1942-10-05

Crashed

Aachen

Served with 106 Sqn.

1944-04-25

Served with 83 Sqn, 1668 HCU and 5 LFS.

1942-09-11

Missing

Dusseldorf

Initially allocated to 49 Sqn, but transferred to 83 Sqn 3 days later.

1942-08-25

Missing

Frankfurt

Served with 44 Sqn. Crashed at Feluy in Belgium.

1943-04-05

Served with 44 Sqn.

1942-11-23

Crashed

Stuttgart

Served with 49 Sqn. On its last mission it was hit multiple times by flak. 4 crew bailed out. Pilot tried to carry on and thought he was over England, but crash landed on Sark in the Channel Islands.

1942-09-14

Bremen

Served with 97 Sqn and 1654 HCU.

1942-08-12

Missing

Mainz

Served with 106 Sqn.

1943-05-17

Lost without trace

Pilsen

Served with 44 Sqn.

1942-09-11

Missing

Dusseldorf

Served with 61 Sqn. Caused of loss unknown.

1943-03-31

Served with 50 Sqn and 44 Sqn.

1947-07-08

Survived the war. Served with 49 Sqn, 156 Sqn, 1661 HCU, 5 LFS, 1668 HCU. Became 4969M.

1945-09-14

Survived the war. Served with A&AEE, 1654 HCU, 1660 HCU.

1947-01-15

Survived the war. Served with A&AEE, RAF Blyton, 1651 HCU.

1942-10-13

Missing

Wismar

Served with 49 Sqn.

1942-12-24

Served with 50 Sqn and 44 Sqn.

1943-02-05

Turin

Served with 106 Sqn.

1944-02-20

Served with 207 Sqn, 1661 Sqn, 50 Sqn.

1943-09-06

Served with 207 Sqn.

1942-10-31

Missing

Milan

Served with 207 Sqn. Lost on its first operation.

1946-11-08

Survived the war. Initially allocated to 9, 44 and 49 Sqn all on the same day! Served with 9 Sqn, 1661 HCU, 5 LFS.

1943-12-31

Served with 83 Sqn, PFF NTU, 576 Sqn.

1942-08-29

Missing

Kassel

Served with 44 Sqn. Shot down by a night-fighter (Oblt. Wolfrat Bauer of 7./NJG1) and crashed 0026 close to Leer.

1942-12-22

Missing

Munich

Served with 44 Sqn. Aircraft was shot down by a night fighter (Me110) and crashed at Bad Rappenau, near Heilbronn, Germany.

1942-12-18

Missing

Nienburg

Served with 44 Sqn. Hit by naval flak and crashed on the island of Texel.

1944-04-27

Served with 97 Sqn, 1660 HCU, 619 Sqn.

1945-02-09

Served with 1660 HCU and 10 School of Technical Training. Became 3609M.

1942-08-29

Missing

Kassel

Served with 207 Sqn.

1942-10-16

Missing

Cologne

Initially allocated to 207 Sqn but transferred 2 days later. Served with 57 Sqn.

1943-06-12

Served with 50 Sqn, 1660 HCU.

1944-02-17

Served with 9 Sqn, 1661 HCU, 1667 HCU, 103 Sqn, 1 LFS, 1656 HCU.

1943-08-20

Crashed

Training

Served with 9 Sqn. Coded firstly as WS-Z (Zola as shown in photo), then WS-S. Crashed when in circuit at Bardney waiting to land on return from a night cross-country exercise.

1943-01-05

Essen

Served with 207 Sqn.

1943-01-28

Served with 50 Sqn, 44 Sqn, 97 Sqn.

1942-09-03

Lost without trace

Karlsruhe

Initially allocated to 44 Sqn, but transferred 5 days later. Served with 61 Sqn. Pilot sent a wireless message to the effect that he had been attacked by a fighter and was returning on two engines. His IFF plot faded out over France and nothing further was heard.

1943-03-26

St Nazaire

Served with 44 Sqn.

1942-09-16

Essen

Initially allocated to 83 Sqn and 1654 HCU.

1942-08-29

Missing

Kassel

Initially allocated to 49 Sqn, but transferred to 97 Sqn 3 days later. Lost on its first mission.

