LAN NE167 startede fra RAF Coningsby 16. august 1944 på minelægningstogt og blev skudt ned over Østersøen nær Swinemünde=Swinoujscie.

Se LAN NE167 med mange detaljer om operationen og nedskydningen.

Warrant Officer Leslie Herbert Smith, 24 år, var søn af Arthur William og Alice Smith, Hoton, Leicestershire, United Kingdom. Hæderstegn: DFC, Distinguished Flying Cross.
Hans navn er på Panel 214 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

"Liget af flyets Mid Upper Gunner, Sgt Terence Michael Twomey, DFM, blev fundet ved Dueodde (omkring her) den 27. september 1944, og han blev begravet på Pedersker Kirkegård to dage senere. W/Cdr "ED" Porter og 3 andre besætningsmedlemmer ligger begravet på den gamle garnisonskirkegård i Poznan (her) i Polen, mens 3 andre besætningsmedlemmer aldrig er fundet.

Operationen medførte lukning af kanalen i flere uger, og Porters dygtige ledelse af mineringen medførte en post mortem tildeling af en Bar til hans allerede i live tildelte Distinguished Flying Cross." (FT 87-94-8)  8 flyvere. 

On 16 August 1944 LAN NE167 took off from  RAF Coningsby  on a minelaying mission and was shot down over the Baltic Sea near Swinemünde=Swinoujscie.

See LAN NE167 with many details about the operation and the shooting down.

Warrant Officer Leslie Herbert Smith, 24, was the son of Arthur William and Alice Smith, of Hoton, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
Awards: DFC, Distinguished Flying Cross.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 214, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 99.  

"The body of Mid Upper Gunner, Sgt Terence Michael Twomey, DFM, was found at Dueodde (about here) on 27 September 1944, and he was buried in Pedersker Chuchyard two days later. W/Cdr "ED" Porter and 3 other crew members rest in Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery in Poznan in Poland, while 3 other crew members have never been found.

The operation caused closure of the channel for several weeks, and Porter´s clever stewardship of the minelaying resulted in a post mortem award of a Bar to
the Distinguished Flying Cross he had been awarded earlier."(FT 87-94-8)

Lancaster III NE167 OF-Y  took off from RAF Coningsby at 21:21 on 16 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See Lancaster Photos.
See No. 97 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia and 97 Squadron Association. No. 97 Squadron (RAF) during the Second World War. See also p341MACR.
See RAF Coningsby at RAF-Lincolnshire-info and RAF Coningsby 2018 with Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. See Google Map RAF-Coningsby. 8 airmen.