 2025-03-28 1944-March-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Taylor 2025-03-28 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL638
s/n LL638
m/d 683
M
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 638
Hercules
Known Units: ;432
last update: 2025-August-02
Bombing Berlin Germany 1944-01-27 to 1944-01-27
(B) Sqn (RCAF) East Moor
Battle of Berlin
515 Lancasters and 15 Mosquitoes. The German fighters were committed to action earlier than normal, some being sent out 75 miles over the North Sea from the Dutch coast.' But the elaborate feints and diversions had some effect. Half of the German fighters were lured north by the Heligoland mining diversion and action in the main bomber stream was less intense than on recent nights. 33 Lancasters lost, 6'4 per cent of the heavy force.
The target was cloud-covered again and sky-marking had to be used. Bomber Command was not able to make any assessment of the raid except to state that the bombing appeared to have been spread well up and down wind. Local reports confirm that the bombing was spread over a wide area, although many bombs fell in the southern half of the city, less in the north, but 61 small towns and villages outside the city limits were also hit with 28 people being killed in those places. Details of houses destroyed in Berlin are not available but it is known that nearly 20,000 people were bombed out. 50 industrial premises were hit and several important war industries suffered serious damage. 567 people were killed, including 132 foreign workers,
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Lancaster aircraft LL 638 was shot down near Doberitz, Germany during a night raid against Berlin, Germany. F/Os A.S. Gates, A.D. Bell, D.J. Paterson, P/Os R.P. Wilson, F.W. Heinen, Flight Sergeant C.A.Allison and Sergeant W.R. Greenaway (RAF) were killed.
1944-January-28 Failed to Return Failed to return from operation over Berlin, no survivors. 2019-08-20
1944-January-27 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Alvin Donald Gould Bell 2024-11-11 1944-January-27 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Arley Sides Gates 2023-01-29 1944-January-27 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Frank William Heinen 2023-01-29 1944-January-27 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Donald John Paterson 2024-05-01 1944-January-27 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Clyde Allison Sherwood 2024-05-01 1944-January-27 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Perry Wilson 2023-01-29 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL639
s/n LL639
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 639
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL640
s/n LL640
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 640
Hercules
Known Units: ;115
Delivered to No. 115 Sqn 24 Jan 1944. Missing on operation to Frankfurt 18/19 Mar 1944. 87 Operational hourslast update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL641
s/n LL641
m/d 683
K
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 641
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
With No. 514 Sqn (JI-K) Jan 1944. Crashed near Newmarket on return from operation to Le Mans, France 19/20 May 1944.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL642
s/n LL642
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 642
Hercules
Known Units:
Used by No. 408 Squadron, RCAF, coded "EQ*B". Flew 48 operations.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL643
s/n LL643
m/d 683
Q
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 643
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn
Used by No. 408 Squadron, RCAF, coded "EQ*Q". Flew 23 operations. Achères- to attack railway yards. Part of a 337 bomber strong force to bomb various lines of communications behind the Normandy beachhead. There was less cloud cover than the previous night with all targets being accurately bombed and fewer civilians killed. Because the targets were further inland than recent raids, the German night-fighters had a greater opportunity to infiltrate the bomber stream and as a result, losses were higher. 28 aircraft were Lost (8.3%).last update: 2025-July-30
1944-June-08 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Derek Noel Flitton 2021-09-09 1944-June-08 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer Raymond William Griggs 2021-09-09 1944-June-08 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer Herbert Hugill 2021-09-09 1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Alexander Inverarity 2022-01-26 1944-June-08 KIA RAF Pilot Officer Ralph William Lowrey 2021-09-09 1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Harold Rolph 2021-09-09 1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Douglas David Skingle 2021-09-09 1944-June-08 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Joseph William Weis 2021-09-09 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL644
s/n LL644
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 644
Hercules
Known Units: 514;115
Started with No. 514 Sqn, then transferred to No. 115 Sqn. Missing on operation to Schweinfurt 24/25 Feb 1944. 37 operational hourslast update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL645
s/n LL645
m/d 683
H
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 645
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
With No. 514 Sqn (JI-H2, later JI-R). Crashed at Waterbeach on return from raid to Nuremberg 30/31 Mar 1944. This was the worst ever night for Bomber Command, when 108 aircraft were lost or crashed in England. LL 645 was the 106th casualty of the night.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL646
s/n LL646
m/d 683
G
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 646
Hercules
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL647
s/n LL647
m/d 683
R
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 647
Hercules
Known Units: 426 Sqn
With No. 432 Squadron, RCAF, coded "QO*D", dates not certain. With No. 426 Squadron, RCAF, coded "OW*R", when it failed to return from operation over Frankfurt on 23 March 1944, shot down by night fighters. 5 killed, 2 POW..last update: 2025-July-30
Bombing Frankfurt Germany 1944-03-22 to 1944-03-22
426 (B) Sqn (RCAF) RAF Linton-on-Ouse
426 Thunderbird Squadron (On Wings of Fire), RAF Linton-on-Ouse. Lancaster II aircraft DS 741 OW-R was intercepted and shot down, outward-bound at 20,000 feet over the Ruhr during an operation against targets in Frankfurt, Germany by a night fighter. There are multiple night fighter pilot claims for this loss
The Lancaster crashed twenty-five miles east of Munster at Harsewinkel, Germany
Flying Officer EK Sears (RCAF), Pilot Officer JW MacLean (RCAF), Pilot Officer HG Wright (RCAF), Pilot Officer HH Gray (RCAF) and Sergeant L Pearson (RAFVR) were all killed in action
Flying Officer WJ Burrows (RCAF) and Flying Officer HF MacDonald (RCAF) survived and were taken Prisoners of War
426 Squadron Lancaster II LL647 OW-R Frankfurt 1944
Martin "Tino" Becker claims 22 March 1944 - Luftwaffe and Allied ...
1944-March-23 Failed to Return Failed to return from operation over Frankfurt, shot down by night fighters. 5 killed, 2 POW. 2019-08-20
1944-March-22 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant William John Burrows 2022-11-14 1944-March-22 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Harold Hugh Gray 2022-11-14 1944-March-22 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Hugh Fissette MacDonald 2025-03-27 1944-March-22 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John William MacLean 2022-11-14 1944-March-22 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Lawrence Pearson 2022-11-14 1944-March-22 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Earl Kitchener Sears 2022-11-14 1944-March-22 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Harold Grover Wright 2022-11-14 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL648
s/n LL648
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 648
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL649
s/n LL649
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 649
Hercules
Known Units: ;115
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL650
s/n LL650
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 650
Hercules
Known Units: ;115
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL651
s/n LL651
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 651
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL652
s/n LL652
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 652
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL653
s/n LL653
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 653
Hercules
Known Units: ;514
Produced as Lancaster Mk. II. Flew with N. 519 Sqn as A2-f and later as JI-E. Missing from operation to Stuttgart 15/16 Mar 1944.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL666
s/n LL666
m/d 683
D
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 666
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL667
s/n LL667
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 667
Hercules
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL668
s/n LL668
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 668
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL669
s/n LL669
m/d 683
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 669
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL670
s/n LL670
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 670
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL671
s/n LL671
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 671
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn;514 Sqn
Originally with No. 115 Sqn (JI-B2), transferred to No. 514 Sqn(A2-B). Missing on operation to Berlin 24/25 Dec 1943.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL672
s/n LL672
m/d 683
C
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 672
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
With No. 15 Sqn (A2-C). Missing on operation to Magdeburg 21/22 Jan 1944
January 21 1944 Operations Record Book
January 21 1944 Operations Record Book
last update: 2025-July-30
Bombing Magdeburg Germany 1944-01-21 to 1944-01-22
514 (B) Sqn (RAF)
Outbound shot down from 21000 feet over Perleberg Germany
Lancaster aircraft LL 672 was shot down by German Major Heinrich Wittenstein flying a JU-88 aircraft while engaged in a night trip to Magdeburg, Germany. Sergeantt P McQueeny (RAF) was also killed. Two Canadians, Flight Lieutenant JM Bourke, Flying Officer EJ Clare, and three RAF members of the crew were taken Prisoner of War.
