Norman Edwin Dowden    Photo: Knud Riis     Updated: 10 MAY 2021

Airman: a014061.htm Surname: Dowden Init: N E Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 44

P_link: p117.htm Plane: LAN W4187 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Skallingen

Crash_d: d011042 Buried_d: b071042 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A3. 9. 7

Den 1. oktober 1942 kl. 21.08 styrtede LAN W4187 ned på Skallingen (omkring her).
(Kilde: Kortet Flystyrt ved Esbjerg af Torben Thorsen og Morten S. Jensen)
Det var på bombetogt til Wismar. Ingen overlevende.  (Kilde: p117MACR)
Alle 7 flyvere blev begravet i Esbjerg den 7. oktober 1942. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Norman Edwin Dowden, 27 år, var søn af Edwin William og
Florence Ada Dowden, Wilmington, Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
Se Lancaster fotos.

On 1 October 1942 at 2108 hours  LAN W4187 crashed on Skallingen (about here).
(Source: The map Air Crashes at Esbjerg by Torben Thorsen and Morten S. Jensen)
It was on a bombing raid on Wismar.  No survivors. (Source: p117MACR)

All 7 airmen were buried in Esbjerg on 7 October 1942. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Norman Edwin Dowden, 27, was the son of Edwin William and
Florence Ada Dowden, of Wilmington, Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He died that we may live. An affectionate son and brother
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 1, Panel 30.

See No. 44 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * No. 44 Squadron (RAF): Second World War
RAF-Lincolnshire.info: 44 Squadron * RAF Waddington now * Lancaster Photos

Lancaster I W4187 KM-S took off from RAF Waddington at 18.00 hrs on 01 OCT 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  7 airmen.