James Potter                                                                                                Updated: 11 OCT 2021

Airman: e777713.htm Surname: Potter Init: J Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 625

P_link: p315.htm Plane: LAN LL894 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d160544 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 16. maj 1944 styrtede LAN LL894 ned i Nordsøen under en minelægningsoperation nær Kiel. (Kilde: p315MACR)
Se Minelægningsområder i farver med det gule område Wallflower = Kiel Bugt. Ingen overlevende.


Sgt Dix blev fundet drevet ind nær Sønderho på Fanø (omkring her). Han blev begravet i Esbjerg den 19. juni 1944. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant James Potter, 18 år, var søn af Robert Arthur og Eleanor Margaret Potter, Birkenshaw, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 236 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Han var Mid Upper Gunner på LAN LL894. (Kilde: MACR)

1 flyver fra LAN LL894 blev begravet i Esbjerg. 6 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.


On 16 May 1944 LAN LL894 crashed in the North Sea on a minelaying operation near Kiel. No survivors. (Source: p315MACR)
See Minelaying areas in colour with the yellow area Wallflower = Kiel Bay.

Sgt Dix was found washed ashore near Sønderho on Fanø (about here). He was buried in Esbjerg on 19 June 1944. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant James Potter, 18, was the son of Robert Arthur and Eleanor Margaret Potter, of Birkenshaw, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 236, 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 86.

He was the Mid Upper Gunner of LAN LL894. (Source: MACR)

1 airman from LAN LL894 was buried in Esbjerg. 6 airmen have no known grave.

This Lancaster was from No. 625 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia.

Lancaster I LL894 CF-T took off from RAF Kelstern at 2202 hrs on 15 MAY 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  See Lancaster Photos.  

7 airmen.