Lancaster (Total: 7,377, Canadian: 510, Group 509)
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.I serial LM100
s/n LM100
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 100
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM101
s/n LM101
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 101
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM102
s/n LM102
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 102
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM103
s/n LM103
N
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 103
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM104
s/n LM104
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 104
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM105
s/n LM105
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 105
Merlin
Known Units: 626
Delivered to No. 626 Sqn May 1944. It had an accident (unspecified) on 29 Jul 1944. It finally went missing on an operation to Duisburg 21/22 Feb 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM106
s/n LM106
H
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 106
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM107
s/n LM107
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 107
Merlin
Known Units: ;12
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM108
s/n LM108
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 108
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM109
s/n LM109
E
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 109
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM110
s/n LM110
G
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 110
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM111
s/n LM111
G
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 111
Merlin
Known Units: 90 Sqn
Delivered to No. 90 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Mar de Magne, Normandy 7/8 Aug 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM112
s/n LM112
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 112
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM113
s/n LM113
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 113
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn;626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM114
s/n LM114
O
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 114
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM115
s/n LM115
M
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 115
Merlin
Known Units: 57
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn (DX-M) May 1944. Missing on operation to Wesseling 21/22 Jun 1944. 67 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM116
s/n LM116
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 116
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM117
s/n LM117
J
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 117
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM118
s/n LM118
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 118
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM119
s/n LM119
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 119
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM120
s/n LM120
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 120
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM121
s/n LM121
C
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 121
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM122
s/n LM122
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 122
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM123
s/n LM123
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 123
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM124
s/n LM124
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 124
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM125
s/n LM125
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 125
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM126
s/n LM126
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 126
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM127
s/n LM127
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 127
Merlin
Known Units: ;115
Delivered to No. 115 Sqn June 1944. Missing on operation to Kiel 26/27 Aug 1944. 129 Operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM128
s/n LM128
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 128
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM129
s/n LM129
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 129
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM130
s/n LM130
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 130
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM131
s/n LM131
V
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 131
Merlin
Known Units: 103 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM132
s/n LM132
I
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 132
Merlin
Known Units: 103 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM133
s/n LM133
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 133
Merlin
Known Units: ;576
With No.76 Sqn. Aircraft crashed in Sweden on mission to Stettin 16/17 Aug 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM134
s/n LM134
H
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 134
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
Delivered to No. 55 Sqn (BQ-H) May 1944. Missing on operation to Sterkrade, Germany 16/17 Jun 1944. 38 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM135
s/n LM135
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 135
Merlin
Known Units: 166
Delivered to No. 166 Sqn May 1944. Missing on mission to Acheres, France 10/11 Jun 1944. 28 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM136
s/n LM136
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 136
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM137
s/n LM137
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 137
Merlin
Known Units: ;626
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM138
s/n LM138
N
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 138
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM139
s/n LM139
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 139
Merlin
Known Units: ;625
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM140
s/n LM140
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 140
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM141
s/n LM141
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 141
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM142
s/n LM142
A
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 142
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM156
s/n LM156
R
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 156
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM157
s/n LM157
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 157
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM158
s/n LM158
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 158
Merlin
Known Units: ;90
Delivered to No. 90 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Gelsenkirchen 12/13 June 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM159
s/n LM159
H
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 159
Merlin
Known Units: 90 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM160
s/n LM160
W
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 160
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn;626 Sqn;90 Sqn;189 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM161
s/n LM161
F
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 161
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn;101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM162
s/n LM162
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 162
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM163
s/n LM163
J
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 163
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM164
s/n LM164
V
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 164
Merlin
Known Units: 90 Sqn;90 Sqn
Delivered to No. 90 Sqn (WP-V) Jun 1944. Returned from operation to Cleres, France on 28 Jun 1944 with gunner Flight Sergeant WP Smith killed. Missing on operation to Mar de Magne, France, 7/8 Aug 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM165
s/n LM165
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 165
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM166
s/n LM166
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 166
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM167
s/n LM167
R
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 167
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM168
s/n LM168
K
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 168
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM169
s/n LM169
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 169
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM170
s/n LM170
X
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 170
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn;1668 HCU;1668 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM171
s/n LM171
Z
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 171
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn;103 Sqn
May have been with No. 103 Sqn Jun 1944 before moving to No. 44 Sqn (KM-R). Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM172
s/n LM172
Q
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 172
Merlin
Known Units: 300 Sqn
Delivered to No. 300 Sqn (BH-Q) Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Russelsheim 25/26 Aug 1944. 43 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM173
s/n LM173
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 173
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM174
s/n LM174
P
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 174
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
Delivered to No. 625 Sqn (CF-P) Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Kiel 23/24 Jul 1944. 66 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM175
s/n LM175
D
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 175
Merlin
Known Units: 100 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM176
s/n LM176
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 176
Merlin
Known Units: ;166
With 166 Sqn. Crashed at Kirmington on approach to landing on return from operation to Karlsruhe 4 Dec 1944last update: 2025-February-05
1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant William Russell Darling 2024-09-04 1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Cecil Allen Fowler 2024-09-04 1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Stanley Roy Hanna 2024-09-04 1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Douglas Studholme Howard 2024-09-04 1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Charles Wilbert Macklaier 2024-10-07 1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 William Peter Wynnyk 2024-09-04 Lancaster Mk.I serial LM177
s/n LM177
Z
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 177
Merlin
Known Units: 103 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM178
s/n LM178
U
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 178
Merlin
Known Units: 300 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM179
s/n LM179
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 179
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM180
s/n LM180
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 180
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM181
s/n LM181
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 181
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM182
s/n LM182
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 182
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM183
s/n LM183
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 183
Merlin
Known Units: ;90
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM184
s/n LM184
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 184
Merlin
Known Units: ;90
Delivered to No. 90 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Stettin 29/30 Aug 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM185
s/n LM185
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 185
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM186
s/n LM186
D
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 186
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM187
s/n LM187
H
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 187
Merlin
Known Units: 218 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM188
s/n LM188
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 188
Merlin
Known Units: 90 Sqn;90 Sqn;189 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM189
s/n LM189
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 189
Merlin
Known Units: 90
Delivered to No. 90 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Homburg 20/21 Jul 1944last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM190
s/n LM190
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 190
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM191
s/n LM191
O
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 191
Merlin
Known Units: 49;619
