Date:	Tuesday 15 April 1941
Time:
Type:	Westland Lysander Mk I
Owner/operator:	208 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L4690
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Kazaklar -   Greece
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Shot down by Bf.109s.
Crew:
P/O J.W. STEWART (pilot) RAF - injured?.
F/Sgt (522253) Arthur Graham JAMES (AG) RAF - killed.

On 15 April 1941, F/O DB Waymark in L4719 was one of two 208 Squadron Lysanders at Larissa, about to evacuate the two surviving members of 211 Squadron's disastrous Easter Sunday raid who had succeeded in regaining their own lines after being shot down. Both Lysanders were attacked by Messerschmitts shortly after taking off. P/O JW Stewart in L4690 with Flt/Sgt AG James as passenger was shot down almost at once: only Stewart survived. Waymark in L4719 took F/O AC Godfrey as his passenger and rear gunner pro-tem. Under attack by five Me 109s, Godfrey retaliated with the rear-gunner's VGO. Losing two fingers under fire, he continued to shoot with his left hand until the aircraft crashed. Now with an injured leg as well, Godfrey escaped the aircraft and subsequent ground strafing with Wymark's help. Eventually the two were evacuated by car and thence by air to Athens. Accounts of these events place them variously as near Larissa or near Kazaklar to the North.

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
20-Mar-2008 23:42	JINX	Added
20-Mar-2008 23:44	JINX	Updated
20-Mar-2008 23:45	JINX	Updated
08-Jun-2008 23:21	Anon.	Updated
03-Jun-2015 08:28	Yelush	Updated [Operator, Phase, Narrative]