Peter Banister Mills
Updated: 10 JUN 2022
Airman: e777035.htm Surname: Mills Init: P
B Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 149
P_link: p165.htm Plane: STI BK698 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea
Crash_d: d200443 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
"På en mission til Lübeck natten til den
21. april 1943 forsvandt et "Stirling" fly over Nordsøen. Hele besætningen
omkom.
Flyets navigatør, D. I. McNarey, inddrev som lig ved
Thyborøn. Han begravedes
den 15. maj 1943 af sognepræst Lund.
7 andre besætningsmedlemmer har ingen kendt grav." (FAF)
Archive
Report og
IBCC angiver målet som
Rostock.
Sergeant Peter Banister Mills, 21 år, var søn af Thomas Henry og Annie
Louisa Mills, Church End, Finchley, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er
på Panel 159 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på andre
flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde:CWGC)
Se Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943. Stirling
8 flyvere.
On a mission to
Lübeck on the night
before 21 April, 1943 a "Stirling" disappeared over the North Sea. All of the
crew perished.
The body of Navigator D. I. McNarey drifted in at
Thyborøn. He was buried on 15
May, 1943 by Rector Lund, the parish of Lemvig.
7 other members of the crew have no known grave. (FAF) Archive
Report and the
IBCC mentions Rostock
as the target.
Sergeant Peter Banister Mills, 21, was the son of Thomas Henry and Annie
Louisa Mills, of Church End, Finchley, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the
Runnymede Memorial, Panel 159, among more than 20.000
other airmen who have no known grave. (Source:
CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 212.
See
No. 149 Squadron
RAF - Wikipedia * Stettin +
Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943 *
Stirling * Royal Air Force
Lakenheath
Stirling III BK698 OJ-O took off from
RAF Lakenheath at 22.03 hrs on 20 APR 1943. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this
+ Archive
Report.)
8 airmen.