James Pickup                                                                                          Updated: 22 NOV 2021

Airman: e777264.htm Surname: Pickup Init: J Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 44

P_link: p403.htm Plane: LAN NG396 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Baltic Sea

Crash_d: d070345 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 7. marts 1945 styrtede LAN NG396 i Østersøen i forbindelse med et bombetogt til Sassnitz. Hele besætningen omkom. (Kilde: p403MACR)

6 flyvere blev meldt savnet.

Pilot Officer James Pickup, 32 år, var søn af James og Ada Pickup; gift med Jean Pickup, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 268 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

7 flyvere.

On 7 March 1945 LAN NG396 crashed into the Baltic Sea in connection with a bombing raid on Sassnitz. All of the crew perished. (Source: p403MACR)

6 airmen were reported Missing in Action.

Pilot Officer James Pickup, 32, was the son of James and Ada Pickup, and the husband of Jean Pickup, of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 268, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 85.  

See No. 44 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia*History of No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron* No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron Association*No. 44 Squadron (RAF): Second World War
RAF-Lincolnshire.info: 44 Squadron * Lancaster *
Lancaster Photos.

Lancaster I NG396 KM-G took off from RAF Spilsby at 18:31 on 06 MAR 1945. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.