Den 22. marts 1945 styrtede LAN ME372 i Nordsøen i forbindelse med et bombetogt til Hamborg. Hele besætningen omkom. Se p417MACR.

E. K. Whitechurch blev fundet ilanddrevet den 19. juni 1945 på Vejers Strand (omkring her).
Med hestevogn blev hans lig ført til strandfoged Bloch, Vejers, hvor ligsynet blev foretaget. Den 23. juni 1945 blev han begravet i Mosevrå. (Kilde: FAF)

6 flyvere blev meldt savnet.

Sergeant Thomas L. O'Marah, 22 år, var søn af Joseph Christopher og Cecelia Florence O'Marah, Bargoed, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 276 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

7 flyvere.

On 22 March 1945 LAN ME372 crashed into the North Sea in connection with a bombing raid on Hamburg. All of the crew perished. See p417MACR.

On 19 June 1945 E. K. Whitechurch was found drifted ashore on Vejers Strand (about here). He was taken on a horsedrawn carriage to receiver of wrecks
Bloch, Vejers for a medical inspection of his body. On 23 June 1945 he was buried in Mosevraa Churchyard. (Source: FAF)

6 airmen were reported Missing in Action.

Sergeant Thomas L. O'Marah, 22, was the son of Joseph Christopher and Cecelia Florence O'Marah, of Bargoed, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 276, 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 80.    

See No. 227 Squadron RAF * Lancaster-Wikipedia * Lancaster photos.
Lancaster I ME372 9J-U took off from RAF Balderton at 01:22 on 21 MAR 1945. Ditched at 54N 07E. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.