John Andrew McLean   Photo: Knud Riis    Updated: 10 MAY 2021

Airman: a014050.htm Surname: McLean Init: J A Rank: F/Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 207

P_link: p099.htm Plane: LAN R5616 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sea S of Mandø

Crash_d: d170842 Buried_d: b220842 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A3. 10. 12

Den 17. august 1942 styrtede LAN R5616 ned ved Mandø (omkring her). (Kilde: p099MACR)

Flyet var på en minelægningsoperation, da det blev skudt ned af en tysk natjager.
6 omkomne besætningsmedlemmer blev begravet i Esbjerg den 22. august 1942.
1 overlevende flyver blev taget til fange. (Kilde: FAF) Se Minelægningsområder.

Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) John Andrew McLean, 26 år, var søn af Peter og Margaret Laird McLean, Victoria Harbour, Ontario, Canada. Spejderleder. (Kilde: CWGC)
Se Lancaster fotos. 7 flyvere.

On 17 August 1942  LAN R5616 crashed near Mandø (about here). (Source: p099MACR)

The plane was on a minelaying operation when it was shot down by a German night fighter.
6 perished crew members were buried in Esbjerg on 22 August 1942.
1 surviving airman became a prisoner of war. (Source: FAF) See Minelaying areas.

Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) John Andrew McLean, 26, was the son of Peter and Margaret Laird McLean,
of Victoria Harbour, Ontario, Canada. Scoutmaster. (Source: CWGC)
Till memory fades and life departs you live forever in our hearts
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, P 72. 

See No. 207 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * 207 Squadron Royal Air Force History * Lancaster Photos.
Lancaster I R5616 EM-J took off from RAF Bottesford at 21.00 hrs on 16 AUG 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.