Lancaster ME318 Mk.I/III - Bombing Karlsruhe Germany - 1944-12-04 to 1944-12-04
Squadron: (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1944-12-04
Completion Date: 1944-12-04
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Karlsruhe Germany
Target Specific:
Base: Kirmington
Take Off Time: 16.15
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Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
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War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable

Took off from Kirmington at 16:15 in Lancaster Mark I (Sqn code: AS-E Bomber Command) on an operation to Karlsruhe Germany.

Shot down by a night fighter and crashed near target at Worth-Hagenbach Germany.

Claim by Hptm Friedrich Karl Muller Stab I/NJG11 - Worth-Hagenbach: 2,000-3,000m at 19:35. (Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 5 - Theo Boiten). The aircraft crashed approx 1.5miles south east of Bissingen.

Killed: Flight Sergeant Robert James Barr RCAF R/251406 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery grave 4. F. 24. Flying Officer Allen James Reid RCAF J/36936 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery grave 4. F. 20. Flight Sergeant Harry Ray Thyret RCAF R/224882 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery grave 4. F. 21. Flight Sergeant Jack Anthony Joyce RAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery grave 4. F. 25. Sergeant Alexander John Taylor RAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery grave 4. F. 23.

POW: Pilot Officer George Christopher Clewley RCAF J/87350 POW cPoW/Stalag 9C Bad Zulza/Stalag Luft 3 Sagan & Belaria /PoW Number 53693.

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