Den 4. oktober 1943 styrtede LAN JA972 under et bombetogt mod Kassel (her) i Nordsøen ud for Hollands kyst. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p231MACR)

F. R. Heeley blev fundet drevet ind på Meyers Sand (omkring her) syd for Fanø. Den 4. januar 1944 blev han begravet i Esbjerg. (Kilde: AOD)

S/Ldr John Edward Ross Hayter, 24 år, var søn af Ross John F. og Edith Hayter, Fransch Hoek, Cape Province, South Africa;
gift med Audrey Hunter Hayter (f. Godwin), Cranleigh, Surrey, United Kingdom.
Hæderstegn: DFC, Distinguished Flying Cross.
Han blev begravet på TEXEL (DEN BURG) CEMETERY, K 5 108 i HOLLAND. (Kilde: CWGC)

Han var Pilot på LAN JA972. (Kilde: MACR)

1 flyver fra LAN JA972 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 4 i HOLLAND. 2 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.

Se Lancaster Fotos. 7 flyvere.

On 4 October 1943 LAN JA972 on a bombing raid targeting Kassel (here) crashed in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. No survivors. (Source: p231MACR)

F. R. Heeley was found washed ashore on Meyer's Sand (about here) south of Fanø. On 4 January 1944 he was buried in Esbjerg. (Source: AOD)

S/Ldr John Edward Ross Hayter, 24, was the son of Ross John F. and Edith Hayter, of Fransch Hoek, Cape Province, South Africa,
and the husband of Audrey Hunter Hayter (nèe Godwin), of Cranleigh, Surrey, United Kingdom.
Awards: DFC, the Distinguished Flying Cross.
He was buried in TEXEL (DEN BURG) CEMETERY, K 5 108 in HOLLAND. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 47.

He was the Pilot of LAN JA972. (Source: MACR)

1 airman from LAN JA972 was buried in Esbjerg and 4 in HOLLAND. 2 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 83 Squadron RAF -Wikipedia * Lancaster Photos.

Lancaster III JA972 OL-D took off from RAF Wyton at 1855 hrs on 03 OCT 1943 targeting Kassel. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this)  7 airmen.