Robert B. Mullinger                                                                                 Updated: 05 JAN 2022

Airman: e777550.htm Surname: Mullinger Init: R B Rank: Sgt Service: RAAF Sqdn: 12

P_link: p132.htm Plane: LAN W4372 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d180143 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Kl. 16:34 den 17. januar 1943 lettede LAN W4372 fra RAF Wickenby på bombetogt mod Berlin. Se Lancaster fotos.
Flyet medførte en 4.000 pund bombe og brandbomber og gik tabt sammen med 3 andre fly fra denne squadron. (Kilde: MACR) (Ingen af de 3 i www.airmen.dk)

A. Mitchell blev fundet drevet ind på Søgaard Forstrand (omkring her) den 14. maj 1943. Han blev begravet i Esbjerg den 18. maj 1943. (Kilde: AOD+p132MACR)

Pilot Officer Robert Bruce Mullinger, 33 år, var søn af Ernest Albert og Margaret Mullinger.
Hans navn er på Panel 191 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Han var Wireless Operator  på
LAN W4372. (Kilde: MACR)

1 flyver fra LAN W4372 blev begravet i Esbjerg. 6 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
7 flyvere.

At 16:34 on 17 January 1943 LAN W4372 took off from RAF Wickenby on a bombing raid targeting Berlin.
It carried a 4,000 lb. bomb and incendiaries and was lost with 3 other aircraft from this squadron. (None of them on www.airmen.dk)
The plane crashed in the North Sea. No survivors. (Source: MACR)

A. Mitchell was found washed ashore on Søgaard Forstrand (about here) on 14 May 1943. He was buried in Esbjerg on 18 May 1943. (Source: AOD+p132MACR)

Pilot Officer Robert Bruce Mullinger, 33, was the son of Ernest Albert and Margaret Mullinger.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 191, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He was the
Wireless Operator of LAN W4372. (Source: MACR) Virtual War Memorial Australia has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 77. 

1 airman from LAN W4372 was buried in Esbjerg. 6 airmen have no known grave.

See Lancaster * Lancaster Photos * No. 12 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia12 Squadron RAF at RAF-Lincolnshire.info * 12 Squadron - RAFA.
Lancaster I W4372 PH-G took off from RAF Wickenby at 16:34 on 17 JAN 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this) 7 airmen.