Lancaster ME647 Mk.I - Bombing Osterfeld Germany - 1944-12-31 to 1944-12-31
Squadron: 166 (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1944-12-31
Completion Date: 1944-12-31
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Osterfeld Germany
Target Specific:
Base: Kirmington
Take Off Time: 15.10
Squadron Code: AS J
Radio Code:
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Return Time:
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Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
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Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable

149 Lancasters and 17 Mosquitoes of 1 and 8 Groups to attack the railway yards. The only details available are Bomber Command's estimates that the railway sidings ·were 35 percent damaged and the 'facilities' 20 per cent damaged. 2 Lancasters lost.source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt

Claim by Hptm Johannes Hager 6/NJG1 at 19:00. (Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1945 Part 5 - Theo Boiten)

Aircraft came down at Eygelshoven, inside of the Rimburgerweg, near Heerlen, 26 Km east-north-east of Maastricht, just inside Dutch territory and in the already liberated Province of Zuid-Limburg The area had been under Allied control since mid-September 1944. (Aviation Safety Network)

The crew were initially buried in Margraten US Military Cemetery. Fg Off Sherry was reinterred on 24 March 1947. (CWGC). The remaing crew members were reinterred on 20 November 1946. (CWGC) source: John Jones

Crew Listing of Lancaster ME647, Source:Todd Johnson, Bomber Command Museum of Canada
Crew of Lancaster ME647, Source:Todd Johnson, Bomber Command Museum of Canada

Thank you to Wargraves Foundation Nederweert, The Netherlands, for their contribution of the individual crew's images

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