Originally with No. 49 Sqn Jun/Jul 1944. Transferred to No. 619 Sqn (PG-O) Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Darmstadt 11/12 Sep 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Elmer Kenneth Carlson 2024-05-17 1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Cyril Bernard Dockrey 2024-10-23 1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Elmer Joseph Alexander MacNair 2024-10-23 1944-September-12 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Joseph Reginald Potts 2024-10-23 Lancaster Mk.I serial LM192
s/n LM192
A
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 192
Merlin
Known Units: BCIS
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM205
s/n LM205
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 205
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM206
s/n LM206
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 206
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM207
s/n LM207
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 207
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM208
s/n LM208
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 208
Merlin
Known Units: ;207
Delivered to No. 207 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing from Gardening sortie 15/16 Oct 1944. 122 flying hourslast update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM209
s/n LM209
H
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 209
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM210
s/n LM210
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 210
Merlin
Known Units: 50
Delivered to No. 50 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 1944. 83 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM211
s/n LM211
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 211
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM212
s/n LM212
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 212
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM213
s/n LM213
G
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 213
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Douglas James Bailey 2024-11-04 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William James Glass 2024-11-27 1945-January-16 PoW RCAF Sergeant Al F Hymers 2024-11-27 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Kerluk 2024-11-27 1945-January-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Donald Erwin Linington 2024-11-27 Lancaster Mk.I serial LM214
s/n LM214
U
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 214
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM215
s/n LM215
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 215
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM216
s/n LM216
K
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 216
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM217
s/n LM217
O
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 217
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM218
s/n LM218
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 218
Merlin
Known Units: 207
Delivered to No 207 Sqn Jun 1944. Missing on operation to St. Leu d'Esserent 7/8 Jul 1944last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM219
s/n LM219
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 219
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM220
s/n LM220
Y
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 220
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM221
s/n LM221
K
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 221
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM222
s/n LM222
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 222
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM223
s/n LM223
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 223
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM224
s/n LM224
B
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 224
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM225
s/n LM225
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 225
Merlin
Known Units: 12
Delivered to No. 12 Sqn Jun 1943. Missing on operation to Kiel 26/27 Aug 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM226
s/n LM226
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 226
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM227
s/n LM227
I
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 227
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM228
s/n LM228
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 228
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM229
s/n LM229
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 229
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM230
s/n LM230
A
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 230
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM231
s/n LM231
T
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 231
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM232
s/n LM232
G
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 232
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM233
s/n LM233
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 233
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM234
s/n LM234
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 234
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM235
s/n LM235
G
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 235
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn;622 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM236
s/n LM236
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 236
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM237
s/n LM237
N
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 237
Merlin
Known Units: 467
Delivered to No. 467 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Konigsburg 29/30 Aug 1944. 148 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Konigsberg Germany 1944-08-30 to 1944-08-30
467 (B) Sqn (RAAF) RAF Waddington, England
467 Australia Squadron. Lancaster aircraft LM 237 went missing during a night trip to Konigsberg, Germany, and was believed to have crashed at sea. RCAF Flying Officer J. Sutcliffe was taken Prisoner of War. Casualties included RCAF Flt. Sgt. P.W. O'Leary; RAF Sgt's. C. Alexander, C. Pearson, E.C. Reid; and RAF Flight Lieutenant D.B. Tattersall.Lancaster Mk.I serial LM238
s/n LM238
T
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 238
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM239
s/n LM239
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 239
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM240
s/n LM240
O
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 240
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn;149 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM241
s/n LM241
Q
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 241
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM242
s/n LM242
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 242
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM243
s/n LM243
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 243
Merlin
Known Units: 103
Delivered to No. 103 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on daylight operation to Agenville, France 31 Aug 1944. 136 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM257
s/n LM257
P
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 257
Merlin
Known Units: 218 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM258
s/n LM258
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 258
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM259
s/n LM259
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 259
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM260
s/n LM260
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 260
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM261
s/n LM261
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 261
Merlin
Known Units: ;207
Delivered to No. 207 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Darmstadt 11/12 Sep 1944. 143 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM262
s/n LM262
G
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 262
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM263
s/n LM263
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 263
Merlin
Known Units: ;207
Delivered to No. 207 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on a daylight raid on Deelen15 Aug 1944. 71 flying hourslast update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM264
s/n LM264
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 264
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM265
s/n LM265
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 265
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM266
s/n LM266
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 266
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM267
s/n LM267
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 267
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM268
s/n LM268
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 268
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM269
s/n LM269
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 269
Merlin
Known Units: ;630
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM270
s/n LM270
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 270
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM271
s/n LM271
L
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 271
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM272
s/n LM272
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 272
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM273
s/n LM273
O
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 273
Merlin
Known Units: 550
Delivered to No. 550 Sqn Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Pforzheim 23/24 Feb 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM274
s/n LM274
F
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 274
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM275
s/n LM275
E
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 275
Merlin
Known Units: 138 Sqn;514 Sqn;514 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM276
s/n LM276
S
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 276
Merlin
Known Units: 75 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM277
s/n LM277
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 277
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM278
s/n LM278
L
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 278
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on Gardening operation 26/27 Aug 1944. 190 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM279
s/n LM279
T
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 279
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM280
s/n LM280
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 280
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM281
s/n LM281
T
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 281
Merlin
Known Units: 218 Sqn;218 Sqn;218 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM282
s/n LM282
C
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 282
Merlin
Known Units: 218 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM283
s/n LM283
O
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 283
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM284
s/n LM284
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 284
Merlin
Known Units: ;207;57
Per 1944 Lincolnshire Aviation Incident Log, aircraft was delivered to 57 Squadron. Crashed after post-delivery air test with only 2 hours flight time. Test crew were from 207 Squadron.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM285
s/n LM285
A
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 285
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM286
s/n LM286
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 286
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM287
s/n LM287
O
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 287
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM288
s/n LM288
C
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 288
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM289
s/n LM289
Y
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 289
Merlin
Known Units: 166 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM290
s/n LM290
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 290
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
Delivered to No. 626 Sqn (UM-W2) Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Bochum 4/5 Nov 1944. 193 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM291
s/n LM291
F
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 291
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM292
s/n LM292
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 292
Merlin
Known Units: ;103
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM293
s/n LM293
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 293
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM294
s/n LM294
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 294
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM295
s/n LM295
Z
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 295
Merlin
Known Units: 103 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I serial LM296
s/n LM296
T
Armstrong Whitworth
LM 296
Merlin
Known Units: 50 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM301
s/n LM301
Q
Avro
LM 301
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM302
s/n LM302
H
Avro
LM 302
Merlin
