NF984 VN

Avro Lancaster I

Code letters	VN
Squadron	No. 50 Squadron
Mark	I
Fate	Lost on operations
Lost	1 January 1945

A Avro Lancaster (representative type, not this airframe) — Representative photo of a Avro Lancaster — not this individual aircraft.
ⓘ licence & credit
Cpl 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 attacking the Mittelland Canal at Gravenhorst on 1 January 1945; the crew were ordered to bale out and one gunner did so before control was regained, the Lancaster making a forced landing at Juvincourt. All returned safely.

Operations flown

Operation Gravenhorst (1 January 1945) — crashed_on_return

Crew: D J Cruickshank (Bomb aimer) · F C Clark (Flight engineer) · J A Meadows (Mid-upper gunner) · L H E Redford (Navigator) · H H Skilling (Pilot) · E A McDonald (Rear gunner) · J W Booth (Wireless operator)