Lancaster B.I ED327 (BH-R)
fra 300 PAF Squadron var på bombetogt til
Stettin, da flyet over
Jylland blev svært beskadiget af en tysk natjager.
Pilot F/O Harry Lupton prøvede at nå Sverige, men kort før 01.00
den 30. august 1944 ramte flyet vandet nordøst for Anholt, omkring
her.
6 flyvere fra ED327 har ingen kendt grav. Måske er
den ukendte flyver i Falkenberg fra dette fly.
Den 8. september 1944 blev liget af Sgt
Baron
fundet i farvandet ud for Falkenberg, og den 12. september blev han begravet
på
Falkenbergs Skogskyrkogård, Sverige. (Kilde: FT 91-6-37) Han blev fundet
her den 8. september 1944 (Kilde: Lars Wikander).
Dette fly er ikke medtaget i
Airwar over Denmark. Ingen fra dette
fly kom til Danmark. Derfor er det heller ikke i databasen i
Allierede flyvere
1939-45 DK.
Lancaster B.I ED327 (BH-R) from 300 (Polish)
Squadron was on a bombing raid to
Stettin, when the plane was heavily damaged over
Jutland by a German night
fighter.
Pilot F/O Harry Lupton tried to make it to Sweden, but the plane ditched northeast of Anholt
about
here shortly before 01:00 on 30 August 1944.
6 airmen from ED327 have no known grave. Maybe
the Unknown Airman is from this plane.
The body of Sgt Baron was found off Falkenberg on 8 September 1944. He was
buried on 12 September 1944 in
Falkenberg Forest Cemetery, Sweden.
(Source: FT 91-6-37)
He was found
here on 8 September 1944. (Source: Lars Wikander)
See No.
300 Polish Bomber Squadron *
No 300 (Masovian) Squadron *
300 "Masovian"
Polish Bomber Squadron. Lost Bombers
has this.
See
No. 103 (Polish)
Squadron at RAF
Bomber Command 60th Anniversary. This
Lancaster started from
RAF
Faldingworth in Lincolnshire.
This plane is not included in
Airwar over Denmark. No airmen from
this plane came to Denmark, so it is not in the database in
Allied Airmen 1939-45 DK
either.
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