Known Units: 83 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM303
s/n LM303
Avro
LM 303
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM304
s/n LM304
Avro
LM 304
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM305
s/n LM305
Avro
LM 305
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM306
s/n LM306
F
Avro
LM 306
Merlin
Known Units: 49 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM307
s/n LM307
T
Avro
LM 307
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM308
s/n LM308
G
Avro
LM 308
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU
Originally produced as Mk. I, converted to Mk. III. Was with No. 1661CU, then No. 5 LFS. Caught fire and crashed at Syerston 29 Jan 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
1945-January-29 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Alexander Emerson 2021-08-06
1945-January-29 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon 2021-08-06 1945-January-29 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Hugh Munro Mackenzie 2023-12-13 1945-January-29 KIFA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Richard Barlow Rathbone 2023-12-13 1945-January-29 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Henry Reid 2025-05-23 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM309
s/n LM309
Y
Avro
LM 309
Merlin
Known Units: 1661 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM310
s/n LM310
E
Avro
LM 310
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM311
s/n LM311
Avro
LM 311
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM312
s/n LM312
Avro
LM 312
Merlin
Known Units: ;166
With No. 101 Sqn (SR-U) Apr- Sep 1943. Transferred to No. 166 Sqn. Missing on operation to Leipzig 20/21 Oct 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM313
s/n LM313
D
Avro
LM 313
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM314
s/n LM314
Avro
LM 314
Merlin
Known Units: 157;97;103;550
Successively with Nos. 157, 97 (OF-R) and 103 Sqns. Missing on operation to Kassel 22/23 Oct 1943. 259 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM315
s/n LM315
Avro
LM 315
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Bombing Schweinfurt Germany 1944-02-25 to 1944-02-25
460 () Sqn (RAAF) RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft LM 315 was part of a mission to bomb Schweinfurt, Germany, a centre specialising in the manufacture of ball bearings vital to the German war effort. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed near the target, at Manibach. Killed were RCAF Pilot Officer L.L.N. De Celles (air gunner) and Flying Officer A.R. Mark (bomb aimer); RAF Sgt's. M. Goldman (wireless operator), D.J. Halle (flight engineer), N.H. Lerigo (air gunner); RAF Flt. Sgt's. F. Lloyd (navigator) and R. Yates (pilot).Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM316
s/n LM316
Avro
LM 316
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM317
s/n LM317
U
Avro
LM 317
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
Originally to No. 100 Sqn (HW-D and HW-D2) April or May 1943. Transferred to No. 625 Sqn (CF-U) Oct 1943. Missing on operation to Mailly-le-Camp, France, 3/4 May 1944. Although the operation was a success, many aircraft were lost because of delays in target marking and bad communications. 483 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM318
s/n LM318
Avro
LM 318
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM319
s/n LM319
A
Avro
LM 319
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM320
s/n LM320
C
Avro
LM 320
Merlin
Known Units: 100
Delivered to No. 100 Sqn (HW-C) 8 May 1943. Missing on operation to Dusseldorf 25/26 May 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM321
s/n LM321
Avro
LM 321
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM322
s/n LM322
Avro
LM 322
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM323
s/n LM323
Avro
LM 323
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM324
s/n LM324
Avro
LM 324
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM325
s/n LM325
Avro
LM 325
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM326
s/n LM326
Z
Avro
LM 326
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
Delivered to No. 207 Sqn (EM-Z) 31 May 1943. Missing on operation to Hanover 19 Oct 1943. 267 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM327
s/n LM327
Avro
LM 327
Merlin
Known Units: 97
Delivered to No. 97 Sqn Jun 1943. Missing on operation to Wuppertal 24/25 Jun 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM328
s/n LM328
Avro
LM 328
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM329
s/n LM329
Avro
LM 329
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM330
s/n LM330
Avro
LM 330
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM331
s/n LM331
Avro
LM 331
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM332
s/n LM332
Avro
LM 332
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM333
s/n LM333
V
Avro
LM 333
Merlin
Known Units: 100 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Bombing Berlin Germany 1943-08-23 to 1943-08-23
100 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Grimsby
100 Squadron RAF (Sarang tebaun jangan dijolok) RAF Grimsby. Lancaster BIII aircraft LM 333 HW-V was struck by heavy flak from a Marine Flak Battery crossing the Dutch coastline on the way to attack targets in Berlin, Germany. The port outer engine failed and the order to bail was given before the bomber exploded and crashed near De Franschman between Bergen and Bergen aan Zee, Noord-Holland
Pilot Officer FA Preston (RAAF) and Sergeant H Chadwick (RAFVR) were killed in action
Warrant Officer Class 1 JJ Adelstein (RCAF) and Sergeant J Noble (RAFVR) survived and were taken as Prisoners of War
Sergeant EJ Gargini (RAFVR) and Warrant Officer EA Henry (RAFVR) survived, evaded for a time but were captured and became Prisoners of War
Sergeant R Fidler (RAFVR) survived as an Evader, avoided capture and eventually made his way back to the UK 1944-01-23
1943-August-23 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer John Jacob 'Hank' Adelstein 2024-11-01 1943-August-23 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Harold Chadwick 2024-01-25 1943-August-23 Evader RAFVR Sergeant Royce Fidler 2023-04-20 1943-August-23 PoW RAFVR Sergeant Eric John "Garge" Gargini 2023-04-20 1943-August-23 PoW RAFVR Warrant Officer Albert Edward Henry 2023-04-20 1943-August-23 PoW RAFVR Sergeant James "Jock" Noble 2023-04-20
1943-August-23 KIA RAAF Pilot Officer Francis Albert Preston 2023-04-20 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM334
s/n LM334
V
Avro
LM 334
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM335
s/n LM335
Avro
LM 335
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM336
s/n LM336
G
Avro
LM 336
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
Delivered to No. 57 Sqn (DX-G) Jul 1943. Missing on operation to Mannheim 23/24 Sep 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
1943-September-24 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2 William Henry Arnold 2024-11-03 1943-September-24 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Peter Campbell Gordon 2023-10-11 1943-September-24 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Joe Douglas Hogan 2023-10-11 1943-September-24 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Raymond Norman Millar 2023-10-11 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM337
s/n LM337
Avro
LM 337
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM338
s/n LM338
Avro
LM 338
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM339
s/n LM339
Avro
LM 339
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM340
s/n LM340
H
Avro
LM 340
Merlin
Known Units: 405 Sqn
Operated by No. 405 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*O and "LQ*H". Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM341
s/n LM341
B
Avro
LM 341
Merlin
Known Units: 166 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM342
s/n LM342
Avro
LM 342
Merlin
Known Units: ;467
last update: 2025-June-06
Bombing Peenemunde Germany 1943-08-18 to 1943-08-18
467 (B) Sqn (RAAF) RAF Bottesford, Lincolnshire, England
467 Australia Squadron. Lancaster aircraft LM 342 failed to return from night operations. RCAF Flying Officer R.G. Carter was killed. Casualties also included the following RAF members of the crew: Sqn. Leader A.S. Raphael, Pilot Officer D. Fielden, Flight Lieutenant M.H. Parry, Flight Sergeant F.B. Garrett, Sgt's. A.C. Brand, F. Grey, and V. Smith.Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM343
s/n LM343
Avro
LM 343
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM344
s/n LM344
Avro
LM 344
Merlin
Known Units: ;156
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM345
s/n LM345
L
Avro
LM 345
Merlin
Known Units: ;405
Operated by No. 405 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*L". Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Attacked by Ju 88 on run in to target (Brunswick) on 25 September 1943. Several fires and other damage resulted, load was jettisoned, two engines shut down and aircraft tried to return home at 100 knots. Third engine failed near Gronigen, Holland, and crew bailed out. At least one POW.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Brunswick Germany 1943-09-27 to 1943-09-28
405 () () RAF Gransden Lodge
Operated by No. 405 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded LQ*L". Based at Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire. Attacked by Ju 88 on run in to target (Brunswick) on 25 September 1943. Several fires and other damage resulted, load was jettisoned, two engines shut down and aircraft tried to return home at 100 knots. Third engine failed near Gronigen, Holland, and crew bailed out. At least one POW.
FS WM Gorman (RCAF), S/L(A) LE Logan DFC CG w/Silver Star (RCAF), FS FC Boulter (RCAF), Pilot Officer A Livesey (RAF), FS GL Watts (RAF), FS AJ Holden (RAF) and FS WD Ridgeway (RAF) baled and survived. Pilot Officer Livesey was taken Prisoner of War soon after but most of the crew managed to evade, some for a period of months before being captured by the Gestapo to become Prisoners of War. Flight Sergeant GL Watts however, evaded and avoided capture
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM346
s/n LM346
Q
Avro
LM 346
Merlin
Known Units: 97 Sqn;97 Sqn;35 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM359
s/n LM359
B
Avro
LM 359
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM360
s/n LM360
B
Avro
LM 360
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn;9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM361
s/n LM361
T
Avro
LM 361
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM362
s/n LM362
Avro
LM 362
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn;12 Sqn;12 Sqn;626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM363
s/n LM363
Avro
LM 363
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM364
s/n LM364
Avro
LM 364
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM365
s/n LM365
Avro
LM 365
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM366
s/n LM366
H
Avro
LM 366
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM367
s/n LM367
C
Avro
LM 367
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM368
s/n LM368
S
Avro
LM 368
Merlin
Known Units: 50 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM369
s/n LM369
I
Avro
LM 369
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM370
s/n LM370
Avro
LM 370
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM371
s/n LM371
Avro
LM 371
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM372
s/n LM372
Avro
LM 372
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM373
s/n LM373
Avro
LM 373
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM374
s/n LM374
S
Avro
LM 374
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
Delivered to No. 44 Sqn (KM-S) Oct 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 23/24 Nov 1943. 56 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM375
s/n LM375
Avro
LM 375
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM376
s/n LM376
Avro
LM 376
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM377
s/n LM377
F
Avro
LM 377
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn;9 Sqn
Delivered to No. 106 Sq, then transferred to No. 61 Sqn Nov. 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 1/2 Jan 1944. 104 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM378
s/n LM378
J
Avro
LM 378
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM379
s/n LM379
S
Avro
LM 379
Merlin
Known Units: ;550
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM380
s/n LM380
Avro
LM 380
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM381
s/n LM381
Avro
LM 381
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM382
s/n LM382
Q
Avro
LM 382
Merlin
Known Units: 166 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM383
s/n LM383
Avro
LM 383
Merlin
Known Units: ;207
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM384
s/n LM384
X
Avro
LM 384
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
Delivered to No. 625 Sqn (CFC-X) 11 Nov 1943. Missing on operation to Leipzig 19/20 Feb 1944. 161 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM385
s/n LM385
Avro
LM 385
Merlin
Known Units: ;166
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM386
s/n LM386
M
Avro
LM 386
Merlin
Known Units: 166 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM387
s/n LM387
O
Avro
LM 387
