Wellington X3606 Mk. III - Bombing Bremen Germany - 1942-07-28 to 1942-07-29
Squadron: 9 (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1942-07-28
Completion Date: 1942-07-29
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Bremen Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Honington
Take Off Time: 23:09:00
Squadron Code: WS-M
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Germany
Crash Specifics: the Burgerpark, in the Walle District of Bremen
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: flak
Flak Battery: 4/schwere Flak-Abteilung 262
Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable

9 Squadron (Per noctem volamus) RAF Honington. Wellington III aircraft X 3606 WS-M was hit by heavy flak (schwere) Flak of the 4/schwere Flak-Abteilung 262 while homeward-bound from an operation against targets in Bremen, Germany. The Wellington crashed into the Burgerpark, in the Walle District of Bremen, Germany with the loss of four crew members

Pilot Officer Gerard McKee Beech (RCAF), Squadron Leader Harry Ledger (RAF), Pilot Officer John Eric Coleman (RAFVR), and Flight Sergeant Jack Robert Ludkin (RAF) were killed in action

Flight Sergeant David Alan Hunter (RAFVR) was the lone survivor from his crew and was taken as Prisoner of War

There were two Wellington III aircraft 9 Sqn aircraft lost in the same area on this date. Please see aircraft serial X 3475 WS-P for casualty list and detail

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