Squadron: 460
Start Date: 1943-07-25
Completion Date: 1943-07-25
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Hamburg Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Binbrook, England
Take Off Time: 23:08
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Return Time:
Crash City: Niedersachsen, Germany
Crash Specifics: near Duhnen, Cuxhaven
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim: Shot down by night fighter pilot Unteroffizier Willi Berg of the 7./NJG 3 (based at Kastrup airfield, Denmark), flying a Bf 110 G-4. Also claimed by Marine Flak, victory Uffz. Berg subsequently confirmed.
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster W4987 took off from RAF Binbrook at 2308 hours on the night of 24/25th July 1943 to attack Hamburg, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. Twenty six aircraft from the squadron took part in the attack. Casualties included RCAF Flt. Sgt. A.J.E. Perron (air gunner); RAAF Flt. Sgt's. A.G. Ashley (pilot), F.S. Forsyth (air gunner), and F.C. Taylor (navigator); RAF Sgt's. J.M. Acheson (bomb aimer), J.V. Joyce (wireless operator), and D.W. Metcalfe (flight engineer).
6 Group Unavailable
460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster W4987 took off from RAF Binbrook at 2308 hours on the night of 24/25th July 1943 to attack Hamburg, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. Twenty six aircraft from the squadron took part in the attack. Casualties included RCAF Flt. Sgt. A.J.E. Perron (air gunner); RAAF Flt. Sgt's. A.G. Ashley (pilot), F.S. Forsyth (air gunner), and F.C. Taylor (navigator); RAF Sgt's. J.M. Acheson (bomb aimer), J.V. Joyce (wireless operator), and D.W. Metcalfe (flight engineer).