Major Wittenstein had shot down 83 four engine aircraft, at night, using the upward firing cannons. After the war, Earl James Clare of Port Credit, Ontario said, Our aircraft was attacked twice by a night fighter and was on fire as five of us baled out. I can't tell you what happened to Al Williston, whether he hit the tailplane or if it exploded before he got out. The JU-88 got caught in the explosion and it also was on fire. Major Wittenstein was killed but his radar operator baled out. The radar operator reported that they were hit by machine gun fire from the Lancaster and were on fire.
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL673
s/n LL673
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 673
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL674
s/n LL674
m/d 683
D
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 674
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL675
s/n LL675
m/d 683
M
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 675
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn
Used by No. 426 Squadron, RCAF, flew 21 operations. Also with No. 408 Squadron, RCAF, coded "EQ*K", "EQ*M", and "EQ*T", flew 18 missions. Named BuZZ-King of Hogtown. With No. 408 Squadron when it crashed on 11 July 1944, near Melton Mowbray. 6 crew killed.last update: 2025-July-30
1944-July-11 KIFA RCAF Sergeant George Douglas Britland 2025-03-22 1944-July-11 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Clarke Buckberrough 2025-03-22 1944-July-11 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Ernest Anson Shaw 2025-03-22 1944-July-11 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Grant Lyman Smith 2025-03-22 1944-July-11 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Walter Simeon Waychuk 2025-03-22 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL676
s/n LL676
m/d 683
E
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 676
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn
Used by No. 408 Squadron, RCAF, coded "EQ*E". Completed 1 operation. Failed to return from operation to Berlin on 17 December 1943.last update: 2025-July-30
1943-December-16 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Claude Andrew Besse 2024-11-12 1943-December-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Ted Charles Gierulski 2022-04-19 1943-December-16 KIA RAF Sergeant Michael Maher 2022-04-19 1943-December-16 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant William John Maitland DFM 2022-04-19 1943-December-16 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Roland Pettitt 2022-04-19 1943-December-16 KIA RAFVR Sergeant John James Robertson 2022-04-19 1943-December-16 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Joseph Evans Saunders 2022-04-19 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL677
s/n LL677
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 677
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL678
s/n LL678
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 678
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
Delivered to No. 115 Sqn, then transferred to No. 514 Sqn (JI-L2). Missing on operation to Gelsenkirchen 12/13 Jun 1944. 192 flying hourslast update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL679
s/n LL679
m/d 683
J
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 679
Hercules
Known Units: 514
Delivered to No. 115 Sqn (A2-J) 2 Dec 1943. Missing on operation to Brunswick 14/15 Jan 1944. 6 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL680
s/n LL680
m/d 683
H
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 680
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL681
s/n LL681
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 681
Hercules
Known Units: ;514
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL682
s/n LL682
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 682
Hercules
Known Units: ;115
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL683
s/n LL683
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 683
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL684
s/n LL684
m/d 683
C
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 684
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn;1678 HCU
Delivered to No. 115 Sqn Dec 1943, then transferred to No. 514 Sqn as A2-B and later JI-B2. Missing on operation to Frankfurt 22/23 Mar 1944. 101 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL685
s/n LL685
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 685
Hercules
Known Units: ;514
To No. 115 Sqn. Transferred to No. 514 Sqn as A2-G, later JI-G2Missing on operation to Brunswick, 14/15 Jan 1944. 32 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL686
s/n LL686
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 686
Hercules
Known Units: ;432
last update: 2025-August-02
Operational 1944-02-02 to 1944-02-02
(B) Sqn (RCAF) East Moor
Lancaster II aircraft LL 686 QO-F crashed while returning to base on a training flight with engine problems and crashed lining up to land one mile south-east of Ripon, Yorkshire. Flying Officer D.S. Kerr, Pilot Officer(s) W.L. Wolf, P.J. Power, D.D. Finch (Nfld), J.G.Sieben, Sergeants K. Huggins (RAF), R Pratt Robinson, were killed. This was the last Lancaster II lost by 432 Squadron. Pilot Officer Power as a FS had bailed out of the first Lancaster II (DS 847) lost by the squadron November 16, 1943, also lost on a test flight.
Fifty years after the crash a memorial plaque was unveiled overlooking the village green at Aldborough, near Boroughbridge. The names of the crew are inscribed on this plaque. (Detail provided by David E. Thompson, Middlesborough, England.)
