Den 17. august 1944 styrtede LAN PB239 i Nordsøen (måske omkring her). Hele besætningen omkom.
Flyets opgave var at kaste synlig markering og derefter bomber på målet Kiel.
Andre fly kunne derpå kaste bomber efter markeringen fra denne Stifinder. (Kilde: p343MACR - rapport om tabt fly)

C. H. Fisher og F. D. Billingsley blev begravet i Kiel i Tyskland. (Kilde: FAF)
Flying Officer (Pilot) Charles Harold Fisher var fra Canada. Hæderstegn: DFC, Distinguished Flying Cross.
Han blev begravet på KIEL WAR CEMETERY 3. C. 12. i  TYSKLAND. (Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra LAN PB239 blev begravet i Kirkeby, 1 i Esbjerg og 2 i Kiel i Tyskland. 3 har ingen kendt grav.
Se Lancaster Fotos.  8 flyvere.

On 17 August 1944 LAN PB239 crashed in the North Sea (maybe about here). All of the crew perished.
The mission of this aircraft was visual marking and bombing targeting Kiel. (Source: p343MACR)
The Pathfinders helped to make bombing more accurate.

C. H. Fisher and F. D. Billingsley were buried in Kiel in Germany. (Source: FAF)

Flying Officer (Pilot) Charles Harold Fisher was from Canada. Awards: DFC, the Distinguished Flying Cross.
He was buried in KIEL WAR CEMETERY 3. C. 12. in GERMANY. (Source: CWGC)
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada. The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 164.

2 airmen from LAN PB239 were buried in Kirkeby, 1 in Esbjerg and 2 in Kiel in Germany. 3 have no known grave.

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Squadron RCAF * 405 Squadron Association * No. 405 Squadron RAF Pathfinders
See also Lancaster Photos * Lancaster - Bomber Command Museum of Canada * Avro 683 Lancaster Mk X - IWM Duxford *  Lancaster-Wikipedia *  LAN-HAL

Lancaster III PB239 LQ-D took off from RAF Gransden Lodge at 21.15 hrs on 16 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)   8 airmen.