Date:	Thursday 8 February 1945
Time:	00:08 LT
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	50 Sqn RAF
Registration:	PD316
MSN:	VN-A
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Ladbergen area (Nordrhein-Westfalen) -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Skellingthrope
Destination airport:	RAF Skellingthorpe

Narrative:
Takeoff at 20:59 hrs for a bombing operation against the Dortmund-Ems canal at Ladbergen.

Hit by Hauptmann Gerhard Raht of Stab I./NJG 2, flying Ju 88 G-6 4R+AB from Twente airfield in the Netherlands.

Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant John Boyle RAFVR 184181 (NCO:1425196 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 17 October, 1944) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Pilot Officer Gerald Ansell RAFVR 198616 (NCO:1052047 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 24 July, 1945) [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant Stanley Hoggett RAFVR 1569216 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant H R Hand RAF [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Deryck Grenville Rodwell RAFVR 1333583 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant R G Turner RAF [PoW]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Peter Richard Jones RAFVR 1808439 [Killed]

Those who perished rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1945
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1945 Page 69
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/boyle-john.html-john.html
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

12 September 1944

PD294

50 Sqn RAF

4

3 km North West of Lampertheim

w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
29-Aug-2013 16:46	JINX	Added
25-May-2016 15:15	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
31-Oct-2018 14:33	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
28-Oct-2019 15:20	Uli Elch	Updated [Operator, Location]
01-Nov-2019 20:02	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator]
30-Jun-2022 08:54	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]
07-Feb-2024 07:56	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]