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
Delivered to No. 101 Sqn (SR-O) from No. 32 MU 19 Dec 1943. Equipped with ABC radio jamming equipment. Missing on operation to 21 Jan 1944. 50 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM388
s/n LM388
Avro
LM 388
Merlin
Known Units: ;166
Delivered to No. 166 Sqn (AS-G) 15 Nov 1943. Missing on mission to Revigny 12/13 July 1944. 335 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM389
s/n LM389
Avro
LM 389
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM390
s/n LM390
Avro
LM 390
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM391
s/n LM391
Avro
LM 391
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM392
s/n LM392
J
Avro
LM 392
Merlin
Known Units: 166;550
Delivered to No. 166 Sqn Nov 1943. Transferred to No. 550 Sqn (BQ-J) Feb 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 15/16 Feb 1944. 155 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM393
s/n LM393
Avro
LM 393
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
Delivered to No. 626 Sqn (UM-W2) 26 Nov 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 24/25 Mar 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM394
s/n LM394
Avro
LM 394
Merlin
Known Units: ;50
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM395
s/n LM395
Q
Avro
LM 395
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
1944-May-23 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Charles Marie Beauregard 2024-11-10
1944-May-23 PoW RNZAF Leslie Nicolis Davidson 2024-10-31 1944-May-23 PoW RAF Norman Ellis Gregory 2025-01-05 1944-May-23 KIA RAFVR Sergeant William John Hayman 2025-01-05 1944-May-23 PoW RAF Isaac David Jacobs 2025-01-05 1944-May-23 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Joseph William Johnson 2025-01-05 1944-May-23 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Robert Milligan McLure 2025-01-05 1944-May-23 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Lionel Herbert Milligan 2025-01-05 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM417
s/n LM417
S
Avro
LM 417
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM418
s/n LM418
R
Avro
LM 418
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM419
s/n LM419
N
Avro
LM 419
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM420
s/n LM420
Avro
LM 420
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM421
s/n LM421
Q
Avro
LM 421
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM422
s/n LM422
N
Avro
LM 422
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM423
s/n LM423
H
Avro
LM 423
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM424
s/n LM424
Avro
LM 424
Merlin
Known Units: ;625
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM425
s/n LM425
N
Avro
LM 425
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM426
s/n LM426
Avro
LM 426
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM427
s/n LM427
Avro
LM 427
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM428
s/n LM428
Avro
LM 428
Merlin
Known Units: 50
Delivered to No. 50 Sqn Dec 1943. Missing on operation to Berlin 28/29 Jan 1944. 82 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM429
s/n LM429
T
Avro
LM 429
Merlin
Known Units: 50
Delivered to No. 50 Sqn (VN-T) Dec 1943. Missing on operation to Lille 10/11 May 1944. 270 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM430
s/n LM430
B
Avro
LM 430
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
Delivered to No. 9 Sqn (WS-B) 20 Dec 1943. Missing on raid to Frankfurt 22/23 Mar 1944last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM431
s/n LM431
M
Avro
LM 431
Merlin
Known Units: 467
Delivered to No. 467 (Australian) Sqn 29 Dec 1943. Missing on operation to Stettin 5/6 Jan 1944. 5 operational hours (Robertson) although Mason shows operation to Berlin on 1/2 Jan 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Stettin Germany 1944-01-06 to 1944-01-06
467 (B) Sqn (RAAF) RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, England
467 Australia Squadron. Lancaster aircraft Mk III LM 431 failed to return from a trip to Stettin, Germany, and is deemed lost without trace. Casualties included RCAF F/Sgt. H.S. Reid and W/O II L.M. Jackson; RAAF Pilot Officer F.A. Connolly; RAF F/Sgt's. L.A. Jeffries and H.S. Reid, and RAF Sgt's. R.W.J. Evans, D.A. Briggs, and M. Turner.Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM432
s/n LM432
O
Avro
LM 432
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM433
s/n LM433
H
Avro
LM 433
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM434
s/n LM434
F
Avro
LM 434
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
Delivered to No. 44 Sqn (KM-F) 28 Dec 1943. Missing on operation to Wesseling 21/22 June 1944. 256 Operational hourslast update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM435
s/n LM435
Avro
LM 435
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM436
s/n LM436
Avro
LM 436
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM437
s/n LM437
Avro
LM 437
Merlin
Known Units: ;50
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM438
s/n LM438
Avro
LM 438
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM439
s/n LM439
Avro
LM 439
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM440
s/n LM440
Avro
LM 440
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM441
s/n LM441
T
Avro
LM 441
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM442
s/n LM442
P
Avro
LM 442
Merlin
Known Units: 622
Delivered to No. 622 Sqn (GI-P) Jan 1944. Missing o9n operation to Schweinfurt 24/25 Feb 1944. 52 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM443
s/n LM443
Avro
LM 443
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM444
s/n LM444
Avro
LM 444
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM445
s/n LM445
Z
Avro
LM 445
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM446
s/n LM446
H
Avro
LM 446
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM447
s/n LM447
K
Avro
LM 447
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM448
s/n LM448
M
Avro
LM 448
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster serial LM449
s/n LM449
LM 449
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM450
s/n LM450
Avro
LM 450
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM451
s/n LM451
Avro
LM 451
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM452
s/n LM452
T
Avro
LM 452
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
Delivered to No. 61 Sqn (QR-T) Jan 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 1944. 366 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Stuttgart Germany 1944-07-29 to 1944-07-29
(B) Sqn (RAF) Skellingthorpe
STUTTGART 494 Lancasters and 2 Mosquitoes of 1, 3, 5 and 8 Groups in the last raid of the current series on this target. German fighters intercepted the bomber stream while over France on the outward flight; there was a bright moon and 39 Lancasters were shot down, 7Ã"šÃ‚·9 per cent of the force.source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
1944-July-29 Murdered RCAF Flying Officer Peter Paul Brosko 2024-11-20 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer David Fraser Currie 2024-06-03 1944-July-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Wallace Allan Mackie 2025-03-06 1944-July-29 KIA RAFVR Warrant Officer William Reddington MacPherson 2025-03-06 1944-July-29 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Raymond Gerald McMillan 2025-03-06 1944-July-29 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Gerald Harry Postins 2025-03-06 1944-July-29 KIA RAFVR Sergeant William James Smith 2025-03-06 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM453
s/n LM453
E
Avro
LM 453
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
Delivered to No. 9 Sqn (WS-E) 25 Jan 1944. Missing on daylight operation to Rilly-la-Montagne 31 Jul 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-31 KIA RAFVR Sergeant John Stodart Anderson 2024-11-02 1944-July-31 KIA RAFVR Sergeant John Kerfoot 2023-10-11 1944-July-31 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Francis McKinney 2023-10-11 1944-July-31 KIA RAFVR Sergeant William Edward Moseley 2023-10-11 1944-July-31 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Thomas James Peacore 2023-10-11 1944-July-31 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant William David Phillips 2023-10-11 1944-July-31 KIA RAFVR Flying Officer Charles Edward Michael Worner 2022-05-13 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM454
s/n LM454
Z
Avro
LM 454
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM455
s/n LM455
T
Avro
LM 455
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
Delivered to No. 550 Sqn (BQ-T) Feb 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 1944. 318 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM456
s/n LM456
C
Avro
LM 456
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
Delivered to No. 15 Sqn (LS-C) 4 Feb 1944. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 20/21 Feb 1944. 16 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM457
s/n LM457
Avro
LM 457
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn;101 Sqn;101 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM458
s/n LM458
Avro
LM 458
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM459
s/n LM459
Avro
LM 459
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM460
s/n LM460
R
Avro
LM 460
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM461
s/n LM461
Avro
LM 461
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM462
s/n LM462
Avro
LM 462
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
Delivered to No. 101 Sqn (SR-V2) Feb 1944. Fitted with ABC jamming equipment. Missing on operation to Stuttgart 28/29 July 1944. 248 flying hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM463
s/n LM463
Avro
LM 463
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM464
s/n LM464
E
Avro
LM 464
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM465
s/n LM465
U
Avro
LM 465
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
Delivered to No. 15 Sqn (LS-U) 16 Feb 1944. Missing 12/13 June 1944 on operation to Gelsenkirchen. 169 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM466
s/n LM466
P
Avro
LM 466
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM467
s/n LM467
Avro
LM 467
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM468
s/n LM468
F
Avro
LM 468
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM469
s/n LM469
Avro
LM 469
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM470
s/n LM470
Avro
LM 470
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM471
s/n LM471
Avro
LM 471
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM472
s/n LM472
Avro
LM 472
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM473
s/n LM473
P
Avro
LM 473
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn;15 Sqn;61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM474
s/n LM474
Avro
LM 474
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
Delivered from No. 32 MU to 101 Squadron (SR-N2) 5 Mar 1944. Equipped with ABC. Missing on operation to Sterkrade, 16/17 Jun 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer David Kenneth Adair 2024-11-01 1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Sergeant Willard Vernon Ireland 2021-08-11 1944-June-17 PoW RCAF Flying Officer Duncan Traylen McKillop 2023-07-22 1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Gordon George Welch 2021-07-09 1944-June-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Shaw Winder 2021-07-07 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM475
s/n LM475
Avro
LM 475
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM476
s/n LM476
M
Avro
LM 476
Merlin
Known Units: 619
Delivered to No. 619 Sqn (PG-M) 6 Mar 1944. Missing on operation to Givors, France. 26/27 Jul 1944. 476 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM477
s/n LM477
L
Avro
LM 477
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM478
s/n LM478
Avro
LM 478
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM479
s/n LM479
K
Avro
LM 479
Merlin
Known Units: 101 Sqn;170 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Bombing Stettin Germany 1944-08-29 to 1944-08-30
101 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Ludford Magna
101 Squadron (Men Agitat Molem) RAF Ludford Magna. Lancaster LM 479 SR-F was coded "ABC" for Airborne Cigar. The ABC designation was use to identify aircraft as being specially equipped with three receiving antenna and one transmitter to jam German aircraft radio messages. In order to use the ABC equipment, an eighth crew member, who could speak German, was added to the normal complement of seven. The special equipment operator on Lancaster LM 479 for the operation against targets in Stettin, Germany was 20-year-old Cyril Cousin, the youngest of the crew. The average age of a bomber crew was only 22 years old
Lancaster LM 479 SR-F was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Rudolf Szardenings of 5/NJG3, crashing at Dejbjerg, NW of Skjern, Denmark with the lost of the entire crew
Flying Officer Thomas Foster (RCAF), Flight Sergeant Alfred Reid Chalmers (RCAF), Pilot Officer Hubert Joseph Linn (RCAF), Flying Officer Samuel Albert MacKenzie (RCAF), Pilot Officer Cyril Cousin (RAFVR), Sergeant George Frederick Gibson (RAFVR), Warrant Officer William Owen (RAFVR) and Sergeant Andrew Stewart (RAFVR) were all killed in action
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 4 24 July - 15 October by Theo Boiten, page 64