1944-February-02 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Donald Davies Finch 2023-01-30 1944-February-02 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer David Simpson Kerr 2023-01-30 1944-February-02 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Paul Joseph Power 2023-01-30 1944-February-02 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph George Sieben 2023-01-30 1944-February-02 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Wilfred Lawrence Wolf 2023-01-30 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL687
s/n LL687
m/d 683
L
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 687
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn;426 Sqn
15 operations flown with No. 426 Squadron as "OW*L". 12 operations flown with No. 408 Squadron, as "EQ*H" and "EQ*M" when lost. Failed to return from operation over Hamburg on 29 July 1944.last update: 2025-July-30
1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Joesph Laurent Andre Blais 2024-11-13 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Gordon Croucher DFC, MiD 2024-05-21 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Alan Howard Durnin 2024-10-31 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Alexander Kay Imrie 2025-01-24 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Donal Thomas Ryan 2025-01-24 1944-July-29 PoW RAFVR Sergeant David Scott 2025-01-24 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Harold Edmund Truscott 2025-01-24 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Daniel Whitson 2025-01-24 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL688
s/n LL688
m/d 683
R
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 688
Hercules
Known Units: 426 Sqn
Used by No. 426 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "OW*R". Bombed Magdeburg on 21/22 January 1944. Failed to return from operation over Berlin on 28 January 1944, no survivors.last update: 2025-July-30
1944-January-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Ray Edgerton Countess 2024-05-04 1944-January-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Michael Kwas 2021-05-22 1944-January-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Victor Mitchell Lawson 2021-01-12 1944-January-28 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Leo Harkness Patterson 2021-01-12 1944-January-28 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Kjartan Ari Solmundsson 2021-01-12 1944-January-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Thomas Allan Thomson 2021-01-12 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL689
s/n LL689
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 689
Hercules
Known Units: ;115
With No. 115 Sqn. Missing on operation to Berlin 15/16 Feb 1944. 7 operational hourslast update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL690
s/n LL690
m/d 683
J
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 690
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL691
s/n LL691
m/d 683
D
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 691
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL692
s/n LL692
m/d 683
F
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 692
Hercules
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
1944-July-29 Evader RCAF Flight Lieutenant E A Campbell 2023-12-11 1944-July-29 Evader RCAF Flying Officer J E Chasinger 2024-02-08 1944-July-29 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Earl Frederick Garland 2021-05-13 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Roy Giffin 2024-03-14 1944-July-29 Evader RCAF Flight Sergeant Sam A Harvey 2021-05-24 1944-July-29 Evader RCAF Flight Sergeant Earl R Jones 2021-06-05 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL693
s/n LL693
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 693
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL694
s/n LL694
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 694
Hercules
Known Units: ;115
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL695
s/n LL695
m/d 683
A
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 695
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
Originally with No. 115 Sqn, then transferred to No. 514 Sqn (JI-A). Missing on operation to Duisburg 21/22 May 1944. 76 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL696
s/n LL696
m/d 683
A
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 696
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL697
s/n LL697
m/d 683
E
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 697
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn;514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL698
s/n LL698
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 698
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
Delivered to No. 514 Sqn (JI-J2) Feb/Mar 1944. Missing on operation to Nuremberg 30/31 Mar 1944. This was Bomber Command's worst night for aircraft losses: 108 were either shot down or crashed in England. This aircraft was the 14th shot down. The crew were on their 8th operation (Middlebrook).last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL699
s/n LL699
m/d 683
C
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 699
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn
Used by No. 408 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "EQ*C". Flew 1 operation. Failed to return from operation over Brunswick on 15 January 1944. 6 crew killed, one POW.last update: 2025-July-30
1944-January-14 KIA RCAF Sergeant Leo Augustave Carr 2024-01-07 1944-January-14 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Garry Deighton 2024-10-11 1944-January-14 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant William Reid Glen 2022-05-09 1944-January-14 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Anthony William Tattersfield 2022-05-09 1944-January-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Wilbert Harry Timmins 2022-05-09 1944-January-14 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Arthur Raymond Williams 2022-05-09 1944-January-14 KIA RCAF Sergeant Murray Lyle Wiper 2022-05-09 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL700
s/n LL700
m/d 683
R
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 700
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn;408 Sqn
Served with No. 426 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "OW*X", flew 11 operations. With this unit when it bombed Magdeburg on 21/22 January 1944. Served later with No. 408 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "EQ*H", "EQ*J", "EQ*R" and "EQ*X". Flew 43 operations with this unit, including one to Hamburg on 28/29 July 1944. Was transferred to 1668 HCU August 1944. Scrapped in March 1945.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL701
s/n LL701
m/d 683
F
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 701
Hercules
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL702
s/n LL702
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 702
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL703
s/n LL703
m/d 683
L
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 703
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL704
s/n LL704
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 704
Hercules
Known Units: ;115
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL716
s/n LL716
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 716
Hercules
Known Units: 514
Originally to No. 115 Sqn, then transferred to No. 514 Sqn (JI-G2). Missing on daylight operation to Bois de Casson, France 3 Aug 1944.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL717
s/n LL717
m/d 683
W
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 717
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn
Served with No. 408 (B) Squadron RCAF, coded EQ-F, EQ-W. Failed to return from first operation over Frankfurt am Main on 23 March 1944, shot down by night fighter. Came down near Usingen. No survivors.last update: 2025-July-30
1944-March-22 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer George Frederick Clough 2024-03-05 1944-March-22 KIA RAF Kenneth Lawrence Curtiss 2022-04-14 1944-March-22 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Hryhory Moroz 2021-09-23 1944-March-22 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Leonard Douglas Proctor 2024-06-22 1944-March-22 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Arthur Edward Rickert 2021-08-08 1944-March-22 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Spencer Elwood Woolhether 2024-07-12 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL718
s/n LL718
m/d 683
E
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 718
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn
Served with No. 408 (B) Squadron, 432 (B) Squadron RCAF, coded EQ-E (when lost) and QO-K. Completed 4 operations with No. 432 Squadron and 4 operations with No. 408 Squadron. Failed to return from operation over Stuttgart on 16 March 1944, no survivors.last update: 2025-July-30
1944-March-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Alexander Colborne Colville 2024-03-24 1944-March-16 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Dennis Vivian Davies 2024-10-31 1944-March-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Arthur Coles Kitchener Hodson 2022-04-14 1944-March-16 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Michael Yorke Zisslin Kalms 2022-04-14 1944-March-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Ian Fossen Reid 2022-04-14 1944-March-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Moody Albert Siddons 2022-04-14 1944-March-16 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Francis Ernest Albert Smith 2022-04-14 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL719
s/n LL719
m/d 683
V
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 719
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn
Served with No. 432 (B) Squadron RCAF, coded QO-U. With No. 408 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "EQ*V" when lost. Failed to return from operation over Leipzig on 20 February 1944, no survivors.last update: 2025-July-30
1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Ivan Bowden 2024-11-16 1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Ralph Gordon Kelly 2025-02-04 1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Gordon William McKay Richter 2025-02-04 1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Sherman Lewis Roach 2025-02-04 1944-February-20 KIA RAFVR Pilot officer Charles William George Roberts 2025-02-04 1944-February-20 KIA RAF Sergeant Frederick George Skeet 2025-02-04 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL720
s/n LL720
m/d 683
R
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 720
Hercules
Known Units: ;408
Served with No. 408 (B) Squadron RCAF from 29 December 1943, coded "EQ-R" when lost. 18 operations flown. Failed to return from operation over Leipzig on 20 February 1944, no survivors.last update: 2025-July-30
Bombing Leipzig Germany 1944-02-20 to 1944-02-20
(B) Sqn (RCAF) Linton-on-Ouse
Battle of Berlin
Leipzig. 823 aircraft, 78 losses (9.5%). Excluding early returners, the Halifax loss rate was 14.9%. As a result, Halifax Mks II and V were permanently withdrawn from service over Germany. The Kiel mine laying diversion was successful in drawing off fighters, but the German controllers only sent half of the available aircraft. As soon as the bomber stream crossed the Dutch coast they were confronted by the remaining half of the fighters and, moreover, the ones sent to Kiel were returned to join the fray. As a consequence, the fighters steadily picked off bombers all the way to this distant target. The winds were strongly than had been predicted and many bombers arrived early and had to orbit the target awaiting the Pathfinders, further increasing the likelihood of being picked off, either by flak or fighters. Leipzig was cloud covered and sky-marking had to be used. Early bombing appeared to be concentrated but later bombing less so. There was no local report nor a reconnaissance flight the following day. An American raid the following day then made it impossible to judge the effectiveness of the raid.
