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DV168

Avro 683 Lancaster I/III

Built by:

Metropolitan-Vickers

Contract:

B.69275/40

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PH

F

DV168

Works Order:

GO.122195

Delivered:

1943-05-31

Struck Off:

1943-08-30

Shot down

Fate:

Memorial:
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Story

Served with 12 Sqn. Believed shot down by Uffz Gunter Lierch (IV./NJG3), crashing off the west coast of Denmark.

Last Flight Details (if lost)

Home Base:

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Peenemunde

Mission:

12

Squadron:

Role

Pilot

Flt Eng

Nav

Bomb Aimer

WOp/AG

Air Gunner

Air Gunner

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Rank

S/L

Sgt

F/O

P/O

P

P/O

Sgt

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Name

Service No.

Fate

Service

IBCC Link

Memorial

FB

S

GR

CWA

JFB

PH

JFB

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Slade
Chapman
Carpenter
Manning
MacIntyre
Phillips
Myers

43416

Killed

RAF

930738

Killed

RAFVR

142131

Killed

RAFVR

148279

Killed

RAFVR

148279

Killed

RAFVR

409451

Killed

RAAF

1533554

Killed

RAFVR

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Movements
Serial
Date
Unit
Notes
DV168
1943-05-31
AV Roe
DV168
1943-06-14
12 Sqn
DV168
1943-08-18
Cat E
Missions Flown
Serial
Date
Sqn
Code
Base
Mission
T/O
Land
DV168
1943-06-21
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Krefeld
0010
0418
DV168
1943-06-22
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Mulheim
2313
0302
DV168
1943-06-24
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Wuppertal
2306
0331
DV168
1943-06-25
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Gelsenkirchen
2320
0354
DV168
1943-06-27
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Cologne
2343
0410
DV168
1943-07-08
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Cologne
2221
0358
DV168
1943-07-09
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Gelsenkirchen
2259
0450
DV168
1943-07-12
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Turin
2217
1025
DV168
1943-07-24
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Hamburg
2217
0332
DV168
1943-07-25
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Essen
2201
0214
DV168
1943-07-27
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Hamburg
2228
0357
DV168
1943-07-29
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Hamburg
2212
0306

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