Squadron: 467 (B) Sqn (RAAF)
Start Date: 1943-09-24
Completion Date: 1943-09-24
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Essen Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Bottesford, Lincolnshire, England
Take Off Time: 19:01
Squadron Code: PO Y
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Mannheim, Germany
Crash Specifics: Hockenheim, Baden-Württemberg
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: fighter
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim: shot down by the crew of Oberleutnant Becker & Unteroffizier Johanssen of the Stab I./NJG 6, who were flying Bf 110 G-4 2Z+HB from Mainz-Finthen airfield (Rheinland-Pfalz)
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
467 Australia Squadron. Lancaster aircraft EE 135 was shot down near Mannheim, Germany during a night trip to Essen, Germany. RCAF W/O II M.C. Craik and FS H.A. Green was killed. Five of the remaining non-Canadian crew were also killed: RAF Flt. Sgt's. T.T. Francis and J.B. Harrison; and RAAF Pilot Officer A. Long and Flt. Sgt. O.J. Lumsden.
6 Group Unavailable
467 Australia Squadron. Lancaster aircraft EE 135 was shot down near Mannheim, Germany during a night trip to Essen, Germany. RCAF W/O II M.C. Craik and FS H.A. Green was killed. Five of the remaining non-Canadian crew were also killed: RAF Flt. Sgt's. T.T. Francis and J.B. Harrison; and RAAF Pilot Officer A. Long and Flt. Sgt. O.J. Lumsden.