101 Squadron Lancaster III LM479 SR-F Flying Officer Thomas Foster RAF Ludford...
1944-August-30 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Alfred Reid Chalmers 2025-02-03 1944-August-30 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer Cyril Cousin 2025-02-03 1944-August-30 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Thomas Foster 2025-02-03 1944-August-30 KIA RAFVR Sergeant George Frederick Gibson 2025-02-03 1944-August-30 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Hubert Joseph Linn 2025-02-03 1944-August-30 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Samuel Albert Mackenzie 2025-02-03 1944-August-30 KIA RAFVR Warrant Officer William Owen 2025-02-03 1944-August-30 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Andrew Stewart 2025-02-03 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM480
s/n LM480
Avro
LM 480
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM481
s/n LM481
Avro
LM 481
Merlin
Known Units: ;61
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM482
s/n LM482
L
Avro
LM 482
Merlin
Known Units: 617 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM483
s/n LM483
Y
Avro
LM 483
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM484
s/n LM484
M
Avro
LM 484
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
Delivered to No. 625 Sqn (PG-M) 3 Mar 1944. Missing on operation to Givors, France 26/27 Jul 1944. 476 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Givors France 1944-07-26 to 1944-07-27
619 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Dunholme Lodge
619 Squadron (Ad Altoria), RAF Dunholme Lodge. Lancaster III aircraft LM 484 PG-M was shot down by a night fighter near Maisontiers, France during operations against targets in Givors, France with the loss of the entire crew
Warrant Officer Class 2 TF Galbraith (RCAF), FS JG Pearce (RCAF), Sergeant JH Gilliver (RAFVR), Sergeant E Graham (RAFVR), FS L Rothwell (RAAF), Sergeant RJ Thair (RAFVR) and Flying Officer RG Turvey (RAAF) were all killed in action
1944-July-27 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Thomas Francis Galbraith 2022-11-05 1944-July-27 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Joseph Harry Gilliver 2022-11-05 1944-July-27 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Edward Graham 2022-11-05 1944-July-27 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Jack Gordon Pearce 2022-11-05 1944-July-27 KIA RAAF Sergeant Len Rothwell 2022-11-06 1944-July-27 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Reginald James Thair 2022-11-05 1944-July-27 KIA RAAF Flying Officer Ronald George Turvey 2022-11-06 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM485
s/n LM485
U
Avro
LM 485
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
Originally delivered to No. 15 Sqn (LS-U) then to No. 617 Sqn as KC-N. It was converted from a Mk. III to a Mk. I. It carried a Tallboy bomb on the raid on the Saumur Tunnel 8/9 Jun 1944, and the raid (operation Paravane) on the Tirpitz battleship from a base in the Soviet Union 11/12 Sep 1944, carrying 12 "Johnnie Walker" bombs. As KC-U it carried a Tallboy on the operation against the Tirpitz 12 Nov 1944. It survived the war and was SOC 4 Oct 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Brest France 1944-08-14 to 1944-08-14
617 (B) Sqn (RAF) Woodhall Spa
The aircraft, piloted by Flight Lieutenant HJ Pryor DFC, Left Woodhall Spa on a daylight raid to Brest, France with the objective being to sink the the blockship Gueydon. Shortly after releasing its Tallboy bomb, the bomb aimer, CP Pesme RCAF, was hit in the throat by a piece of shrapnel that then entered his head, killing him instantly. None of the other crew members were injured.
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM486
s/n LM486
Avro
LM 486
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM487
s/n LM487
Avro
LM 487
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM488
s/n LM488
Avro
LM 488
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM489
s/n LM489
U
Avro
LM 489
Merlin
Known Units: 61 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM490
s/n LM490
L
Avro
LM 490
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM491
s/n LM491
Avro
LM 491
Merlin
Known Units: 622
Delivered to No. 622 Sqn (GI-C)13 Mar 1944. Later coded GI-E. Missing on operation to Massy-Palaiseau, France, 7/8 Jun 1944. 153 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM492
s/n LM492
J
Avro
LM 492
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM493
s/n LM493
Avro
LM 493
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
From No. 32 MU to No. 101 Sqn 26 Mar 1944. Equipped with ABC jamming equipment. Missing on operation to Friedrichshafen 28/29 Apr 1944. 50 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM508
s/n LM508
Avro
LM 508
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM509
s/n LM509
M
Avro
LM 509
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM510
s/n LM510
Avro
LM 510
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM511
s/n LM511
C
Avro
LM 511
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM512
s/n LM512
H
Avro
LM 512
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM513
s/n LM513
Avro
LM 513
Merlin
Known Units: ;625
With No. 625 Sqn. Missing from operation to Duisburg 21/22 Jun 1944last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM514
s/n LM514
Q
Avro
LM 514
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM515
s/n LM515
Avro
LM 515
Merlin
Known Units: 625
Delivered to No. 625 Sqn Apr 1944. Missing on operation to Mailly-le-Camp 3/4 May 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM516
s/n LM516
D
Avro
LM 516
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM517
s/n LM517
C
Avro
LM 517
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn; SFEK
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM518
s/n LM518
Avro
LM 518
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM519
s/n LM519
N
Avro
LM 519
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM520
s/n LM520
X
Avro
LM 520
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM521
s/n LM521
F
Avro
LM 521
Merlin
Known Units: 166 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM522
s/n LM522
G
Avro
LM 522
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM523
s/n LM523
Avro
LM 523
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM524
s/n LM524
G
Avro
LM 524
Merlin
Known Units: 635 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM525
s/n LM525
T
Avro
LM 525
Merlin
Known Units: 460
Delivered to No. 460 Sqn 14 Apr 1944. Missing on operation to Dusseldorf 22/23 Apr 1944. 6 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Dusseldorf Germany 1944-04-23 to 1944-04-23
460 (B) Sqn (RAAF) RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster aircraft LM 525 was delivered to 460 Squadron 14 April 1944. Aircraft was on a night operation mission to Düsseldorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen, when it was shot down by a night fighter pilot. RAAF Flt. Sgt. R. Allen (pilot) was killed. Taken Prisoners of War were: RCAF Sgt. J.S. Stewart (air gunner); RAFVR Sgt's. J.G.H. Bond (air gunner), D. Lord (flight engineer), and S. Swinton (wireless operator / air gunner); RNZAF Flt. Sgt. K.P. Collett (bomb aimer); and RAAF Flying Officer W.M.F. Orr (navigator).Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM526
s/n LM526
Avro
LM 526
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM527
s/n LM527
Avro
LM 527
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM528
s/n LM528
D
Avro
LM 528
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM529
s/n LM529
I
Avro
LM 529
Merlin
Known Units: ;166
last update: 2025-June-06
Bombing Karlsruhe Germany 1944-04-24 to 1944-04-25
166 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Kirmington
166 Squadron (Tenacity), RAF Kirmington. Lancaster BIII aircraft LM 529 AS-I was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Friedrich Thorl of Stab 1/NjG4. The Lancaster exploded and crashed near Wallers-Trelon (Nord) 20 km South-East of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, France during an operation against targets in Karlsruhe, Germany
The entire crew were lost
Warrant Officer John Duncan Fiddes (RCAF), Flight Sergeant Joseph Walter Edgar (RCAF), Sergeant Benjamin Cohen (RAFVR), Sergeant Harry Harbon (RAFVR), Sergeant Leonard Kirkham (RAFVR), Pilot Officer David Reid Tait (RAFVR) and Sergeant John Templeton (RAFVR) were all killed in action
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 2 16 March - 11 May by Theo Boiten, page 87
Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database
1944-April-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Benjamin Cohen 2024-03-13 1944-April-25 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Joseph Walter Edgar 2025-01-13 1944-April-25 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer John Duncan Fiddes 2025-01-15 1944-April-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Harry Harbron 2025-01-15 1944-April-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Leonard Kirkham 2025-01-15 1944-April-25 KIA RAFVR Pilot Officer David Reid Tait 2025-01-15 1944-April-25 KIA RAFVR Sergeant John Templeton 2025-01-15 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM530
s/n LM530
Avro
LM 530
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM531