1943-04-30

Duisburg

Served with 49 Sqn and 156 Sqn.

1947-01-15

Survived the war. Served with 50 Sqn, 44 Sqn, 100 Sqn, 1662 HCU, 1 LFS, 1667 HCU.

1942-12-18

Missing

Diepholz

Initially allocated to 61 Sqn, transferred to 50 Sqn the following day. Served with 9 Sqn.

1943-04-12

Duisburg

Initially allocated to 97 Sqn, transferred to 106 Sqn the following day.

1943-01-24

Missing

Berlin

Served with 9 Sqn. Coded WS-V and named Barbara-Mary.

1945-12-05

Survived the war. Served with 9 Sqn, 622 Sqn, 3 LFS, 1656 HCU.

1943-01-09

Shot Down

Duisburg

Served with 9 Sqn (WS-Y). Shot down over Holland.

1942-09-05

Never allocated to a unit. Served its time with 39 MU.

Unknown

Initially allocated to 9 Sqn, transferred to 50 Sqn the following day. Served with 44 Sqn, 50 Sqn. Became 4451M.

1943-11-30

Served with 44 Sqn, 83 Sqn, PFF NTU, 460 Sqn.

1944-01-31

Served with 50 Sqn, 1667 HCU, 622 Sqn.

1945-04-20

Served with 207 Sqn, 9 Sqn, 1667 HCU, 1661 HCU. Became 4443M.

1942-11-10

Missing

Hamburg

Served with 207 Sqn, 57 Sqn.

1942-09-20

Missing

Munich

Served with 61 Sqn. Caused of loss unknown.

1943-03-02

Lorient

Served with 207 Sqn.

1942-12-17

Turin

Served with 61 Sqn.

1942-09-14

Missing

Bremen

Served with 44 Sqn. Shot down by Oblt. Manfred Meurer, III./NJG I, and crashed 03:26 at Emst, Gelderland, Holland.

1942-10-17

Missing

Cologne

Served with 97 Sqn.

1943-04-30

Duisburg

Served with 207 Sqn.

1943-03-14

Munich

Served with 207 Sqn.

1942-09-18

Crashed

Essen

Served with 61 Sqn. Crashed at Heiligenhaus-Hosel, 14 Kn NE of Dusseldorf.

1946-09-27

Served with 207 Sqn, 1660 HCU, 15 Sqn, 622 Sqn, 15 Sqn, 75 Sqn, 1654 HCU.

1943-04-26

Berlin

Served with 97 Sqn.

1943-01-04

Shot Down

Minelaying

Served with 44 Sqn. Shot down by a night-fighter flown by Major Gunther Radusch of Stab. 11./NJG3. Intercepted in the gardening area at a height of 2500 metres. Crashed into the sea, West of Sylt near Romo Island at approx 20.00hrs.

1942-09-19

Missing

Gardening (Deodars)

Served with 44 Sqn.

1942-09-17

Missing

Essen

Served with 106 Sqn.

1942-09-17

Missing

Essen

Served with 106 Sqn.

1942-11-10

Missing

Hamburg

Initially allocated to 207 Sqn but transferred 2 days later. Served with 44 Sqn. Exploded in the air south east of Ramelsloh, 15km south of Hamburg.

Unknown

Initially allocated to 207 Sqn but transferred 2 days later. Served with 49 Sqn, 1660 HCU, 15 Sqn, LFS, 1651 HCU. Became 4915M.

1942-12-28

Crashed

Duisburg

Initially allocated to 61 Sqn and 9 Sqn on the same day. Served with 9 Sqn. Collided with W4259 of 44 Sqn on its last mission.

1943-01-22

Served with 44 Sqn and 1661 HCU.

1942-09-20

Missing

Munich

Served with 9 Sqn.

1942-12-22

Missing

Munich

Served with 9 Sqn.

1942-09-18

Missing

Essen

Served with 9 Sqn.

1942-10-02

Missing

Wismar

Served with 44 Sqn. Crashed at 2119hrs, on the Skallingen, NW of Esbjerg, Denmark.

