Graham William Nixon    Photo: Knud Riis   Updated: 13 JAN 2023

Airman:
 a014245.htm Surname: Nixon Init: G W Rank: F/Lt Service: RAF Sqdn: 582

P_link: p376.htm Plane: LAN PB378 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d160944 Buried_d: b111111 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 13. 13

Den 16. september 1944 styrtede LAN PB378 i Nordsøen i forbindelse med et bombetogt til Kiel.
Alle ombord omkom. (Kilde: FAF) Se p376MACR.

Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Graham William Nixon var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Han blev fundet på Fanø strand (måske omkring her) og blev gravet ned på stedet af Værnemagten i efteråret
1944. Efter krigen blev han overført til Esbjerg, hvor han blev begravet den 19. december 1945.


2 flyvere fra LAN PB378 har ingen kendt grav, 2 er begravet i Tyskland, 2 i Esbjerg og 1 i Nr. Haurvig.

Se Lancaster fotos. 7 flyvere.

On 16 September 1944 LAN PB378 crashed into the North Sea on a bombing raid on Kiel. All on board perished. (Source: FAF) See p376MACR.

Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Graham William Nixon was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)

In the autumn of 1944 he was found on Fanø Beach (maybe about here) and dug down on the spot by the
German Wehrmacht. After the war he was transferred to Esbjerg, where he was buried on 19 December 1945.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 219.   

2 flyvere fra LAN PB378 have no known grave, 2 are buried in Germany, 2 in Esbjerg and 1 in Nr. Haurvig.
See No. 582 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia.
This Lancaster - see Lancaster Photos - took off from RAF Little Staughton.
See the LITTLE STAUGHTON - RAF Book of Remembrance.

Lancaster III PB378 6O-T took off from  RAF Little Staughton at 22:26 on 15 OCT 1944.
(Source: 
Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.