Lancaster ME622 Mk.I - Bombing Stuttgart Germany - 1944-03-15 to 1944-03-15
Squadron: 405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1944-03-15
Completion Date: 1944-03-15
Mission: Bombing
Operation: Battle of Berlin
Target City: Stuttgart Germany
Target Specific:
Base: Gransden Lodge
Take Off Time: 19.31
Squadron Code: LQ-H
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Germany
Crash Specifics: near Kayh, Herrenberg, Baden-Wurttemberg
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim: Multiple: Unteroffizier Heinz Amsberg of the 7/NJG 1 and Leutnant Willi Trabert of the 9/NJG 300
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405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus), Pathfinder Force, RAF Gransden Lodge. Lancaster I aircraft ME 622 LQ-H was shot down by two night fighters one mile south of Kayh, near Monchberg, Germany during operations against targets in Stuttgart. The Lancaster crashed near Kayh, Herrenberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Flying Officer KA Cole (RCAF), Pilot Officer JH Dempsey (RAFVR), Flight Lieutenant AB Fyfe (RCAF), Pilot Officer BE Galbraith (RCAF) were all killed in action

Flying Officer WS Edwards (RCAF), Flight Lieutenant DB Quayle (RCAF) and Warrant Officer Class 2 HB Searles (RCAF) survived and all were taken as Prisoners of War

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