ME321 AA-N

Avro Lancaster III

Code letters	AA-N
Squadron	No. 75 Squadron (New Zealand)
Mark	III
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

Lost attacking the railway yards at Vohwinkel on 1 January 1945; crashed near Maastricht with the loss of the entire crew. The pilot, W/O Newton, is believed to have been on his fiftieth operational sortie.

Operations flown

Operation Vohwinkel (1 January 1945) — Failed to return

Crew: J S Hoskins (Bomb aimer) · H Sansome (Flight engineer) · M Brennan (Mid-upper gunner) · Richard Justin Aitchison (Navigator) · E J Newton (Pilot) · L J Cooke (Rear gunner) · V J Clark (Wireless operator)