source: International Bomber Command Centre
Lancaster aircraft LL 720 (EQ-R) was shot down in the sea during a night trip to Leipzig, Germany, F/L. E.S. Winn, F/0.s. J.R. Leaman, J.R. Bonneville, P/Os. R.H. Wade, Dramnitzke, TS. N.H,H. Brown (USAAF), and Sgt. E.W. Bolt (RAF) were all killed. 1944-February-20 KIA RAF Sergeant Ellis William Bolt 2024-11-14 1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Raymond Bonneville 2024-11-14 1944-February-20 KIA USAAF Norman Henry Hanbridge Brown PH 2024-11-21 1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Eldore Dramnitzke 2024-10-28 1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Flying Officer James Richard Leaman 2025-01-27 1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Reginald Herbert Wade 2025-01-27 1944-February-20 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Elmer Stanley Winn 2025-01-27 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL721
s/n LL721
m/d 683
U
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 721
Hercules
Known Units: 426 Sqn
Served with No. 426 (B) Squadron RCAF, coded "OW-U". Bombed Berlin on 20/21 January 1944. Bombed Magdeburg on 21/22 January 1944. Failed to return from operation over Berlin on 28 January 1944, shot down by a night fighter. 4 crew were killed and 3 POW.last update: 2025-July-30
1944-January-27 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Alfred Carlson 2023-12-30 1944-January-27 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Murdo Norman MacDonald 2024-04-22 1944-January-27 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Arnold Park 2024-04-24 1944-January-27 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Henry Power 2023-09-25 1944-January-27 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant Joseph Pierre Amedee RollandR St Jacques 2023-10-01 1944-January-27 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Clare Wilson 2023-08-19 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL722
s/n LL722
m/d 683
U
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 722
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn;1668 HCU
Served with No. 408 (B) Squadron RCAF, coded "EQ-N". Named Lady Be Good, 55 operations flown. Bombed rail yards at Haine St. Pierre on 8/9 May 1944. Attacked by fighter, no damage. Attack on German positions around Caen on 7/8 August 1944. Attacked by a Ju 88, slight damage.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL723
s/n LL723
m/d 683
H
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 723
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn
With No. 432 (B) Squadron RCAF, coded "QO-H". Flew 5 operations with this Squadron. Later served with No. 408 (B) Squadron, coded "EQ*H" when it bombed Frankfurt on 18/19 March 1944. Flew 22 operations flown with No. 408 Squadron. Failed to return from operation over Dortmund on 22 / 23 May 1944. Reported as shot down by night fighter, also reported as destroyed by an explosion following a flak hit. Most likely shot down by Fw190, exploding in flight while flak crews held their fire because of the presence of the Fw. Bomb load detonated when fuselage came down, causing wide spread fires and damage. All crew dead, including Squadron CO W/C D.S. Jacobs. Came down at Westrup, 4 kilometres east-south-east of Haltern.last update: 2025-July-30
Bombing Dortmund Germany 1944-05-22 to 1944-05-23
408 (B) Sqn (RCAF) RAF Linton-on-Ouse
408 Goose Squadron (For Freedom) RAF Linton-on-Ouse. Lancaster II aircraft LL 723 EQ-H was shot down by night fighter pilot Major Hans Karlewski of 2/NJG1 during an operation against targets in Dortmund, Germany. The Lancaster crashed four and three quarters miles south-west of Dulman, Germany with the loss of the entire crew
Wing Commander David Sinclair Jacobs DFC (RCAF), Flight Lieutenant Thom Ross McDougall DFC & Bar (RCAF), Flying Officer James Boustead Dallyn (RCAF), Flight Lieutenant James Robert Hanson DFC (RCAF), Flight Sergeant Joseph Philip Young (RCAF), Pilot Officer Maxwell Henderson (RAFVR) and Pilot Officer William George Philpot (RAFVR), Flight Sergeant Joseph Philip Young (RCAF), Flying Officer Lancelot Eric Morgan (Australia)(RCAF) and Flying Officer Peter Malcolm Hughes (RAFVR) were all killed in action.
Flight Sergeant Young, Flight Lieutenant Hanson and Flying Officer Morgan could not be identified post-war and have no known grave, but all are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
Addendum: detail from David E Thompson stated there were nine aircrew onboard at time of event, confirmed by Squadron ORB
Wing Commander Jacobs was the commanding officer of 408 Squadron at the time of his death while Flight Lieutenant Hanson and Flight Lieutenant McDougall were the Squadron Gunnery and Navigation Leaders and Pilot Officer Philpot (RAFVR) was the Deputy Gunnery Leader
There were two 408 Squadron aircraft lost this night. Please see aircraft serial DS 759 EQ-A for detail regarding this aircraft and crew
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 3 12 May - 23 July by Theo Boiten, page 19
1944-May-23 KIA RCAF Flying Officer James Boustead Dallyn 2025-01-16 1944-May-23 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant James Robert Hanson DFC 2025-01-18 1944-May-23 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer Maxwell Henderson 2025-01-16 1944-May-23 KIA RAFVR Flying Officer Peter Malcolm Hughes 2025-01-16 1944-May-23 KIA RCAF Wing Commander David Sinclair Jacobs DFC 2025-01-16 1944-May-23 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Thom Ross McDougall DFC & Bar 2025-01-16
1944-May-23 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Lancelot Eric Morgan 2025-01-18 1944-May-23 KIA RAFVR Flying Officer William George Philpot 2025-01-18 1944-May-23 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Philip Young 2025-01-18 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL724
s/n LL724
m/d 683
N
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 724
Hercules
Known Units: ;432
last update: 2025-August-02
Bombing Magdeburg Germany 1944-01-21 to 1944-01-21
(B) Sqn (RCAF) East Moor
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, 8·8 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 15·6 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 BII aircraft LL 724 QO-N was shot down one and one half miles south-east of the aerodrome at Wesendorf, Germany whilst carrying out night operations against the synthetic oil plants at Magdeburg, Germany, shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Wolfgang Knieling of the 4/NJG 5, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4. The Lancaster crashed near Wagenhoff, Niedersachsen, Germany with the loss of the entire crew
Flying Officer LF Legace (RCAF), Flying Officer JB Mahoney (RCAF), Flying Officer DR Hunter (RCAF),Warrant Officer DA McDonald, Pilot Officer WJ Douglas (RCAF)(USA), FS WA Peterson (RCAF), and Sergeant WG Atkins (RAFVR) were all killed in action
There were two 432 Squadron Lancaster II aircraft lost on this operation. Please see Pocock, DL for information on Lancaster DS 843 QO-O
1944-January-22 Failed to Return Failed to return from operation over Magdeburg, no survivors. 2019-08-20
1944-January-21 KIA RAFVR Sergeant William Goodson Atkins 2024-10-28 1944-January-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William John Douglas 2024-10-28 1944-January-21 KIA RCAF Flying Officer David Renwick Hunter 2024-10-28 1944-January-21 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Lawrence Firge Legace 2024-10-28 1944-January-21 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Burke Mahoney 2024-10-28 1944-January-21 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 Donald Allan McDonald 2024-10-28 1944-January-21 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant William Alexander Peterson 2024-10-28 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL725
s/n LL725
m/d 683
Z
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 725
Hercules
Known Units: 408 Sqn;408 Sqn
Served with No. 408 (B) Squadron, 432 (B) Squadron RCAF, coded (408) EQ-C and EQ-Z, (432) QO-O. 3 operations flown with No. 432 Squadron and 42 operations flown with No. 408 Squadron. Coded "EQ*Z" when it bombed V-1 storage site at Nucort, France and launching site at Bois de Jardines on 15/16 July 1944. Coded "EQ*C" when lost. Hamburg. 307 aircraft. German night-fighters appeared on the return leg leading to 22 losses (7.2%). This was the first raid on Hamburg for a year and was not well concentrated. The Germans were unable to determine the aiming point from the bombing results. Most of the bombs fell on areas devastated during 1943. Failed to return from operation on 28/29 July 1944, no survivors.last update: 2025-July-30
1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Gordon Everett Cameron 2023-12-07 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Candline 2023-12-17 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Lorne Francis Cassidy 2024-01-20 1944-July-29 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Francis Fearns 2021-06-06 1944-July-29 KIA RAFVR Sergeant George Richard Harvey 2021-06-06 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Arthur Frank Marsden 2021-05-25 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Harold Alexander McCaffrey DFC 2021-05-25 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Rex Harris Mitchell 2021-05-25 Lancaster Mk.II serial LL726
s/n LL726
m/d 683
H
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 726
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL727
s/n LL727
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 727
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL728
s/n LL728
m/d 683
B
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 728
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL729
s/n LL729
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 729
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL730
s/n LL730
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 730
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL731
s/n LL731
m/d 683
U
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 731
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn;514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL732
s/n LL732
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 732
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn;514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL733
s/n LL733
m/d 683
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 733
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn;514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL734
