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Took off from Ludford Magna at 15:28 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code SR-W Bomber Command) on an operation Ulm Germany to on ABC duties.
101 Squadron Lancasters were in 1943 equipped with a top secret radio jamming system codenamed "Airborne Cigar" (ABC) operated by an eighth crew member who could understand German, some with German or Jewish backgrounds known as "special operators" commonly abbreviated to "spec ops" or "SO". They sat in a curtained off area towards the rear of the aircraft and located and jammed German fighter controller's broadcasts, occasionally posing as controllers to spread disinformation. The aircraft fitted with the system were distinctive due to the two large vertical antennae rising from the middle of the fuselage. Deliberately breaking the standing operating procedure of radio silence to conduct the jamming made the aircraft highly vulnerable to being tracked and attacked, which resulted in 101 Squadron having the highest casualty rate of any RAF squadron.(Source Wikipedia)
Claimed by an unkown crew 4/NJG5 - South outskirts of Ulm (CU 63): 3,300m at 19:40. (Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 5 - Theo Boiten) Crashed 7km NNE of Ulm
The crew were initially buried in a collective grave at Albeck Cemetery. Reinterred 30 September 1948. (CWGC)Killed: Pilot Officer Frank Coulson RCAF J/91041 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany Coll. grave 8. E. 28-32. Pilot Officer Edmund Alfred John Davies RCAF J/95220 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 8. E. 28-32. Pilot Officer George Edward Deatherage RCAF J/92211 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 8. E. 28-32. Pilot Officer Raymond Ervin Hine RCAF J/91198 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 8. E. 28-32. Flying Officer Donald George Henry Ireland RCAF J/88130 pilot KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 8. E. 28-32. Flying Officer James Cameron Munro RCAF J/36591 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 8. E. 28-32. Sergeant Harold John Black RAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 8. E. 28-32. Sergeant Ernest John Hartman RAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 8. E. 28-32.
The crew were initially buried in a collective grave at Albeck Cemetery. Reinterred 30 September 1948. (CWGC)