s/n LM531
Avro
LM 531
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM532
s/n LM532
Avro
LM 532
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
Delivered to No. 576 Sqn (UL-A2) Apr 1944. Missing on operation to Orleans 4/5 Jul 1944. 189 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-05 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Douglas Frank Jakes Baxter 2025-01-01 1944-July-05 KIA RCAF Sergeant Earl Wesley Bookhout 2025-01-29 1944-July-05 KIA RCAF Sergeant Ralph Frithjaf Hillman 2025-01-01 1944-July-05 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Edward Jerome McCloskey 2025-01-01 1944-July-05 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Shoobridge 2025-01-01 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM533
s/n LM533
Avro
LM 533
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM534
s/n LM534
A
Avro
LM 534
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
To No. 115 Sqn May 1944. Transferred to No. 15 Sqn (LS-A). Missing on operation to Massy-Palaiseau 7/8 Jun 1944last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM535
s/n LM535
Avro
LM 535
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM536
s/n LM536
Avro
LM 536
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM537
s/n LM537
X
Avro
LM 537
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
Delivered to No. 630 Sqn (LE-X) 25 Apr 1944. Missing on operation to Revigny, France 18 Jul 1944. 175 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM538
s/n LM538
Avro
LM 538
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM539
s/n LM539
Avro
LM 539
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM540
s/n LM540
Avro
LM 540
Merlin
Known Units: 207
Delivered to No. 207 Sqn 28 Apr 1944. Missing on operation to Brunswick 22/23 May 1944. 26 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM541
s/n LM541
Avro
LM 541
Merlin
Known Units: 49
Delivered to No. 49 Sqn 1 May 1944. Missing on operation to St. Leu d'Esserent, France 7/8 Jul 1944. 122 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM542
s/n LM542
S
Avro
LM 542
Merlin
Known Units: ;100
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM543
s/n LM543
Avro
LM 543
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM544
s/n LM544
A
Avro
LM 544
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM545
s/n LM545
Avro
LM 545
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM546
s/n LM546
O
Avro
LM 546
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM547
s/n LM547
Avro
LM 547
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM548
s/n LM548
C
Avro
LM 548
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM549
s/n LM549
Avro
LM 549
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM550
s/n LM550
C
Avro
LM 550
Merlin
Known Units: 153 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM551
s/n LM551
Avro
LM 551
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM552
s/n LM552
Avro
LM 552
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM569
s/n LM569
Avro
LM 569
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM570
s/n LM570
Avro
LM 570
Merlin
Known Units: 106
Delivered to No. 106 Sqn 13 May 1944. Missing on operation to Gelsenkirchen 21/22 Jun 1944. 90 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM571
s/n LM571
Avro
LM 571
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM572
s/n LM572
P
Avro
LM 572
Merlin
Known Units: 49
Delivered to No. 49 Sqn May 1944. Missing on operation to Pommerval 24/25 Jun 1944. 93 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM573
s/n LM573
U
Avro
LM 573
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM574
s/n LM574
J
Avro
LM 574
Merlin
Known Units: 463 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM575
s/n LM575
H
Avro
LM 575
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
Delivered to No. 90 Sqn 15 May 1944. Transferred to No. 15 Sqn (LS-H) 5-Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Massy-Palaiseau, France 7/8 Jun 1944. 10 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM576
s/n LM576
D
Avro
LM 576
Merlin
Known Units: 15 Sqn
Delivered to No. 90 Sqn 15 May 1944. Transferred to No. 15 Sqn Jun 1944. Crashed and burnt while on a flying test near Mildenhall 21 Jun 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM577
s/n LM577
Q
Avro
LM 577
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn;218 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM578
s/n LM578
Avro
LM 578
Merlin
Known Units: ;207
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM579
s/n LM579
Avro
LM 579
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM580
s/n LM580
Avro
LM 580
Merlin
Known Units: ;57
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM581
s/n LM581
Avro
LM 581
Merlin
Known Units: ;166
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM582
s/n LM582
B
Avro
LM 582
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM583
s/n LM583
Avro
LM 583
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM584
s/n LM584
Avro
LM 584
Merlin
Known Units: 100 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM585
s/n LM585
Avro
LM 585
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM586
s/n LM586
Avro
LM 586
Merlin
Known Units: ;166
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM587
s/n LM587
L
Avro
LM 587
Merlin
Known Units: 463 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM588
s/n LM588
Avro
LM 588
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM589
s/n LM589
Avro
LM 589
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM590
s/n LM590
Avro
LM 590
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM591
s/n LM591
Q
Avro
LM 591
Merlin
Known Units: BCIS
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM592
s/n LM592
Q
Avro
LM 592
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM593
s/n LM593
Avro
LM 593
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM594
s/n LM594
A
Avro
LM 594
Merlin
Known Units: 576 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM595
s/n LM595
O
Avro
LM 595
Merlin
Known Units: 622 Sqn
Delivered to No. 622 Sqn (GI-O) 10 Jun 1944. Missing on operation to Homburg 20/21 Jul 1944. 73 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM596
s/n LM596
Avro
LM 596
Merlin
Known Units: ;626
Was with No. 101 Sqn, then transferred to No. 626 Sqn. Missing on operation to Duisburg 14/15 Oct 1944. 163 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-October-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer James Commodore Campbell 2023-12-13 1944-October-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Roland Marcel Joseph Champagne 2024-01-28 1944-October-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Albert Charland 2024-02-04 1944-October-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Ross Cuthbert Clouston 2024-03-05 1944-October-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Frederick Palmer 2022-01-19 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM597
s/n LM597
Avro
LM 597
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM598
s/n LM598
Avro
LM 598
Merlin
Known Units: 101
Delivered to No. 101 Sqn (SR-M2) May 1944. Equipped with ABC radio jamming equipment. Missing on operation to Brunswick 12/13 Aug 1944. 119 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM599
s/n LM599
Avro
LM 599
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM615
s/n LM615
B
Avro
LM 615
Merlin
Known Units: 1653 HCU;90 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM616
s/n LM616
Avro
LM 616
Merlin
Known Units: ;115
With No. 115 Sqn. Crashed while descending through cloud, Great Offley, Herts, 18 Jul 1944last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM617
s/n LM617
X
Avro
LM 617
Merlin
Known Units: 90 Sqn;90 Sqn;189 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM618
s/n LM618
U
Avro
LM 618
Merlin
Known Units: 189 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM619
s/n LM619
Avro
LM 619
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM620
s/n LM620
Avro
LM 620
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM621
s/n LM621
C
Avro
LM 621
Merlin
Known Units: 100
Delivered to No. 100 Sqn 14 Jun 1944. Lost on operation to Vierzon, France 30 Jun/1 Jul 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Vierzon France 1944-06-30 to 1944-07-01
100 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Grimsby
100 Squadron RAF (Sarang tebuan jangan dijolok) RAF Grimsby. Lancaster III aircraft LM 621 HW-C was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Hptm Fritz Sothe of 4/NJG4 during an operation to bomb the rail yards at Vieron, France. The bomber crashed at Vouzon, Loir-et-Cher, France, some 29 miles north of the target
Mid-Upper Air Gunner, Sergeant John Eason Sharpley (RAFVR) was killed in action
Flight Sergeant Frederick Harold Fulsher (RCAF), Flying Officer William Kay (RAFVR) and Sergeant Harry Dale (RAFVR) were captured to become Prisoners of War. Fulsher and Kay were sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp and held for a time before the German Luftwaffe transferred them to Stalag Luft 3
Sergeant William Edward Struck (RCAF) and Flying Officer James Douglas Frink DFC (USAAF) and Sergeant Ernest Harrop (RAFVR) all evaded capture with the help of French locals and Resistance fighters
Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database
30 06/01 07 1944 100 Squadron Lancaster III LM621 Plt Off William...