1942-10-07

Missing

Osnabruck

Served with 44 Sqn. Crashed at Quackenbruck.

1943-01-31

Hamburg

Initially allocated to 49 Sqn, transferred the next day. Served with 57 Sqn.

1943-09-01

Initially allocated to 49 Sqn, transferred the next day. Served with 57 Sqn, 1661 HCU

1942-12-23

Missing

Munich

Served with 207 Sqn.

1943-01-14

Shot Down

Essen

Served with 61 Sqn. Shot down, crashing near Dusseldorf.

1947-01-15

Survived the war. Served with 83 Sqn, 1662 HCU, 1668 HCU.

1942-11-10

Hamburg

Served with 50 Sqn.

1942-10-17

Missing

Cologne

Served with 106 Sqn.

1943-03-31

Initially allocated to 57 Sqn. Transferred 2 days later. Served with 49 Sqn, 156 Sqn, 50 Sqn.

1947-01-15

Survived the war. Served with 9 Sqn, 97 Sqn, 1667 HCU.

1943-11-30

Crashed

Berlin

Served with 61 Sqn. Crashed onto the Borgermoor S of Surwold.

1943-04-05

Missing

Berlin

Served with 44 Sqn. Crashed at Strausberg, 33 km ENE of Berlin.

1943-07-28

Served with 9 Sqn, 97 Sqn, 1656 HCU.

1943-03-24

Minelaying

Served with 57 Sqn.

1942-09-24

Missing

Wismar

Served with 9 Sqn.

1946-03-18

Survived the war. Served with 83 Sqn, 1662 HCU, 1667 HCU, 1662 HCU, 101 Sqn, 1 LFS, 1662 HCU, 1 LFS, 1651 HCU.

1944-07-24

Served with 57 Sqn, 1660 HCU, 50 Sqn, 5 LFS.

1942-10-14

Kiel

Served with 61 Sqn.

1942-12-22

Missing

Munich

Served with 57 Sqn.

1947-01-15

Survived the war. Served with 49 Sqn, 156 Sqn, PFF NTU, 9 Sqn.

1943-08-13

Shot Down

Mannheim

Served with 61 Sqn. Shot down by a night fighter , crashing at Marbehan in Belgium.

1942-09-30

Missing

Gardening

Served with 9 Sqn.

1942-10-03

Crashed

Krefeld

Served with 106 Sqn.

1942-11-16

Served with 9 Sqn and 97 Sqn.

1943-10-22

Served with 57 Sqn and 467 Sqn.

1945-09-20

Survived the war. Initially served with RAE. Then transferred to 1662 HCU, 1 LFS, 300 Sqn, 1 LFS, 1662 HCU, BCIS. Became 5287M.

1943-10-13

Served with 106 Sqn.

1947-06-18

Unknown.

1942-11-14

Crashed

Gardening (River Adour)

Served with 61 Sqn. Returned in poor visibility and crashed on farmland near Honiton, Devon trying to reach RAF Exeter.

1944-01-31

Served with 49 Sqn, 156 Sqn, PFF NTU, 576 Sqn.

1942-11-20

Gardening

Served with 57 Sqn.

1942-11-10

Missing

Hamburg

Served with 57 Sqn.

1945-11-07

Survived the war. Served with 9 Sqn, 460 Sqn, 1667 HCU, 622 Sqn, 3 LFS, 5 LFS.

1947-01-15

Survived the war. Served with 9 Sqn, 97 Sqn, 1661 HCU, 3 LFS.

1942-12-17

Crashed

Turin

Served with 57 Sqn.

1942-10-42

Missing

Milan

Served with 57 Sqn.

1943-04-08

Kiel

Served with 57 Sqn.

1944-11-04

Survived the war, served with 9 Sqn, 106 Sqn, 1661 HCU, 1654 HCU, 3 LFS, 1653 HCU. Became 4914M.

1943-04-25

Stettin

Served with 9 Sqn and 57 Sqn.

1942-12-18

Served with 97 Sqn and 1654 HCU.

1943-06-29

Served with 61 Sqn (no ops) and 106 Sqn.

1943-04-30

St. Nazaire

Served with 57 Sqn.

