Lancaster KB797 Mk.X - Bombing Dessau Germany - 1945-03-07 to 1945-03-07
Squadron: 419 (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1945-03-07
Completion Date: 1945-03-07
Mission: Bombing
Operation: Thunderclap
Target City: Dessau Germany
Target Specific:
Base: Middleton St. George
Take Off Time: 16.57
Squadron Code: VR K
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Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
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War Diary 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

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source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt

419 Moose Squadron (Moosa Aswayita). Lancaster aircraft KB 797 went missing during a night trip to Dessau, Germany, presumed over target, presumed enemy action. F/Os W.E.Short ,B.T. MacNeill, P/Os E.V. Beach, R.L. Mitchell, and R.T. Wilson were killed. One Canadian, FS H. Cole, was taken Prisoner of War, and one Canadian, FS D. Jamieson, was an Evader.

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