s/n LL734
m/d 683
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 734
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn;514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL735
s/n LL735
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 735
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL736
s/n LL736
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 736
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL737
s/n LL737
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 737
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL738
s/n LL738
m/d 683
D
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 738
Hercules
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.II serial LL739
s/n LL739
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 739
Hercules
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL740
s/n LL740
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 740
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL741
s/n LL741
m/d 683
X
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 741
Merlin
Known Units: 50 Sqn
Delivered to No. 50 Sqn Nov 1943. Missing on operation to Gravenhorst 21/22 Feb 1945 (Mason). Robertson says "aircraft crashed and burnt" on the same date. Apparently on 92nd operation.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL742
s/n LL742
m/d 683
D
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 742
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL743
s/n LL743
m/d 683
U
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 743
Merlin
Known Units: 166 Sqn;166 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL744
s/n LL744
m/d 683
B
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 744
Merlin
Known Units: 50 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL745
s/n LL745
m/d 683
M
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 745
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL746
s/n LL746
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 746
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL747
s/n LL747
m/d 683
P
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 747
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL748
s/n LL748
m/d 683
D
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 748
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL749
s/n LL749
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 749
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL750
s/n LL750
m/d 683
P
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 750
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
Delivered to No. 101 Sqn (SR-P) from No. 32 MU Mar 1944. Missing on operation to Friedrichshafen 27/28 Apr 1944. 35 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL751
s/n LL751
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 751
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL752
s/n LL752
m/d 683
A
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 752
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
Delivered to No. 15 Sqn from 32 MU Mar 1944. Missing on mission to Louvain 11/12 May 1944. 69 flying hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL753
s/n LL753
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 753
Merlin
Known Units: ;626
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL754
s/n LL754
m/d 683
P
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 754
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL755
s/n LL755
m/d 683
U
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 755
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL756
s/n LL756
m/d 683
Q
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 756
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL757
s/n LL757
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 757
Merlin
Known Units: 101
Delivered to No. 101 Sqn (SR-W) from No. 32 MU Apr 1944. Equipped with ABC radio jamming equipment. Missing on operation to Stettin 29/30 Aug 1944. 214 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL758
s/n LL758
m/d 683
A
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 758
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster serial LL765
s/n LL765
m/d 683
Z
LL 765
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL771
s/n LL771
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 771
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL772
s/n LL772
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 772
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn;626 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL773
s/n LL773
m/d 683
U
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 773
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL774
s/n LL774
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 774
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
With No. 101 Sqn (SR-U). Equipped with ABC Radio Counter Measures equipment. Had minor crashes Apr & May 1944. Missing on operation to Duisburg 14/15 Oct 1944last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL775
s/n LL775
m/d 683
O
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 775
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL776
s/n LL776
m/d 683
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 776
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
Delivered to No. 207 Sqn (EM-S) Jan 1944. Missing on operation to Brunswick 22/23 May 1944. 206 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL777
s/n LL777
m/d 683
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 777
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL778
s/n LL778
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 778
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL779
s/n LL779
m/d 683
V
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 779
Merlin
Known Units: 101
Delivered to No. 101 Sqn (SR-V) from No. 32 MU Feb 1944. Missing on operation to Homburg 20/21 Jul 1944. 193 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL780
s/n LL780
m/d 683
N
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 780
Merlin
Known Units: CBE
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL781
s/n LL781
m/d 683
L
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 781
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn;15 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL782
s/n LL782
m/d 683
H
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 782
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn
Delivered to No. 622 Sqn 21 Jan 1944. Missing on attack on Trappes 31 May/1 Jun 1944. 191 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL783
s/n LL783
m/d 683
G
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 783
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL784
s/n LL784
m/d 683
M
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 784
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL785
s/n LL785
m/d 683
F
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 785
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL786
s/n LL786
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 786
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL787
s/n LL787
m/d 683
Y
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 787
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL788
s/n LL788
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 788
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL789
s/n LL789
m/d 683
P
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 789
Merlin
Known Units: ;467
last update: 2025-August-02
Bombing Stuttgart Germany 1944-09-12 to 1944-09-12
467 (B) Sqn (RAAF) RAF Waddington, England
467 Australia Squadron. Lancaster aircraft LL 789 went missing during an attack against Stuttgart, Germany. Killed were RCAF Flt. Sgt. E.K. Bulloch; RAAF Sgt's. P. Callow, G.T. Kirby, and R.G. Symonds; and RAF Sgt. T. Ballantyne. Taken Prisoners of War was RAAF Flying Officer A.L. Bright.Lancaster Mk.I serial LL790
s/n LL790
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 790
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL791
s/n LL791
m/d 683
O
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 791
Merlin
Known Units: ;50
last update: 2025-August-02
Bombing Augsburg Germany 1944-02-25 to 1944-02-26
50 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Skellingthorpe
50 Squadron (Sic Fidem Servamus) RAF Skellingthorpe. Lancaster BI aircraft LL 791 VN-O was attacked by two night fighters during an operation against targets in Augsburg, Germany. A fire started in the bomb bay when incendiaries caught fire, which was also fed by hydraulic fluid and with the bomber uncontrollable, the order to bail was given. The aircraft crashed near Embermenil, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
Sergeant KE Gilson (RAFVR) was killed when he bailed from the aircraft, possibly due to a parachute malfunction
Pilot Officer J Acthim (RCAF), Flight Sergeant J Ansell (RAAF, Flight Sergeant DT Balmanno (RAAF), Sergeant TJ Taylor (RAF) and Pilot Officer WH Taylor (RAF) and Sergeant HS Cammish (RAF) survived and evaded with the aid of the French Underground until five of the six were captured 1944-04-21 at Luchon, near the French-Spanish border, part of a group of 30-35 evaders who were captured at this time and became Prisoners of War. Only Sergeant Cammish continued to escape capture as an Evader
1944-February-26 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer John Acthim 2023-11-18 1944-February-26 PoW RAAF John Ansell 2024-08-01 1944-February-26 PoW RAAF Flight Sergeant David Thomas Balmanno 2024-08-01 1944-February-26 Evader RAF Sergeant Harrison Stanley Cammish 2023-12-10 1944-February-26 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Kenneth Edric Gilson 2023-04-17 1944-February-26 PoW RAF Sergeant Thomas James Taylor 2024-08-01 1944-February-26 PoW RAF Pilot Officer William Herbert Taylor 2023-04-17 Lancaster Mk.I serial LL792
s/n LL792
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 792
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL793
s/n LL793
m/d 683
Q
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 793
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL794
s/n LL794
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 794
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL795
s/n LL795
m/d 683
Q
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 795
Merlin
Known Units: 463 Sqn;1660 HCU
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL796
s/n LL796
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 796