1944-06-06

Initially allocated to 57 Sqn. Transferred the following day. Served with 49 Sqn, 1661 HCU, 5 LFS.

1942-12-29

Crashed

Duisburg

Initially allocated to 57 Sqn. Transferred two days later. Served with 44 Sqn. Collided with a 9 Sqn aircraft (W4182) after take off on its last operation.

1943-09-13

Initially allocated to 67 Sqn. Transferred the following day. Served with 83 Sqn, 1654 HCU.

1943-01-15

Essen

Served with 106 Sqn.

1942-11-18

Crashed

Gardening

Served with 57 Sqn.

1945-05-45

Survived the war. Served with 1656 HCU, 460 Sqn, 625 Sqn, 1 LFS, 1667 HCU.

1945-07-07

Survived the war. Served with 1656 HCU, 1662 HCU, 1668 HCU. Became 5289M.

1942-11-08

Crashed

Genoa

Served with 9 Sqn.

1942-12-18

Soltau

Served with 50 Sqn (may have been a little time with 44 Sqn in the middle)

1943-01-27

Served with 50 Sqn and 44 Sqn.

1944-02-18

Served with 44 Sqn, 1654 HCU, 622 Sqn.

1943-05-17

Shot Down

Duisburg

Served with 61 Sqn. Hit by flak and crashed onto the Zuiderzeepark highway in Amsterdam.

1943-02-28

Served with 61 Sqn.

1944-08-14

Served with 9 Sqn, 1661 HCU, 3 LFS.

1944-02-18

Served with 61 Sqn, 1654 HCU, 15 Sqn, 622 Sqn.

1942-12-01

Missing

Stuttgart

Served with 460 Sqn.

1943-01-05

Essen

Served with 460 Sqn.

1943-07-31

Served with 101 Sqn.

1943-10-23

Served with 101 Sqn and 207 Sqn.

1943-01-09

Shot Down

Minelaying

Served with 44 Sqn. Shot down at 21.10hrs 3kms North of Aabenraa nr Romo Island by a Dornier 217 J-1 night-fighter (from Westerland Airfield) and flown by Fw. Ernst Baader of 4./NJG3. Crashed on fire into Sost Forest nr Aabenraa.

1942-10-27

Crashed

Genoa

Served with 97 Sqn. Crash landed at North Luffenham on its last operation.

1943-10-08

Crashed

Kassel

Served with 61 Sqn. Crashed at Rothwesten, NNE of Kassel.

1943-10-09

Served with 61 Sqn and 460 Sqn.

1942-10-17

Missing

Cologne

Served with 106 Sqn.

1943-06-02

Served with 50 sqn and 1654 HCU.

1942-11-22

Lost without trace

Stuttgart

Served with 44 Sqn.

1943-05-17

Shot Down

Pilsen

Served with 44 Sqn. Shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Herbert Lütje of the 8./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Twente airfield, the Netherlands.

1942-10-31

Crashed

Milan

Served with 49 Sqn.

1942-11-10

Missing

Hamburg

Served with 57 Sqn.

1943-01-24

Dusseldorf

Served with 460 Sqn.

1944-10-18

Survived the war. Served with 101 Sqn, 1667 HCU, 1 LFS, 1664 HCU. Became 4904M

1943-04-30

Kiel

Served with 460 Sqn.

1943-06-30

Served with 101 Sqn.

1942-12-23

Crashed

Training

Served with 101 Sqn. Crashed on an air test in bad weather at Holme on Spalding Moor. No injuries.

1943-02-12

Wilhelmshaven

Served with 101 Sqn.

1943-09-14

Served with 49 Sqn, 156 Sqn, 1662 Sqn.

1944-01-02

Dusseldorf

Served with 50 Sqn, PFF NTU, 50 Sqn, 61 Sqn.

1943-06-13

Served with 460 Sqn.

1943-04-21

Shot Down

Pilsen

Served with 61 Sqn. Homebound, the Lancaster was shot down by Hpt Rudolf Altendorf, crashing near Mons in Belgium.

1943-03-19

Spezia

Served with 103 Sqn.

