Lancaster ED492 Mk.I/III - Bombing Wilhelmshaven Germany - 1943-02-18 to 1943-02-19
Squadron: 9 (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1943-02-18
Completion Date: 1943-02-19
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Wilhelmshaven Germany
Target Specific:
Base: RAF Waddington
Take Off Time:
Squadron Code: WS-W
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Germany
Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: flak
Flak Battery: Marine Flak Abt 282
Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable

9 Squadron (Per noctum volamus) RAF Waddington. Lancaster III aircraft ED 492 WS-W was reported as involved in a mid-air collision with another Lancaster near the target area of Wilhelmshaven, Germany by there is also a claim from heavy flak battery Marine Flak Abt 282 at Hooksiel, Germany. The Lancaster crashed at Schreiersort, near Wangerland, Germany with the loss of four aircrew members killed

Flight Sergeant Ernest John Walter Davis (RAFVR), Sergeant James Storey Aird (RAFVR), Sergeant Alfred Thomas Berwick (RAFVR) and Sergeant Ralph William Darlington (RAFVR) were all killed in action

Sergeant Howard Wallace Fullard (RCAF), Warrant Officer James Vaughan (RAFVR) and Warrant Officer John Arthur Jones-Ford (RAFVR) all survived to become Prisoners of War

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One - 1 January - 22 June by Theo Boiten, page 29

Bombers First and Last by Gordon Thorburn, page 377

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