Alan McNeil                                                                                           Updated: 10 MAY 2021

Airman: e777510.htm Surname: McNeil Init: A Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 97

P_link: p104.htm Plane: LAN R5741 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d020942 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 2. september 1942 styrtede  LAN R5741 i havet. Hele besætningen omkom.
Flyet forlod RAF Woodhall Spa kl. 23.46 den 1. september 1942 på et bombetogt mod Saarbrücken. (Kilde: p104MACR)

Netop startet på en mission måtte dette fly vende om på grund af tekniske vanskeligheder. Fra basen gav man over radioen piloten besked om,
at han skulle lette flyet for en del af sit brændstof. Flyet må være styrtet i havet. (Kilde FAF)

Sergeant Alan McNeil, 22 år, var søn af Samuel og Leonora McNeil, Cullercoats, Northumberland, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 89 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
Han var Flight Engineer på LAN R5741. (Kilde: MACR - blanket om savnet besætning)

1 flyver fra LAN R5741 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 1 i Lemvig. 5 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
Se Lancaster fotos.  7 flyvere.

On 2 September 1942 LAN R5741 crashed into the sea. All of the crew perished.
The plane left RAF Woodhall Spa at 2346 hours on 1 September 1942 on a bombing raid targeting Saarbrücken. (Source: p104MACR)

Right after the start of a mission this plane had to turn around due to technical problems. From the base the Pilot was ordered by radio to lighten
the plane for part of its fuel. The plane must have crashed into the sea. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant Alan McNeil, 22, was the son of Samuel and Leonora McNeil, of Cullercoats, Northumberland, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 89, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He was the Flight Engineer of LAN R5741. (Source: MACR - Missing Air Crew Report)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 72.

1 airman from LAN R5741 was buried in Esbjerg and 1 in Lemvig. 5 airmen have no known grave.
See No. 97 Squadron RAF (Wikipedia) and 97 Squadron Association.  See Lancaster Photos.
Lancaster I R5741 DF-K took off from RAF Woodhall Spa at 23.46 hrs on 01 SEP 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
See also RAF Woodhall Spa at RAF-Lincolnshire-info. 7 airmen.