ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 308442
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| Date: | Monday 5 March 1945 |
| Time: | 21:49 |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 170 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ME320 |
| MSN: | TC-L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Chemnitz -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Hemswell |
| Chemnitz |
Aircraft took off at 17h00 on a bombing mission to Chemnitz Germany. Lost over target killing the entire crew. Only the body of the Wireless Op/Air Gunner WO JJ McNally (RAAF) was ever properly identified and buried in the Berlin military cemetery. The bodies of the other crew members are believed to be buried in one of the mass graves in Chemnitz proper.
Pilot: 116637 F/L Edward Ross Thornton (RAFVR)
Navigator: J/40810 F/O Wilfred Earl Weber (RCAF)
Bomb AImer: J/40347 F/O Wilbert Alexander Brydon (RCAF)
Flight Engineer: 3010599 Sgt John Percival Plant (RAFVR)
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: 412647 WO1 John Joseph McNally (RAAF)
Air Gunner: 1901246 Sgt Cecil Alexander Ebbs (RAFVR)
Air Gunner: 1899394 Sgt Donald Wager (RAFVR)
Sources:
170 Sqn wartime archives from The National Archives UK
https://aviationmuseumwa.org.au/afcraaf-roll/mcnally-john-joseph-412647/
Personnel records of both RCAF crew members containing the loss report (attached as photo)
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=me320&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=ME320
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1530730
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1531157
Images:
170 Sqn Loss report for this aircraft
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