Leslie A. Stevens                                                                                    Updated: 07 OCT 2021

Airman: o888034.htm Surname: Stevens Init: L A Rank: P/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 97

P_link: p263.htm Plane: LAN ND478 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Faaborg

Crash_d: d150244 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW

"Med Berlin som mål nedstyrtede Lancaster ND478 den 15. februar 1944 kl. 19.58 ganske tæt ved Faaborg. Vraget splintredes i større og mindre dele over et 2 kvadratkilometer stort område på "Sundet" og "Grevens Eng". Flyets bomber sprængtes med et vældigt brag, og ca. 100 store butiksruder i byen blev sprængt." (FAF)

Se monument flyttet fra nedstyrtningsstedet til nuværende sted i 1996. 5 flyvere fra LAN ND478 er begravet i Faaborg.
2 blev taget til fange og blev ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre. Se en propel fundet i "Sundet" og Lancaster fotos.

Pilot Officer Leslie A. Stevens blev hentet af tyskerne på Faaborg Sygehus. (Kilde: FAF)
Stevens blev efter krigen rektor i Winnipeg og har flere gange besøgt Faaborg. (Kilde: Claus Jensen)

7 flyvere.

Targeting Berlin on a bombing raid LAN ND478 crashed on 15 February 1944 at 19.58 very near Faaborg. Debris from the plane was scattered over an area of about
2 square km on "The Sound" and "The Count´s Meadow". Bombs on the plane were detonated with an enormous bang, and about 100 big shop windows in the town
were broken.

See monument moved from the crash site to its present place in 1996. 5 airmen from LAN ND478 are buried in Faaborg. 2 became POWs.
See propeller found in "The Sound".

Pilot Officer Leslie A. Stevens was fetched by the Germans at Faaborg Hospital. (Source: FAF)
After the war Stevens became a principal in Winnipeg. He has visited Faaborg some times. (Source: Claus Jensen)

5 airmen from LAN ND478 are buried in Faaborg. 2 became POWs and were taken to German POW-Camps.
See monument moved from the crash site to its present place in 1996. See a propeller found in "The Sound" and Lancaster Photos.

See No. 97 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * 97 Squadron Association * RAF Pathfinders Archive: 97 Squadron Aircrew. 
Lancaster III ND478 OF-Q took off from RAF Bourn at 1705 hrs on 15 FEB 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See also p263MACR. 7 airmen.