CREW MEMBER PROFILE

Surname:

BLACKMORE

First Name/s:

Geoffrey Livingstone

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Service No/s:

422388

Service:

RAAF

Branch:

Navigator

Awards:

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SERVICE RECORDS

Date

Event

Aircraft Flown

25 Nov 1943

Joined 576 Sqn at Elsham Wolds, Linconshire

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16 Dec 1943

576 Squadron FLYING RECORDS

Date

Aircraft

Code

Flight Details

T/O

Land

Flt Time

Crew

16 Dec 1943

DV342

UL-G2

BERLIN

1630

nk

nk

P1   Fg Off R.S. McAra
P2   
FE   Sgt J.L. Barrett
AB   Flt Sgt C. Chapman
NAV  Fg Off G.L. Blackmore RAAF
WOp  Sgt E. Russom
MUG  Flt Sgt M.G. Western RAAF
RG   Flt Sgt A.A. Harris RAAF

NOTES:

Failed to return. All crew killed. Shot down either by Hptm. Walter Borgers of Stab III./NJG5 (Aircrew Remembered), or by Fwbl. Herbert Herre of 3./JG 302 in a Bf109G (AviationSafety.net & Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943) (tbc) at 2008 hrs at 10,000 ft. Seen to burst into flames and explode over Lichtenberg, 10 km ENE Berlin. Pieces of the aircraft fell over a wide area; one of the engines fell in Rittergutstraße, where two of the crew (Chapman & Russell) were found; another engine fell in Verbindungsweg. A local policeman remembered that they were dressed in blue and each wore a white woollen sweater and escape boots. Both men wore parachute harnesses but there was no sign of the parachutes. The two bodies were taken to a central mortuary in Berlin and later buried in Doberlitz-Elsgrund German Military Cemetery, later interred at the Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery. No trace of the other crewmen was found.

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