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL797
s/n LL797
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 797
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL798
s/n LL798
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 798
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL799
s/n LL799
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 799
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
To No. 576 Sqn (UL-H2, later UL-N2) Jan or Feb 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 1944. 346 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL800
s/n LL800
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 800
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn;576 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL801
s/n LL801
m/d 683
J
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 801
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL802
s/n LL802
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 802
Merlin
Known Units: ;622
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL803
s/n LL803
m/d 683
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 803
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn;622 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL804
s/n LL804
m/d 683
F
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 804
Merlin
Known Units: 300 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL805
s/n LL805
m/d 683
M
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 805
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
Delivered to No.15 Sqn 21 Apr 1944. Missing on operation to Friedrichshafen 27/28 Apr 1944. 11 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL806
s/n LL806
m/d 683
J
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 806
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL807
s/n LL807
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 807
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL808
s/n LL808
m/d 683
D
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 808
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL809
s/n LL809
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 809
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL810
s/n LL810
m/d 683
K
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 810
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
Delivered to No. 550 Sqn 1 May 1944. Missing on operation to Aachen 27/28 May 1944. 43 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL811
s/n LL811
m/d 683
J
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 811
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL812
s/n LL812
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 812
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL813
s/n LL813
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 813
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL826
s/n LL826
m/d 683
H
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 826
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
Delivered to No. 550 Sqn (BQ-H) Feb 1944. Missing on operation to Mailly-le-Camp 3/4 May 1944. 144 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL827
s/n LL827
m/d 683
Q
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 827
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn;15 Sqn;15 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL828
s/n LL828
m/d 683
J
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 828
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL829
s/n LL829
m/d 683
J
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 829
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL830
s/n LL830
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 830
Merlin
Known Units: ;576
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL831
s/n LL831
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 831
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL832
s/n LL832
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 832
Merlin
Known Units: 101
To No. 101 Sqn from No. 32 MU Feb 1944. Equipped with ABC jamming equipment. Missing on the raid to Nuremberg 30/31 Mar 1944. This was the raid with the worst casualty list of all Bomber Command's operations: 108 aircraft were shot down or crashed. LL832 was the 17th aircraft lost, shot down by Flak over Koblenz. The crew were on their 10th operation.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL833
s/n LL833
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 833
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL834
s/n LL834
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 834
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL835
s/n LL835
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 835
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL836
s/n LL836
m/d 683
E
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 836
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
With No. 550 Sqn (BQ-E). Missing on operation to Aulnoye, France 10/11 April 1944. 40 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL837
s/n LL837
m/d 683
Q
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 837
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL838
s/n LL838
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 838
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL839
s/n LL839
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 839
Merlin
Known Units: ;626
last update: 2025-August-02
Bombing Essen Germany 1944-03-26 to 1944-03-27
(B) Sqn (RCAF) Wickenby
Battle of Berlin
705 aircraft - 476 Lancasters, 207 Halifaxes, 22 Mosquitoes. The sudden switch by Bomber Command to a Ruhr target just across the German frontier caught the German fighter controllers by surprise and only 9 aircraft- 6 Lancasters, 3 Halifaxes - were lost, 1·3 per cent of the force.
Essen was covered by cloud but the Oboe Mosquitoes marked the target well and this was a successful attack. 48 industrial buildings were seriously damaged and 1,756 houses destroyed. 550 people were killed, 49 missing and 1,569 were injured. .The figures for killed and missing are broken down in the Essen report as follows:
Germans - 192 women, 155 men, 27 children, 6 soldiers, 4 policemen and 2 Hitler Youth. Foreigners - 74 forced workers and I prisoner of war. The remaining 138 victims were mixed German and foreign concentration-camp prisoners, large numbers of whom were now providing the labour forces in German factories.
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
1944-March-27 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Charles Banks 2024-11-07 1944-March-27 KIA RAAF Flight Sergeant Augustine Francis Drummond 2024-11-07 1944-March-27 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Kenneth William Gordon 2024-11-07 1944-March-27 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Douglas Bartholomew Laidlaw 2024-11-07 1944-March-27 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Sydney Lockett 2024-11-07 1944-March-27 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Harold Walter Parsons 2024-11-07 Lancaster Mk.I serial LL840
s/n LL840
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 840
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL841
s/n LL841
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 841
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL842
s/n LL842
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 842
Merlin
Known Units: ;50
Delivered to No. 50 Sqn Feb 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 24/25 Jul 1944. 378 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL843
s/n LL843
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 843
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL844
s/n LL844
m/d 683
R
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 844
Merlin
Known Units: 463 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL845
s/n LL845
m/d 683
L
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 845
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL846
s/n LL846
m/d 683
V
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 846
Merlin
Known Units: ;467
last update: 2025-August-02
Bombing Stuttgart Germany 1944-07-29 to 1944-07-29
467 (B) Sqn (RAAF) RAF Waddington, England
467 Australian Squadron. Lancaster Mk I LL846 took off from RAF Waddington on 28 July 1944 on a mission to Stuttgart, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off. Subsequent reports indicated LL846 crashed at sea 5 miles off Le Havre, France, after being hit by flak.
From RAAF:
The crew members of LL846 were:
- Flying Officer Arthur Henry Birch (171883) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner) PoW
- Flying Officer Samuel Johns (425021) (Pilot) PoW, Discharged from the RAAF: 26 November 1946
- Flying Officer C E Langstone (J/27488) (RCAF) (Navigator) PoW
- Flight Sergeant Bruce Peter Molloy (419472) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner) PoW, Discharged from the RAAF: 7 February 1946
- Flight Sergeant Matthew John O'Leary (426379) (Bomb Aimer) PoW, Discharged from the RAAF: 14 September 1945
- Sergeant Desmond Kenneth James Phillips (1866742) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
- Sergeant Bryan Robert John Pring (1853987) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner) PoW
It was later established that the aircraft ditched and that Sergeant Phillips sustained severe head injuries and was unable to get into the dinghy despite valiant efforts by Flying Officer Johns to get his colleague on board. By morning the Flight Engineer could no longer be seen and he is presumed to have drowned. The other six members of the crew became PoWs.
In a later report by the then Warrant Officer O'Leary he stated "was being marched westwards by the Germans ahead of advancing Russian troops. With two other RAAF companions they fell out in a village pleading exhaustion and waited there fourteen days for the advancing Russians. They were then marched back 45 miles to a reception centre and later taken by motor lorry and train to Poland, and subsequently Odessa."
In his report Warrant Officer Molloy stated "The aircraft was hit by flak about 6000 feet at Le Havre as we were first heading for UK. Flames were coming from the port wing which would have broken off but for the Skippers presence of mind who immediately put the aircraft down and made a perfect ditching 5 miles off Le Havre. All got out but the Engineer was badly smashed up during the ditching and disappeared from us and was not seen again. Six of us spent three days in the dinghy. I was a POW all the time until released by the Russians from German POW Camp."