1942-12-23

Missing

Gardening

Served with 101 Sqn. Was shot down by our own Ack Ack when returning damaged from a Gardening operation and strayed north to Redcar when a Luftwaffe raid was happening.

1943-06-25

Served with 460 Sqn.

1943-01-17

Berlin

Served with 1656 HCU and 101 Sqn.

1943-03-31

Berlin

Served with 101 Sqn (and maybe 460 Sqn)

1943-09-10

Served with 103 Sqn.

1943-09-30

Served with 101 Sqn.

1943-04-30

Stettin

Served with 460 Sqn.

1942-11-16

Served with 101 Sqn.

1943-03-31

Berlin

Served with 460 Sqn.

1947-01-15

Survived the war. Served with 103 Sqn, 12 Sqn, 1656 HCU, 5 LFS.

1943-06-13

Served with 460 Sqn.

1943-04-30

Stettin

Served with 460 Sqn.

1943-04-30

Pilsen

Served with 460 Sqn.

1943-06-17

Served with 460 Sqn.

1943-04-09

Served with 103 Sqn.

1942-12-21

Missing

Duisburg

Served with 103 Sqn.

1943-01-24

Essen

Served with 103 Sqn.

1943-02-27

Cologne

Served with 103 Sqn.

1943-12-05

Served with 103 Sqn and 576 Sqn.

1943-01-24

Essen

Served with 103 Sqn.

1943-01-01

Frankfurt

Served with 103 Sqn.

1943-01-24

Served with 103 Sqn.

1944-03-19

Abandoned

Stuttgart

Served with 97 Sqn, 1661 HCU, 15 Sqn. Outward-bound and east of Vesoul in the Haute-Saône département (France), the aircraft was shot up in a 'Schräge Musik' attack by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Eckart-Wilhelm von Bonin of the Stab II./NJG 1, who was flying Bf 110 G-4 G9+BC from Saint-Dizier airfield in Haute-Marne, France. Later on, the aircraft started shaking uncontrollably and was safely vacated by the crew over the Lac de Neuchâtel lake in Switzerland.

1942-12-16

Served with 97 Sqn.

1943-10-26

Shot Down

Kassel

Served with 61 Sqn. Shot down by Hauptmann Manfred Meurer of the Stab I./NJG 1, flying a Heinkel He 219 A-0 from Venlo airfield, the Netherlands.

1947-10-23

Survived the war. Served with 49 Sqn, 57 Sqn, 1661 HCU, 5 LFS, 1653 HCU. Became 4968M.

1943-01-13

Served with 57 Sqn??????

1942-11-23

Missing

Stuttgart

Served with 57 Sqn.

1943-03-04

Berlin

Served with 103 Sqn.

1943-02-18

Milan

Served with 103 Sqn.

1943-08-01

Served with 103 Sqn.

1943-08-30

Served with 103 Sqn. Known as "Willie" it was the first Lancaster to complete 50 operations.

1943-01-25

Essen

Served with 207 Sqn.

1943-05-18

Shot Down

Bochum

Served with 12 Sqn. Hit by heavy Flak unit 3./schwere Flak-Abteilung 524 (o). Crashed near Gelsenkirchen.

1943-06-29

Served with 50 Sqn and 106 Sqn.

1943-01-25

Missing

Berlin

Served with 12 Sqn. Crashed Ribnitz.

1943-01-12

Crashed

Essen

Served with 12 Sqn. Hit by flak and crashed near Duisburg.

1943-09-14

Shot Down

Mannheim

Served with 12 Sqn.

1943-01-21

Minelaying

Served with 12 Sqn.

1943-01-25

Missing

Berlin

Served with 12 Sqn. Lost in the sea off the Danish coast.

1943-06-21

Crashed

Dusseldorf

Served with 12 Sqn. Crashed in the target area.

1943-06-23

Served with 12 Sqn.

1943-02-23

Wilhelmshaven

Served with 467 Sqn and 57 Sqn.

1945-01-11

Served with 467 Sqn, 57 Sqn, 103 Sqn, 166 Sqn, 300 Sqn, 1 LFS, 1667 HCU, 1662 HCU.

1943-06-26

Served with 467 Sqn and 57 Sqn.