PA169 PO-S

Avro Lancaster I

Code lettersPO-S
SquadronNo. 467 Squadron (RAAF)
MarkI
FateLost on operations
Lost1 January 1945
A Avro Lancaster (representative type, not this airframe)
Representative photo of a Avro Lancaster — not this individual aircraft.
ⓘ licence & creditCpl Phil Major ABIPP / OGL v1.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Britain_Memorial_flight_Avro_Lancaster_(cropped).jpg

Notes

Hit by flak nearing the aiming point during the daylight attack on the Dortmund-Ems Canal at Ladbergen on 1 January 1945, but pressed on and bombed at 1117 from 11,700 ft. Hit again in a port fuel tank; both port engines eventually failed, and the crew nursed the Lancaster back over Allied territory before abandoning it to crash near Venray. All seven survived.

Operations flown

Operation Dortmund–Ems Canal (1 January 1945) — Failed to return

Crew: L E Paterson (Bomb aimer) · E Wilson (Flight engineer) · L G Court (Mid-upper gunner) · S H Nelson (Navigator) · M G Bache (Pilot) · J M Jay (Rear gunner) · C J Dreger (Wireless operator)