Harry John Randall     Photo: Mogens Jeppesen     Updated: 20 MAY 2021
                                                                     
Airman:
 a113075.htm Surname: Randall Init: H J Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 49

P_link: p209.htm Plane: LAN JA691 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Barsmark

Crash_d: d180843 Buried_d: b210843 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 3-5

"Natten til den 18. august 1943 angreb næsten 600 RAF bombere den tyske forsøgsstation ved
Peenemünde på øen Usedom, nord for Stettin. Under returflyvningen fra dette mål blev 3 "Lancaster" fly skudt
ned mellem kl. 02.54 og 03.11 af en og samme tyske natjager. Samtlige ombordværende britiske flyvere
omkom." (FAF) Se beretning fra Pilot, Oberleutnant Hans Meisner modtaget fra Jørgen Jørgensen, Flystyrt.dk.
Se kilden i p209MACR.
Se Det Historiske-Tekniske Museum i Peenemünde.


De 3 fly: LAN JA851 styrtede ned her ved Hellesø gård, LAN JA691 ved Barsmark her og
LAN EE117 ved Ustrup her.
Se monument for flyverne fra LAN JA691 ved nedstyrtningsstedet her.
Se også The Loss of Lancaster JA691 af Malcolm Brooke på siden BomberHistory.co.uk.

Flying Officer (Pilot) Harry John Randall var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
Se også Lancaster fotos og p209MACR. 7 flyvere.

"On the night before 18 August, 1943 nearly 600 RAF bombers attacked the German military test site at Peenemünde on the island of Usedom, north of Stettin. During the return flight from this target 3 Lancasters
were shot down between 02.54 and 03.11 by the very same German night fighter. All British airmen on board
perished." (FAF) See account from Pilot, Oberleutnant Hans Meisner received from Jørgen Jørgensen,
Flystyrt.dk. See the source in p209MACR.
See The Historical Technical Museum in Peenemünde.   

The 3 planes: LAN JA851 crashed here at Hellesø gård, LAN JA691 at Barsmark here  
and LAN EE117 at Ustrup here.

See monument to the airmen from LAN JA691 at the crash site here.
See also
The Loss of Lancaster JA691 by Malcolm Brooke on the website BomberHistory.co.uk.
Here 49 Squadron Association has Personnel Index of this crew and details of its final raid.

Flying Officer (Pilot) Harry John Randall was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 88.

See No. 49 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia*49 Squadron Association*RAF-Lincolnshire - 49 Sqn*Lancaster Photos*RAF Fiskerton HOME PAGE*RAF Fiskerton Airfield.
Lancaster III JA691 EA-L took off from RAF Fiskerton at 21.46 hrs on 17 AUG 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See p209MACR. 7 airmen.