Sergeant Phillips who was listed as missing is commemorated on the Memorial to the Missing at Runnymede, Surrey, UK.
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL847
s/n LL847
m/d 683
D
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 847
Merlin
Known Units: 463 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL848
s/n LL848
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 848
Merlin
Known Units: ;463
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL849
s/n LL849
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 849
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL850
s/n LL850
m/d 683
L
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 850
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL851
s/n LL851
m/d 683
V
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 851
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
Delivered to No. 550 Sqn (BQ-V) Mar 1944. Missing on operation to Duisburg 21/22 May 1944. 126 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL852
s/n LL852
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 852
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL853
s/n LL853
m/d 683
W
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 853
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL854
s/n LL854
m/d 683
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 854
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn;15 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL855
s/n LL855
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 855
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL856
s/n LL856
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 856
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL857
s/n LL857
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 857
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL858
s/n LL858
m/d 683
N
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 858
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL859
s/n LL859
m/d 683
N
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 859
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn
Delivered to No. 622 Sqn (GI-U) 12 Mar 1944. Missing on operation to Homburg 20/21 Jul 1944. 225 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL860
s/n LL860
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 860
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL861
s/n LL861
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 861
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL862
s/n LL862
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 862
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
Delivered to No. 101 Sqn (SR-L, later SR-K) from No. 32 MU Mar 1944. Equipped with ABC jamming equipment. Missing on operation to Homburg 20/21 Jul 1944. 122 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
1944-July-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Ernest Elroy Boyle 2024-11-16 1944-July-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Glenn Thomas Douglas 2024-10-28 1944-July-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Dominic Ianuziello 2025-02-17 1944-July-21 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Daniel Lewis Walter Meier 2025-02-17 1944-July-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Jack Elwin Mcintosh Nixon 2025-02-17 Lancaster B. Mk. I serial LL862
s/n LL862
m/d 683
LL 862
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL863
s/n LL863
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 863
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL864
s/n LL864
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 864
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL865
s/n LL865
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 865
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL866
s/n LL866
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 866
Merlin
Known Units: 75
Lancaster LL866 lost on bombing mission to Russelsheim, Germany August 25th/26th, 1944.
Reported as having collided mid air with Lancaster KB755. All but one crew from both aircraft were killed. Flying Officer Howard Witwer was the only survivor from KB775 he was captured POW,
last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL867
s/n LL867
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 867
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL880
s/n LL880
m/d 683
D
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 880
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL881
s/n LL881
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 881
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL882
s/n LL882
m/d 683
L
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 882
Merlin
Known Units: 463 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL883
s/n LL883
m/d 683
C
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 883
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL884
s/n LL884
m/d 683
Q
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 884
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL885
s/n LL885
m/d 683
J
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 885
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL886
s/n LL886
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 886
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL887
s/n LL887
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 887
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL888
s/n LL888
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 888
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL889
s/n LL889
m/d 683
L
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 889
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn;15 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL890
s/n LL890
m/d 683
T
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 890
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL891
s/n LL891
m/d 683
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 891
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn
Delivered to No. 106 Sqn (ZN-S) 26 Mar 1944. Missing on operation to Salbris, France 7/8 May 1944.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL892
s/n LL892
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 892
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL893
s/n LL893
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 893
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL894
s/n LL894
m/d 683
T
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 894
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
Delivered to No. 625 Sqn (CF-T) 26 Mar 1944. Missing on mining sortie 15/16 May 1944. 110 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL895
s/n LL895
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 895
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL896
s/n LL896
m/d 683
R
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 896
Merlin
Known Units: 166
Delivered to No. 166 Sqn Mar 1944. Missing on operation to Revigny-sur-Ornain 12/13 Jul 1944. 216 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL897
s/n LL897
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 897
Merlin
Known Units: ;625
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL898
s/n LL898
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 898
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL899
s/n LL899
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 899
Merlin
Known Units: 49
Delivered to No. 49 Sqn 30 Mar 1944. Missing on operation to Aachen 11/12 Apr 1944. 15 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL900
s/n LL900
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 900
Merlin
Known Units: ;49
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL901
s/n LL901
m/d 683
V
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 901
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL902
s/n LL902
m/d 683
A
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 902
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL903
s/n LL903
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 903
Merlin
Known Units: ;166
Delivered to No. 166 Sqn Mar 1944. Missing on operation to Friedrichshaven 27/28 Apr 1944. 42 Operational hourslast update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL904
s/n LL904
m/d 683
R
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 904
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL905
s/n LL905
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 905
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
Delivered to No. 576 Sqn (UL-H2). Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 1944. 249 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Bombing Stuttgart Germany 1944-07-28 to 1944-07-29
576 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Elsham Woods
576 Squadron (Carpe Diem) RAF Elsham Woods. Lancaster I aircraft LL 905 UL-H2 was lost during a night raid against targets in Stuttgart, Germany. The Lancaster was shot down by a German night fighter and crashed six miles south-east of Saaralben, Alsace Lorraine between Saarewerden (Bas-Rhin) and Rimsdorf, France
Their are two claims for this Lancaster, either Hauptmann Martin Becker of the 2/NJG6 (flying Bf 110 G-4 2Z+MK) or Unteroffizier Egon Engling of the 8/NJG2
Flying Officer Edward James Mann DFC (RCAF), Flight Sergeant Donald Irwin MacVicar (RCAF), Flight Sergeant Leslie Mutton (RAAF) and Sergeant Reginald Alan Wellesley Roberts (RAFVR) were all killed in action
Flying Officer Anton Novak (RCAF), Flight Sergeant Francis Thomas McCann (RAFVR) and Sergeant William Thomas Doidge (RAFVR) survived to become Prisoners of War
There were four 576 Squadron Lancaster aircraft lost this same date. The other Lancaster aircraft were serials PB 128 UL-S2, LL 799 UL-N2 and PB 253 UL-A2
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 4 24 July - 15 October by Theo Boiten, page 22
1 Group Bomber Command an Operarional Record by Chris Ward with Greg Harrison and Grzegorz Korcz
1944-July-29 PoW RAFVR Sergeant William Thomas Doidge 2025-04-17 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Irwin MacVicar 2025-01-29 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Edward James Mann DFC 2025-01-29 1944-July-29 PoW RAFVR Flight Sergeant Francis Thomas McCann 2025-01-29 1944-July-29 KIA RAAF Flight Sergeant Leslie Mutton 2025-01-29 1944-July-29 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Anton Novak 2025-01-29 1944-July-29 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Reginald Alan Wellesley Roberts 2025-01-29 Lancaster Mk.I serial LL906
s/n LL906
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 906
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL907
s/n LL907
m/d 683
Q
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 907
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn;1653 HCU
last update: 2025-August-02
Bombing Caen France 1944-07-07 to 1944-07-07
460 () ()
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster LL907 was on a mission to support the Normandy landings near Caen, France. Lancaster LL907 collided with Lancaster LM124 from 103 Squadron, but both aircraft returned safely to their bases. RCAF Pilot Officer F.L. Bertuch and Pilot Officer R.E. Lemmon (air gunner) both bailed out after the collision. Lemmon was killed either during descent or soon after capture. Bertuch was taken Prisoner of War. The other crew members returned safely to base: RAVR Sgt's. G.W. Carney, G.H. Smith, and M.J. Woodcroft; RAF Flt. Sgt. C.J. Henderson and W/O G.E.M. Lindenberg (DFC).Lancaster Mk.I serial LL908
s/n LL908
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 908
Merlin
Known Units: ;49
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL909
