Squadron: 460 Sqn (RAAF)
Start Date: 1943-10-02
Completion Date: 1943-10-02
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Munich Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England
Take Off Time: 18:52
Squadron Code: SR C
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Deisenhofen, Germany
Crash Specifics: 13 miles SSE of centre of Munich
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason:
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
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460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster JA856 took off form RAF Binbrook at 1852 hours on 2 October 1943 to attack Munich, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. It was later established post-war that the aircraft crashed at Deisenhofen, 13 miles south south east of the centre of Munich. All of the crew members were killed: RCAF Flt. Sgt. F. Sheehan (air gunner); RAAF P/O's F.L.R. Lloyd (DFM) (pilot) and A.S. Mitchell (bomb aimer); RAF Sgt's. G. Douglas (flight engineer), L.A. Sim (air gunner), and R.E. Woodford (wireless operator / air gunner); and RAF Flt. Sgt. R. Hurrell (navigator).
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460 Australia Squadron (Strike And Return). Lancaster JA856 took off form RAF Binbrook at 1852 hours on 2 October 1943 to attack Munich, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. It was later established post-war that the aircraft crashed at Deisenhofen, 13 miles south south east of the centre of Munich. All of the crew members were killed: RCAF Flt. Sgt. F. Sheehan (air gunner); RAAF P/O's F.L.R. Lloyd (DFM) (pilot) and A.S. Mitchell (bomb aimer); RAF Sgt's. G. Douglas (flight engineer), L.A. Sim (air gunner), and R.E. Woodford (wireless operator / air gunner); and RAF Flt. Sgt. R. Hurrell (navigator).
