Loss Register
Day or Night of operation | Operation | Target | Nickname Aircraft | |||||
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16/17 Dec 43 | Bombing | Berlin | ||||||
Factory | Aircraft | Mk | Serial/Wnr. | Code | Unit | Air Force | TO/t | Airfield |
AVRO | Lancaster | III | JB545 | EA-O | 49 Sqdn | RAF | 1627 | Fiskerton |
Time | Cause of the Crash | Crash Location | Damage | Province |
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1823 | Shot down by Oblt. H.-W. Schnaufer of 12./NJG 1 | Crashed Lindedijk between Sonnega and Oldetrijne | Friesland |
Function | Mil Rank | Ini | Name | Age | Mil reg | Air Force | Fate | Cemetery | Grave | Remarks |
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Pilot | P/O. | G.L. | Ratcliffe | 23 | 158689 | RAF | KIA | Wolvega | 16 1 15-16 | |
Flight Engineer | Sgt. | A.E. | Marsland | 1214303 | RAF | KIA | Wolvega | 16 1 14 | ||
Navigator | Sgt. | E. | Holloway | 25 | 1580024 | RAF | KIA | Wolvega | 16 1 17 | |
Bomb Aimer | Sgt. | W.R. | Day | 20 | 1452920 | RAF | KIA | Wolvega | 16 1 15-16 | |
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner | Sgt. | W.T. | Rees | 23 | 1313451 | RAF | KIA | Wolvega | 16 1 13 | |
Mid Upper Gunner | Sgt. | R. | Losa | R/154427 | RCAF | KIA | Wolvega | 16 1 11 | ||
Rear Gunner | F/Sgt. | B.J.M. | King | 19 | AUS423760 | RAAF | KIA | Wolvega | 16 1 12 |
Wartime Records | Background Info |
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Operations Record Book | Chorley, ‘Bomber Command Losses 1943’, page 421; Boiten, ‘Nachtjagd Combat Archive September-December 1943’, page 103; Jansen, 'Wespennest Leeuwarden III', page 81 |
Version March, 2022