s/n LL909
m/d 683
Y
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 909
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
Delivered to No. 12 Sqn (PH-Y) Apr 1944. Missing on daylight operation to Duisburg 14 Oct 1944. 307 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL910
s/n LL910
m/d 683
A
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 910
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL911
s/n LL911
m/d 683
X
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 911
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL912
s/n LL912
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 912
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL913
s/n LL913
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 913
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL914
s/n LL914
m/d 683
V
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 914
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL915
s/n LL915
m/d 683
V
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 915
Merlin
Known Units: 100 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL916
s/n LL916
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 916
Merlin
Known Units: 166
Delivered to No. 166 Sqn Apr 1944. Missing on mission to Aachen 27/28 May 1944. 49 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL917
s/n LL917
m/d 683
C
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 917
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL918
s/n LL918
m/d 683
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 918
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL919
s/n LL919
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 919
Merlin
Known Units: ;619
Delivered to No. 619 Sqn (PG-W) Apr 1944. Missing on operation to Schweinfurt 26/27 Apr 1944.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL920
s/n LL920
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 920
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL921
s/n LL921
m/d 683
E
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 921
Merlin
Known Units: ;75
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL922
s/n LL922
m/d 683
T
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 922
Merlin
Known Units: 50
Delivered to No. 50 Sqn (VN-T) Apr 1944. Missing on operation to Secqueville, France 7/8 Aug 1944.321 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL923
s/n LL923
m/d 683
O
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 923
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL935
s/n LL935
m/d 683
N
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 935
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn;115 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL936
s/n LL936
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 936
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL937
s/n LL937
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 937
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL938
s/n LL938
m/d 683
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 938
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL939
s/n LL939
m/d 683
H
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 939
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL940
s/n LL940
m/d 683
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 940
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL941
s/n LL941
m/d 683
E
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 941
Merlin
Known Units: 103 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL942
s/n LL942
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 942
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL943
s/n LL943
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 943
Merlin
Known Units: ;115
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL944
s/n LL944
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 944
Merlin
Known Units: 115
Delivered to No. 115 Sqn Apr 1944. Missing on daylight operation to Siegen, Germany 16 Dec 1944.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL945
s/n LL945
m/d 683
M
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 945
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL946
s/n LL946
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 946
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL947
s/n LL947
m/d 683
W
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 947
Merlin
Known Units: 300 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL948
s/n LL948
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 948
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL949
s/n LL949
m/d 683
E
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 949
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL950
s/n LL950
m/d 683
Y
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 950
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL951
s/n LL951
m/d 683
C
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 951
Merlin
Known Units: 460
Delivered to No. 460 (Australian) Sqn Apr 1944. Missing on operation to Duisburg 21/22 May 1944. 34 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Bombing Duisburg Germany 1944-05-22 to 1944-05-22
460 () Sqn (RAAF) RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft LL 951 was delivered to 460 Squadron in Apr 1944. Homeward-bound after night operations against Duisburg, Germany, it was shot down by a night fighter. Casualties included RCAF Flying Officer R.E. McDougall (pilot); RAFVR Sgt's. H.R. Elsbury (air gunner), J. Herkes (wireless operator / air gunner), and W.F. O'Neill (air gunner); and Flt. Sgt. R.R. Bunker (navigator). Taken Prisoners of War were RAF Sgt. W.S. Leaney and RAF Flying Officer E. O'Donoghue.Lancaster Mk.I serial LL952
s/n LL952
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 952
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL953
s/n LL953
m/d 683
O
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 953
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn;106 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL954
s/n LL954
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 954
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL955
s/n LL955
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 955
Merlin
Known Units: 106
Delivered to No. 106 Sqn Apr 1944. Missing on operation to Gelsenkirchen 21/22 Jun 1944. 116 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL956
s/n LL956
m/d 683
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 956
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL957
s/n LL957
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 957
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL958
s/n LL958
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 958
Merlin
Known Units: 100
Delivered to No. 100 Sqn May 1944. Missing on operation to Vierzon 30 Jun/1 Jul 1944.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL959
s/n LL959
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 959
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
Delivered to No. 300 Sqn, then transferred to No. 625 Sqn. Missing on operation to Merseburg 14/15 Jan 1945. Mason has Sqn Code as CF-A2, Robertson has UM-A2. Both codes were used for No. 625 Sqn (Wikipedia).last update: 2025-July-30
1945-January-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Vernon Harvey Halstead 2024-04-21 1945-January-15 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Cyril Clinton Merriman 2021-08-16 1945-January-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Thomas Robertson Murray DFC 2024-04-23 1945-January-15 PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant D S Nelson 2023-09-19 1945-January-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Andrew Morrison Orr Walker 2021-07-12 Lancaster Mk.I serial LL960
s/n LL960
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 960
Merlin
Known Units: 100
Delivered to No. 100 Sqn May 1944. Missing on operation to Duisburg 21/22 May 1944. 21 operational hourslast update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL961
s/n LL961
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 961
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
With No. 626 Sqn (UM-S2). Missing on operation to Munich 7 Jan 1945. Believed to have collided with another aircraft, and crashed near Laon, France.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL962
s/n LL962
m/d 683
U
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 962
Merlin
Known Units: 625
Delivered to No. 625 Sqn (CF-U) May 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 1944. 189 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL963
s/n LL963
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 963
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL964
s/n LL964
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 964
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL965
s/n LL965
m/d 683
V
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 965
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn;44 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL966
s/n LL966
m/d 683
P
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 966
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL967
s/n LL967
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 967
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL968
s/n LL968
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 968
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL969
s/n LL969
m/d 683
G
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 969
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
Delivered to No. 619 Sqn (PG-G) May 1944. Missing on operation to Revigny, France 18/19 Jul 1944. 134 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL970
s/n LL970
m/d 683
Y
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 970
Merlin
Known Units: 9
With No. 9 Sqn. Missing on operation to Prouville, France 24/25 Jun 1944.last update: 2025-July-30
1944-June-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Lawrence Albert Dolby 2024-10-24 1944-June-25 Evader RCAF Sergeant Douglas Raymond Grant 2022-05-10 1944-June-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant John Elias Jones 2023-09-11 1944-June-25 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant Arthur Jack Lewis 2023-12-17 1944-June-25 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Harold Oliver Rae 2024-02-15 1944-June-25 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Francis Lawrence Rey 2023-09-12 1944-June-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant William Hubert Wells 2023-12-17 Lancaster Mk.I serial LL971
s/n LL971
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 971
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL972
s/n LL972
m/d 683
T
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 972
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL973
s/n LL973
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 973
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL974
s/n LL974
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 974
Merlin
Known Units: ;108
Delivered to No. 106 Sqn May 1944. Missing on operation to Vitry-la-Francois, 27/28 Jun 1944. 116 operational hours.last update: 2025-July-30
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL975
s/n LL975
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 975
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL976
s/n LL976
m/d 683
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 976
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-August-02
Lancaster Mk.I serial LL977
s/n LL977
m/d 683
H
Armstrong Whitworth
LL 977
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-August-02