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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:

Peenemunde

Mission:

12

Squadron:

Role

Pilot

Flt Eng

Nav

Bomb Aimer

WOp/AG

Air Gunner

Air Gunner

Rank

S/L

Sgt

F/O

P/O

P

P/O

Sgt

Name

Service No.

Fate

Service

IBCC Link

Memorial

FB

S

GR

CWA

JFB

PH

JFB

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

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
1943-08-02
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Hamburg
2304
0450
DV168
1943-08-09
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Mannheim
2238
0449
DV168
1943-08-10
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Nuremberg
2157
0520
DV168
1943-08-12
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Milan
2107
0557
DV168
1943-08-15
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Milan
2004
0437
DV168
1943-08-17
12
PH
F
Wickenby
Peenemunde
2118
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