The Last Flight - International Bomber Command Centre 1944-July-01 PoW RAFVR Sergeant Harry Dale 2024-08-30 1944-July-01 Evader USAAF Flying Officer James Douglas Frink DFC 2024-08-25 1944-July-01 PoW RCAF Flight Sergeant Frederick Harold Fulsher 2024-10-24 1944-July-01 Evader RAFVR Sergeant Ernest Harrop 2024-08-25 1944-July-01 PoW RAFVR Flying Officer William Kay 2024-08-25 1944-July-01 KIA RAFVR Flight Sergeant John Eason Sharpley 2024-08-27 1944-July-01 Evader RCAF Sergeant William Edward Struck 2024-08-27 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM622
s/n LM622
Avro
LM 622
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM623
s/n LM623
Avro
LM 623
Merlin
Known Units: 460 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM624
s/n LM624
A
Avro
LM 624
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM625
s/n LM625
Avro
LM 625
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM626
s/n LM626
M
Avro
LM 626
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM627
s/n LM627
E
Avro
LM 627
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn;1668 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM628
s/n LM628
Avro
LM 628
Merlin
Known Units: ;50
Delivered to No. 50 Sqn 26 Jun 1944. Missing on mission to Gravenhorst, 6/7 Nov 1944. 352 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Michael Arthur Cook 2024-04-02 1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Flt. Sergeant Ralph Andrew Dowling 2024-10-28 1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer George Amos Dunkelman 2024-10-29 1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Frederick Arthur Horning 2021-08-10 1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Edward Rennie 2021-08-10 1944-November-06 KIA RCAF Flying Officer George Thompson Gilbert Terris 2021-07-20 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM629
s/n LM629
O
Avro
LM 629
Merlin
Known Units: 50 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM630
s/n LM630
D
Avro
LM 630
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM631
s/n LM631
W
Avro
LM 631
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM632
s/n LM632
O
Avro
LM 632
Merlin
Known Units: 300 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM633
s/n LM633
Avro
LM 633
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM634
s/n LM634
Avro
LM 634
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM635
s/n LM635
Avro
LM 635
Merlin
Known Units: 626 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM636
s/n LM636
Avro
LM 636
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM637
s/n LM637
V
Avro
LM 637
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM638
s/n LM638
P
Avro
LM 638
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Bombing Culmont Chalindrey France 1944-07-12 to 1944-07-13
44 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Dunholme Lodge
378 Lancasters and 7 Mosquitoes of 1, 5 and 8 Groups attacked railway targets at Culmont, Revigny and Tours. Culmont and Tours were accurately bombed but cloud interfered with the all- 1 Group raid at Revigny and only half of the force· bombed. I0 Lancasters were lost on the Revigny raid and 2 on the Culmont raid.
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Lancaster III aircraft LM 638 KM-P returning from an operation to bomb the railway junction at Culmont-Chalindrey, France, was involved in a mid-air collision with 576 Squadron RAF Lancaster ND 859 UL-L2, which was circling in cloud trying to find another railyard at Revigny-sur-Ornain, France. Both aircraft were on missions in support of the D-Day landings, an attempt stop German troop and equipment movement on the French rail system
Lancaster LM 638 crashed near Auberive, Haute-Marne and ND 859 crashed at Giey-sur-Aujon, Haute-Marne, France
WO HL Brooks MC (RCAF) Sergeant RG Royle (RAF) survived and were taken as Prisoners of War.Warrant Officer Brooks would later escape from a POW work party 1943-05-10 and join the Polish underground for the duration of the war
Sergeant KW Green (RAF) survived and initially Evaded until captured at the Swiss border 1944-08-17 and taken Prisoner of War
Flying Officer RS Arnold (RCAF), Sergeant J Bray (RCAF),Sergeant WA Lamb (RCAF) and Sergeant L Wharton (RAF) survived and Evaded capture. Arnold, Lamb and Wharton all joined the Resistance movement until liberated by Allied Forces
[Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database]...
Search for France-Crashes 39-45
Memoirs 52: July 13 1944: two Lancasters crashed in the south-...
1944-July-13 Evader RCAF Flying Officer Ralph Sherman Arnold 2022-11-19 1944-July-13 Evader RCAF Sergeant James Bray 2022-11-19 1944-July-13 Escaper RCAF Warrant Officer Herbert Lloyd Brooks MC 2022-11-19 1944-July-13 PoW RAF Sergeant Kenneth William Green 2025-03-02 1944-July-13 Evader RCAF Sergeant William Arthur Lamb 2022-11-21 1944-July-13 PoW RAF Sergeant Ronald Gordon Royle 2025-03-02 1944-July-13 Evader RAF Sergeant Leslie Wharton 2022-11-19 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM639
s/n LM639
Avro
LM 639
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM640
s/n LM640
Avro
LM 640
Merlin
Known Units: ;619
Delivered to No. 619 Sqn Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Revigny 18/19 Jul 1944. 26 Operational hourslast update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-19 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Aubrey Ginders Britten 2024-11-18 1944-July-19 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Albert Garbutt 2025-03-03 1944-July-19 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Joseph Frederick Mara 2025-03-03 1944-July-19 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Ewart Laverne Morrison 2025-03-03 1944-July-19 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Harry James Wilson 2025-03-03 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM641
s/n LM641
D
Avro
LM 641
Merlin
Known Units: ;106
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM642
s/n LM642
Avro
LM 642
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM643
s/n LM643
E
Avro
LM 643
Merlin
Known Units: 619
Delivered to No. 619 Sqn (PG-E) 11 Jul 1944. Missing on operation to Donges, France 24/25 Jul 1944. 29 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing 1944-07-25 to 1944-07-25
(B) Sqn (RAF) Dunholme Lodge
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s/n LM644
Avro
LM 644
Merlin
Known Units: 100 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM645
s/n LM645
P
Avro
LM 645
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM646
s/n LM646
S
Avro
LM 646
Merlin
Known Units: 35 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM647
s/n LM647
S
Avro
LM 647
Merlin
Known Units: 550 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM648
s/n LM648
Avro
LM 648
Merlin
Known Units: ;44
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM649
s/n LM649
Avro
LM 649
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM650
s/n LM650
Avro
LM 650
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM651
s/n LM651
Avro
LM 651
Merlin
Known Units: 576
Delivered to No. 576 Sqn (UL-Z2) Jul 1944. On Sep 24 1944, the aircraft was hit by flak and one of the gunners, FS JD McGowan was mortally wounded and died 5 days later. The aircraft survived the war with No. 576 Sqn and was eventually SOC 15 May 1947.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM652
s/n LM652
Avro
LM 652
Merlin
Known Units: 166
Delivered to No. 166 Sqn 28 Jul 1944. Missing from Gardening sortie 27 Aug 1944. 89 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM653
s/n LM653
Avro
LM 653
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM654
s/n LM654
L
Avro
LM 654
Merlin
Known Units: 44 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM655
s/n LM655
U
Avro
LM 655
Merlin
Known Units: 75 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM656
s/n LM656
M
Avro
LM 656
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM657
s/n LM657
R
Avro
LM 657
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn;619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM658
s/n LM658
Avro
LM 658
Merlin
Known Units: ;100
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM671
s/n LM671
S
Avro
LM 671
Merlin
Known Units: 207 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM672
s/n LM672
Avro
LM 672
Merlin
Known Units: 100 Sqn;100 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM673
s/n LM673
U
Avro
LM 673
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM674
s/n LM674
Avro
LM 674
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM675
s/n LM675
Avro
LM 675
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM676
s/n LM676
W
Avro
LM 676
Merlin
Known Units: 50 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM677
s/n LM677
Avro
LM 677
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM678
s/n LM678
O
Avro
LM 678
Merlin
Known Units: 57 Sqn;227 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM679
s/n LM679
Avro
LM 679
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM680
s/n LM680
Z
Avro
LM 680
Merlin
Known Units: 630 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM681
s/n LM681
Avro
LM 681
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM682
s/n LM682
Avro
LM 682
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM683
s/n LM683
Avro
LM 683
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM684
s/n LM684
Avro
LM 684
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM685
s/n LM685
Avro
LM 685
Merlin
Known Units: 514
Delivered to No. 514 Sqn Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Dortmund 3/4 Feb 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
1945-February-03 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Alan Quilliam Downward 2024-10-28 1945-February-03 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Warren James Keating Fisher 2021-08-06 1945-February-03 KIA RCAF Sergeant Albert Richard McWhinney 2021-08-17 1945-February-03 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Alfred Hector Morrison 2021-08-16 1945-February-03 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Donald Edward Stephens 2021-10-02 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM686
s/n LM686
K
Avro
LM 686
Merlin
Known Units: 35 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM687
s/n LM687
Avro
LM 687
Merlin
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM688
s/n LM688
Avro
LM 688
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM689
s/n LM689
Avro
LM 689
Merlin
Known Units: ;626
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM690
s/n LM690
P
Avro
LM 690
Merlin
Known Units: 106 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM691
s/n LM691
O
Avro
LM 691
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM692
s/n LM692
R
Avro
LM 692
Merlin
Known Units: 1659 HCU;189 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM693
s/n LM693
T
Avro
LM 693
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn
