Date:	Thursday 1 June 1944
Time:	01:53
Type:	Avro Lancaster
Owner/operator:	15 Sqn RAF
Registration:	LM121
MSN:	LS-C
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1 km west of Lormaison, Oise département -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk
Destination airport:	Trappes Railway Yards

Narrative:
The aircraft, of XV Squadron, had taken off from Mildenhall Air Force base in Suffolk as part of a force detailed to bomb the railway marshalling yards at Trappes on the outskirts of Paris as part of the Transportation Plan. It was intercepted near the turning point near Meru, north of Paris by Hptm. Fritz Söthe of 4./N.J.G.4 flying a Me110 and set on fire. The aircraft eventually crashed in a fireball on farm land belonging to M. Andre Postolle. This was Sothe's 1ft victory of the night, and 7th overall.

My personal research into my Uncle's life and loss using Squadron documents, the official loss card and German documents and night fighter claims. Also a number of French eye witness accounts.
Theo Boiten: Nachtjagd 1944 vol 3, p. 030.

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These are pieces of the starboard wing as dug up in 1994 when the A16 Amiens to Paris autoroute was cut through the Postolle land and crash site. The pictures were taken by M. Alain Ducreux and made available to me during a ceremony in Lormaison on 31st May 2003

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
21-May-2019 15:41	electricgeoff	Added
24-May-2019 13:23	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport]
14-Mar-2021 13:48	Anon.	Updated [Cn, Location, Destination airport]
19-May-2021 18:10	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source]