Date:	Thursday 13 August 1942
Time:	02:41 claim
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	207 Sqn RAF
Registration:	R5760
MSN:	EM-Y
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing
Location:	Missing - North Sea off Zeeland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Bottesford, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Avro Lancaster B.Mk.I R5760/EM-Y, 207 Squadron, RAF: Delivered 26-7-1942. Missing on "ops" on night of 12/13-8-1942.

Takeoff at 22:46 hrs local time on 12-8-1942 for an operation to Mainz in Germany. Homeward-bound, at 02:41 hrs on 13-8-1942 and over Zeeland in the Netherlands, the aircraft was attacked by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Dr. Horst Patuschka of the 7./NJG 2, who was flying a Ju 88 C-6 from Gilze-Rijen airfield. All seven crew posted as MIA (Missing In Action), and later KIA (Killed In Action)

Crew of Lancaster R5760:
Sgt Thomas Fitzpatrick, RAF (Service Number: 1113188, aged 24)
Sgt John Walter Benn, RAAF (Service Number AUS404881. aged 32)
W/O David Wyndham Fry, RAF (Service Number: 905553, aged 21)
Sgt Henry Alfred Leslie Green, RAF(Service Number: 548497, aged 21)
Sgt Ronald Wiliam Edward Holmes, RAF (Service Number: 629489, aged 21)
Sgt Philip Redginald Kenny, RAF (Service Number: 1121314, aged 27)
Sgt Stanley Obbard, RAF (Service Number: 646412, aged 20)

As all seven crew have no known grave, they are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

1. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
2. http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=R5760
3. http://www.207squadron.rafinfo.org.uk/war_memorials.htm
4. https://www.lancaster-archive.com/lanc_unknowncrashsites.pdf
5. https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/lancaster/20530-R57601942-08-13.html
6. http://www.207squadron.rafinfo.org.uk/lancasters/207lancs_serial.htm
7. https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/107712/
8. 207 Squadron Record of Events (Operational Record Book) for August 1942: National Archives File AIR 27/1233/38 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8393110
9. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1270100/THOMAS%20FITZPATRICK/
10. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1083787/JOHN%20WALTER%20BENN/
11. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1270483/DAVID%20WYNDHAM%20FRY/
12. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1798763/HENRY%20ALFRED%20LESLIE%20GREEN/
13. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1800399/RONALD%20WILLIAM%20EDWARD%20HOLMES/
14. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1802618/PHILIP%20REGINALD%20KENNY/
15. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1803510/STANLEY%20OBBARD/

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

4 June 1942	R5847	207 Sqn RAF	7	near Zwiggelte, Drenthe		w/o
21 June 1942	R5860	207 Sqn RAF	0	North Sea, 90 miles E of Humber Estuary, North Yorkshire		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
15-May-2020 20:15	TigerTimon	Added
15-May-2020 20:16	TigerTimon	Updated [Source, Narrative]
17-Jun-2021 21:34	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative]
22-Jun-2022 09:38	Ron Averes	Updated [Damage]