Date:	Tuesday 25 July 1944
Time:	02:35 claim
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	514 Sqn RAF
Registration:	PB185
MSN:	JI-F2
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Trier (Rheinland-Pfalz) -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Waterbeach, Cambridge
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Waterbeach at 21:45 hrs for an operation against Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg.

Is believed to have crashed 02:30 in the general vicinity of Trier. It seems that at the time, Sgt Stafford was identified, but with other members of the crew he is now listed on the Panels of the Runnymede Memorial. At 37 Sgt Brown was above the average age of Bomber Command aircrew.
Crew
Fg Off T J Middleton (KIA)
Sgt R W Stafford (KIA)
Fg Off F K Beers RCAF (KIA)
Fg Off A G Burgess (KIA)
Flt Sgt T D Jones (KIA)
Sgt C Brown (KIA)
Sgt A B E Booth (KIA)

*Hptm Paul Zorner (St.III./NJG5) claimed a Lancaster NW of Strasbourg at 02:35. This would be his 57th kill.

Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 350.
*Luftwaffe Night Fighters Combat Claims 1939-1945.
Aircrew Remembered: Losses and Incidents database

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