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Date: | Wednesday 30 August 1944 |
Time: | 00:27 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ED327 |
MSN: | BH-R |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | in Kattegatt, betwen Halland (Sweden) and Anholt Island (Denmark) -
Sweden
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Faldingworth |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Faldingworth at 21:15 Presumed crashed in the Baltic .Sgt Baron is buried in Falkenberg Forest Cemetery Sweden. His six comrades have no known grave.
Heavily damaged by a German fighter over Denmark during bombing raid on Stettin and crashed into Kattegatt Sea.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Harry Lupton RAFVR 179649 (NCO:1474368 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 05 September, 1944) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant John Bryce Hamilton RAFVR 1825268 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Kenneth James Jewell RAFVR 1401468 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Donald John Kelsall Baron RAFVR 1389866 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Warrant Officer Frederick William White RAAF Aus/410758 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Ivor Charles Vaughan RAFVR 1389416 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Stanley Sutton Barnett RAFVR 1584724 [Killed]
Note:-Emblem painted on fuselage of Avro Lancaster I (ED327, BH-R) of No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron. It displays a set of Allied nations flags over a white dove of peace with an inscription: 'Facta Non Verba' - 'Deeds not Words'. (Imperial War Museum)
Sources:
Falkenbergs Museum/Lars Wikander: De kom aldrog hem (1994)
Wikander, Lars et al: Flygdramatik i Halland under andra världskriget (1995)
Air Britain: RAF Aircraft EA100 - EZ999, published 2010
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 405.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/lupton-harry.html http://www.hambo.org/lancing/view_man.php?id=14 http://www.flensted.eu.com/1944augustcombats.shtml Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
13-Sep-2011 04:41 |
Uli Elch |
Added |
13-Sep-2011 05:12 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Location, Narrative] |
28-Dec-2011 14:33 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative] |
05-Jul-2016 21:32 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
17-Feb-2018 17:16 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport] |
04-Feb-2020 12:23 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
17-Jun-2021 18:24 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Date, Time, Other fatalities, Source] |
16-Jun-2022 10:19 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
03-Jun-2024 06:27 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |