Lancaster NN758 Mk.I - Bombing Nuremberg Germany - 1945-03-16 to 1945-03-17
Squadron: 103 (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1945-03-16
Completion Date: 1945-03-17
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Nuremberg Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Elsham Wolds
Take Off Time: 17:15:00
Squadron Code: PM-S
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Germany
Crash Specifics: two miles north of Laichingen
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim: Feldwebel Joseph Brunner of 10/NJG6
War Diary Unavailable

6 Bomber Group March 16/17, 1945

12 Lancasters from 424, 427, and 433 squadrons were ordered on a mining operation to Heligoland. The crews were over the garden at between 8,500and 10,000 feet, sowing 66@1500 lb mines. Richard Koval (6bombergroup.ca)

103 Squadron (Noli me tangere) RAF Elsham Wolds. Lancaster I aircraft NN 758 PM-S was shot down by night fighter pilot Feldwebel Joseph Brunner of 10/NJG6, crashing two miles north of Laichingen, Germany during a night operation against targets in Nuremberg, Germany

Only one crew member survived the loss of this aircraft

Flight Lieutenant Alastair Clarence Watt (RCAF), Flight Sergeant William Henry Fetherston (RCAF), Pilot Officer Albert Edward Wotherspoon (RCAF), Flight Sergeant George William Blackshaw (RAFVR), Flight Sergeant James Stanley Hickey (RAFVR) and Sergeant James Frederick Jackson (RAFVR) were all killed in action

Flight Sergeant Albert Charles Bellisle (RCAF) bailed out and survived to be taken as Prisoner of War

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1945 1 January - 3 May by Theo Boiten, page 83

unvetted Source Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database

unvetted Source Al Watt 103 Sqn

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