The Loss of Lancaster JA691

The crew of Lancaster DS630 (115 Sqn)

Take off at 2130hrs from Little Snoring. Believed to have crashed into the Baltic Sea, 2km SE of Gedser in Denmark.

Runnymede Air Force Memorial

F/O F R Pusey
Sgt T M Leonard
F/O C G Bruton RCAF
P/O J D S Cable
Sgt L P Howard
Sgt M G McKibbon RCAF
Sgt J J Corbett

Probably shot down by night fighter pilot Feldwebel Paul Bahr of the 7./NJG 3, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Kopenhagen-Kastrup airfield.

The crashsite of DS630 and the Peenemünde target.

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