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BJ651 JN-'M' The last
flight of
Wellington III bomber, BJ651, took off from Snaith in Yorkshire at 2035
on 24 August 1942 for a raid on Frankfurt. The aircraft was
attacked by Lt H-W Schnaufer of II/NJG1 and crashed at 2.54 about
1 km east of Loonbeek (north of
Huldenberg) in Belgium. All the
crew, who
died on Tuesday, 25th August 1942 were |
Sergeant
Eric Guy BOUND
1269297 Pilot
Sergeant
Ernest Frank CRONK
1377064
Flight
Sergeant Alan Robert LANE
1307388
W.Op/Air
Gnr
Aged 22
Son of John William
Lane and Hilda Mary Lane (nee Cowen), of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Husband of Evelyn
Margaret Lane.
Sergeant
Albert Charles JUKES
927655
Aged 20
Son of Albert
William
and Kate Lydia Jukes, of Margate.
Sergeant
Arthur THOMAS
1162157
W.Op/Air
Gnr
Aged 20
Son of William Henry
and Beatrice Nellie Thomas, of Evesham, Worcestershire.
| While searching for
info about
this crash I came across details of the previous Wellington III bomber
to have the same code number. This aircraft, Z1608, was shot down over the Netherlands by a Nightfighter on 16 June 1942. One of the 5 crew was killed - Flt Sgt J F Haley R/60003 RCAF, being buried at Haamstede (Zeeland), but after the war re-interred at Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery, Holland. |