Squadron: (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1945-03-07
Completion Date: 1945-03-07
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Dessau Germany
Target Specific:
Base: Skipton-on-Swale
Take Off Time: 16.46
Squadron Code: QB C
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Dabringhausen
Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason:
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Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
526 Lancasters and 5 Mosquitoes of I, 3, 6 and 8 Groups. 18 Lancasters lost, 3·4 per cent of the force.
This was another devastating raid on a new target in Eastern Germany with the usual town centre, residential, industrial and railway areas all being hit. Few further details are available.
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Lancaster aircraft NG 457 missing during a night operation against Dessau, Germany. F/Os D.A.Standfield, T.L. Foley, D.W. Robinson, T.S. Lawrence, Sergeant J. Klem, and FS S. Rosu were killed. One Canadian, Sergeant Seaman, was either an Evader or was taken Prisoner of War.
