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 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)
Flight Sergeant Raymond Ben Walls, 22 år,
var søn af Benjamin og H. Bernice Walls, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Hans navn er på Panel 107 på the Runnymede Memorial
blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en
kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
Han var Air Bomber 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)
Flight Sergeant Raymond Ben Walls, 22, was the son of Benjamin and H.
Bernice Walls, of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel
107, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave.
(Source: CWGC)
He was the Air Bomber of
LAN R5741. (Source: MACR - Missing Air Crew Report)
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 1, Panel 111.
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.
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