NG332 IL-D

Avro Lancaster I

Code letters	IL-D
Squadron	No. 115 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

Caught in American anti-aircraft fire near Namur while homebound from Vohwinkel on 1 January 1945; fell out of control at Emines. The entire crew of eight was killed. P/O Long, the navigator, was 19 — one of the youngest Australian navigators lost on bomber operations.

Operations flown

Operation Vohwinkel (1 January 1945) — Failed to return

Crew: J Booth (Bomb aimer) · Joseph Darcy Keith Sterling (Flight engineer) · Earl Donald Mathison (Mid-upper gunner) · Gordon David Long (Navigator) · A A F Mills (Pilot) · John William McLeod (Rear gunner) · C D Bassett (Second pilot) · J E W Fenwick (Wireless operator)