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.
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)
There is a memorial tree planted at East Kirkby to remember this crew
During a visit to the 49Sqn Sgt's Mess, Air Cadet Cyril Hunter collected a range of signatures and arranged these with a set of wings presented to him by his 'host pilot' Sgt Edy.
The original (see below) is in the care of the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre
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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