Delivered to No. 115 Sqn (KO-T) 14 Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Moerdijk, 16/17 Sep 1944. 62 operational hours.last update: 2025-February-05
1944-September-17 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Peter William Bickford 2024-10-05 1944-September-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Douglas Dawson 2024-10-05 1944-September-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Donald George Flood 2024-10-05 1944-September-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Arnold Ney Johnston 2024-10-05 1944-September-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Wilfred George Scanlan 2024-10-05 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM694
s/n LM694
Avro
LM 694
Merlin
Known Units: 166 Sqn
Delivered to No. 166 Sqn (AS-M2) 22 Aug 1943. Missing on Gardening operation to the Baltic 26/27 Aug 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM695
s/n LM695
Avro
LM 695
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM696
s/n LM696
U
Avro
LM 696
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn;115 Sqn;115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM697
s/n LM697
A
Avro
LM 697
Merlin
Known Units: 149 Sqn;189 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM713
s/n LM713
Avro
LM 713
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM714
s/n LM714
L
Avro
LM 714
Merlin
Known Units: 12 Sqn
Delivered to No. 12 Sqn (PH-L) 28 Aug 1944. Missing on operation to Merseburg 14/15 Jan 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM715
s/n LM715
O
Avro
LM 715
Merlin
Known Units: 9 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM716
s/n LM716
Avro
LM 716
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM717
s/n LM717
Avro
LM 717
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM718
s/n LM718
Avro
LM 718
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM719
s/n LM719
B
Avro
LM 719
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn
First at No. 514 Sqn, then to 1653 Conversion Unit. Crashed in a snowstorm 28 April 1945last update: 2025-February-05
1945-April-28 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Verle Edmond Cline 2024-03-05 1945-April-28 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Norman William Guy 2021-08-09 1945-April-28 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Richard Knut Ourom 2021-08-18 1945-April-28 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer John Donald Travis 2021-07-15 1945-April-28 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant James Roy Williams 2021-07-08 1945-April-28 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Roger Wilson 2021-07-07 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM720
s/n LM720
Avro
LM 720
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM721
s/n LM721
O
Avro
LM 721
Merlin
Known Units: 150 Sqn;149 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM722
s/n LM722
Avro
LM 722
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM723
s/n LM723
Avro
LM 723
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM724
s/n LM724
H
Avro
LM 724
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn;514 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM725
s/n LM725
X
Avro
LM 725
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM726
s/n LM726
Avro
LM 726
Merlin
Known Units: ;626
Delivered to No. 626 Sqn 9 Sep 1944. Missing on operation to Dortmund 20/21 Feb 1945.last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM727
s/n LM727
H
Avro
LM 727
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM728
s/n LM728
R
Avro
LM 728
Merlin
Known Units: 75 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM729
s/n LM729
V
Avro
LM 729
Merlin
Known Units: ;61
Delivered to No. 61 Sqn 12 Sep 1944. Missing on operation to Munich 17/18 Dec 1944. [Robertson gives last op on 19th Dec to Gdynia, but this is not borne out by reference to the rafcommands website]last update: 2025-February-07
Bombing Munich Germany 1944-12-17 to 1944-12-17
61 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Skellingthorpe
61 Squadron RAF (Per Puram Tunantes), RAF Skellingthorpe. Lancaster III aircraft LM 729 QR-V was shot down by flak thirty five-miles south-east of the targets in Munich, Germany near Degendorf, Germany with only the rear air-gunner surviving the aircraft loss
Flying Officer Percy Barlow (RCAF), Flying Officer Edward Roy Newland (RCAF), Warrant Officer Hilton Alfred Hales (RAAF), Sergeant Ronald William Bennett (RAFVR), Sergeant David Thomson Muir (RAFVR) and Sergeant Herbert Alfred Tuck (RAFVR) were all killed in action
Although claimed as shot down by flak, Rear Gunner Chester Samuel Joce (RAFVR) later reported that a photo-flash bomb, used by aircrew to illuminate the target area in order to photograph bomb damage exploded inside the fuselage after the bomb load was released, killing most of the crew. The tail plane and rear turret separated from the fuselage and Joce survived to fall free and became a Prisoner of War
1944-December-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Percy Barlow 2025-02-06 1944-December-17 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Ronald William Bennett 2025-02-05 1944-December-17 KIA RAAF Warrant Officer Hilton Alfred Hales 2025-02-06 1944-December-17 PoW RAFVR Sergeant Chester Samuel Joce 2025-04-17 1944-December-17 KIA RAFVR Sergeant David Thomson Muir 2025-02-06 1944-December-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Edward Roy Newland 2025-02-05 1944-December-17 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Herbert Alfred Tuck 2025-02-06 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM730
s/n LM730
Avro
LM 730
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM731
s/n LM731
Avro
LM 731
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM732
s/n LM732
B
Avro
LM 732
Merlin
Known Units: 170 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM733
s/n LM733
R
Avro
LM 733
Merlin
Known Units: 75 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM734
s/n LM734
J
Avro
LM 734
Merlin
Known Units: 115 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM735
s/n LM735
Avro
LM 735
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM736
s/n LM736
J
Avro
LM 736
Merlin
Known Units: 1654 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM737
s/n LM737
A
Avro
LM 737
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM738
s/n LM738
Avro
LM 738
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM739
s/n LM739
Avro
LM 739
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM740
s/n LM740
B
Avro
LM 740
Merlin
Known Units: 75 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM741
s/n LM741
Avro
LM 741
Merlin
Known Units: 100 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM742
s/n LM742
Avro
LM 742
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM743
s/n LM743
R
Avro
LM 743
Merlin
Known Units: 195 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM744
s/n LM744
Avro
LM 744
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM745
s/n LM745
Avro
LM 745
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM746
s/n LM746
Avro
LM 746
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM747
s/n LM747
Avro
LM 747
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM748
s/n LM748
Avro
LM 748
Merlin
Known Units:
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM749
s/n LM749
Avro
LM 749
Merlin
Known Units: 625 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM750
s/n LM750
Avro
LM 750
Merlin
Known Units: ;153
Delivered to No. 166 Sqn Sep 1944. Transferred to No. 153 Sqn (PA-G) Oct 1944. Missing from Gardening sortie 3/4 Mar 1945last update: 2025-February-05
1945-March-03 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Leo Joseph Robert Gregoire DFC 2021-11-07 1945-March-03 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Kenneth Lloyd Douglas McCoy 2021-08-17 1945-March-03 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Ernest Sabine 2021-08-04 1945-March-03 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Marvin Max Sandomirsky 2021-08-04 1945-March-03 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Waldemar Webber 2021-07-10 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM751
s/n LM751
X
Avro
LM 751
Merlin
Known Units: ;619
Delivered to No. 619 Sqn (PG-X) Sep 1944. Missing on operation to Heilbronn 4/5 Dec 1944.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Heilbronn Germany 1944-12-04 to 1944-12-04
(B) Sqn (RAF) Strubby
Took off from Strubby at 16:42 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code: PG-X Bomber Command) on an operation to Heilbronn Germany
Shot down by a night fighter itand crashed at Baiersbronn about 7km NW of Freudenstadt.
Killed: Flying Officer Robert Harry Schaefer RCAF J/35883 pilot KIA Durnbach War Cemetery grave 4.H.33. Flying Officer Phillip Peter Awad RCAF J/39979 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery grave 4.H.34-35. Sergeant John Lonsdale Swanson RAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery grave 4.H.31. Flying Officer Frederick Leonard Meredith RCAF J/38814 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery crave 4.H.34-35, Sergeant Leslie George Weir RAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery grave 4.H.23.
Unknown: Sergeant J Ross Keilty RCAF R/number POW camp not listed. Sergeant John E Nicholaiff RCAF R/number injured in crash POW camp not listed.
. 1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Philip Peter Awad 2024-11-04 1944-December-04 PoW RCAF Sergeant J Ross Keilty 2024-10-07 1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Frederick Leonard Meredith 2024-10-07 1944-December-04 PoW RCAF Sergeant J E Nicholaiff 2024-10-07 1944-December-04 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Harry Schaefer 2024-10-07 1944-December-04 KIA RAFVR Sergeant John Lonsdale Swanson 2024-10-07 1944-December-04 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Leslie George Weir 2024-10-07 Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM752
s/n LM752
F
Avro
LM 752
Merlin
Known Units: 514 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM753
s/n LM753
B
Avro
LM 753
Merlin
Known Units: 1659 HCU
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM754
s/n LM754
E
Avro
LM 754
Merlin
Known Units: 153 Sqn
last update: 2025-June-06
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM755
s/n LM755
N
Avro
LM 755
Merlin
Known Units: ;101
Delivered to No. 101 Sqn (SR-N) Oct 1944. Missing from daylight operation to Dortmund 29-Nov 1944 (Mason). (Robertson gives date as 29 Oct, presumably a typo).last update: 2025-February-05
Lancaster Mk.I/III serial LM756
s/n LM756
F
Avro
LM 756
Merlin
Known Units: 619 Sqn
Delivered to No. 227 Squadron Oct 1944, then to No. 619 Sqn (PG-F) Oct/Nov 1944. Missing on daylight operation to Berchtesgaten 25 Apr 1945. This is possibly the last Lancaster lost to enemy action in WWIIlast update: 2025-February-05