Date:	Friday 28 April 1944
Time:	02:15 LT
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF
Registration:	ND759
MSN:	TL-R
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Lake Bodensee, Steckborn -   Switzerland
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Graveley
Destination airport:	RAF Graveley

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Graveley at 22:21 hrs for an operation to Friedrichshafen in Germany.
The aircraft was damaged by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Wilhelm Johnen of the 6./NJG 5, who had taken off from Hagenau airfield in Germany (modern France) at 00:48 hrs in a brand-new Bf 110 G-4/R3, coded C9+EN; ditched 02:30 hrs in the Bodensee. Sgt Brereton and Flt Sgt Foulks RAAF baled out, but the rest were unable to follow due to damage to their parachutes. WO Peter RAAF evaded immediately and it is believed the four who were interned later crossed from Switzerland into France. flt Sgt Foulks RAAF is buried in Switzerland at Vevey (St Martin's) Cemetery.

Crew:-
Pilot : Warrant Officer R G Peter DFC RAAF Aus/415272 [Evaded]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Alfred Stewart Brereton RAF 526004 [PoW]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Geoffrey Grant Foulkes RAAF Aus/420381 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Noel C W Davis RAAF Aus/413835 [Interned]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant H T Bartle RAAF Aus/415653 [Interned]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Irvine Graham RAF [Interned]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant D P Balmer RAF 1504649 [Interned]

http://www.warbird.ch/contento/Berichte/Abstürze/TG/BauerstelltBesatzungsmitglie/tabid/597/language/de-CH/Default.aspx
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft NA100 - NZ999, published 1992
Royal Air Force Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 196.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/peter-robert.html
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
Google Maps
https://warbird.ch/wb-events/bauer-stellt-besatzungsmitglieder/
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

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