Lancaster PB525 Mk.I/III - Bombing Scholven Germany - 1944-12-29 to 1944-12-29
Squadron: 405 (PFF) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1944-12-29
Completion Date: 1944-12-29
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Scholven Germany
Target Specific: synthetic-oil facilities
Base: RAF Gransden Lodge
Take Off Time: 15:53:00
Squadron Code: LQ-P
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: unknown
Crash Specifics: unspecified
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason:
Flak Battery: unspecified
Enemy Claim: unspecified
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable

405 Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus) Pathfinder Force, RAF Gransden Lodge. Lancaster III aircraft PB 525 LQ-P was lost without a trace performing Pathfinder duties during an operation against the synthetic-oil facilities at Scholven, Germany. The cause of loss and crash location are unknown to date

Flying Officer Howard Raymond Dryer (RCAF), Flying Officer Gerald Gordon Fox (RCAF), Pilot Officer Alan Wardell Haley (RCAF), Sergeant Thomas Raymond Harrigan (RCAF), Pilot Officer Ernest Richard Kaesemodel (RCAF), Pilot Officer Donald John MacFarlane (RCAF), Flying Officer James Murray Phillips (RCAF) and Flying Officer Frederick Harold Wilsher (RCAF) were all missing, presumed killed in action

The missing have no known grave and all are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial

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unvetted Source Accident Avro Lancaster Mk III PB525 Friday 29 December1944

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