Lancaster B.I ED327 - Kattegat northeast of Anholt                         Updated:  04 JUN 2009
 

Lancaster B.I ED327 (BH-R) fra 300 PAF Squadron var på bombetogt til Stettin, da flyet over Jylland blev svært beskadiget af en tysk natjager.

Pilot F/O Harry Lupton prøvede at nå Sverige, men kort før 01.00 den 30. august 1944 ramte flyet vandet nordøst for Anholt, omkring her.
6 flyvere fra ED327 har ingen kendt grav. Måske er den ukendte flyver i Falkenberg fra dette fly.

Den 8. september 1944 blev liget af Sgt Baron fundet i farvandet ud for Falkenberg, og den 12. september blev han begravet
Falkenbergs Skogskyrkogård, Sverige. (Kilde: FT 91-6-37) Han blev fundet her den 8. september 1944 (Kilde: Lars Wikander).

Dette fly er ikke medtaget i Airwar over Denmark. Ingen fra dette fly kom til Danmark. Derfor er det heller ikke i databasen i Allierede flyvere 1939-45 DK.

  Lancaster B.I ED327 (BH-R) from 300 (Polish) Squadron was on a bombing raid to Stettin, when the plane was heavily damaged over
Jutland by a German night fighter.

Pilot F/O Harry Lupton tried to make it to Sweden, but the plane ditched northeast of Anholt about here shortly before 01:00 on 30 August 1944.
6 airmen from ED327 have no known grave. Maybe the Unknown Airman is from this plane.

The body of Sgt Baron was found off Falkenberg on 8 September 1944. He was buried on 12 September 1944 in Falkenberg Forest Cemetery, Sweden.
(Source: FT 91-6-37) He was found here on 8 September 1944. (Source: Lars Wikander)

See No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron * No 300 (Masovian) Squadron300 "Masovian" Polish Bomber Squadron. Lost Bombers has this.

See No. 103 (Polish) Squadron at RAF Bomber Command 60th Anniversary. This Lancaster started from RAF Faldingworth in Lincolnshire.

This plane is not included in Airwar over Denmark. No airmen from this plane came to Denmark, so it is not in the database in Allied Airmen 1939-45 DK either.