Personnel Index - Detail
L to R:
Jock Paterson, Jimmy Green, Doug Bickle, Arthur Buck, Cyril Anderson and John Nugent
This airman flew Lancaster ED999 at least once....click for an image and information about this aircraft.
A later picture of Pilot Officer Anderson in the back garden of Montague Street, Bulwell, Nottingham
Cyril married Rose Darby at Nottingham Registry Office in late 1939.
23/24 September, 1943; MANNHEIM:
The northern part of Mannheim suffered bombing from 628 aircraft. It cost Bomber Command 18 Lancasters, 7 Halifaxes and 7 Wellingtons.
After their mid-afternoon bus trip from Fiskerton, 13 crews had climbed away from Dunholme Lodge by 18.56hrs. Once over the target, fighters were again much in evidence. The use of searchlights in co-ordination with fighters accounted for many of the losses.
Sadly, the luck of two other 49 Squadron crews did not hold out. Cyril Anderson and his 'Dambuster' crew flying in the Wingco's aircraft, D-Donald, failed to return and were all later reported killed... this would have been their 21st operation.
ED702 (EA-D)
P/O C T. Anderson Pilot (Killed)
Sgt R.C. Paterson F/E (Killed)
F/Sgt J.P. Nugent NAV (Killed)
F/Sgt W.D. Bickle W/AG (Killed)
Sgt A.W. Buck A/G (Killed)
F/Sgt G.J. Green B/A (Killed)
F/Sgt E. Ewan A/G (Killed)
Offenbach an der Queich.............................Ottersheim bei Landau
A=Position of crash site with memorial nearby
B=Location where F/Sgt Green was found with memorial nearby
The crew memorial
The memorial to Sgt G J Green
There is a memorial tree planted at East Kirkby to remember this crew.