ME317

Lancaster Mk III

Initial record to be updated when first event found

UL-C²

Change of Sqn Code based on Flight Record created

UL-C²

Change of Sqn Code based on Flight Record created

UL-C²

GELSENKIRCHEN (NORDSTERN)

Plt Off G.H. Paley

Nordstern synthetic oil plant Load: 1x 4,000lb ‘Cookie’, 6x 1,000lb, 6 or 7x 500lb bombs.

WANNE-EICKEL

Plt Off G.H. Paley

Synthetic Oil Plant Load: 1x 4,000lb ‘Cookie’, 16x 500lb bombs.

DORTMUND

Plt Off R.S. Bastick

Target: Hoesch Benzin GmbH synthetic oil plant. Damaged by flak. Bombed at 16,000 ft. Load: 1x 4000lb, 6x 1000lb, 6x 500lb bombs.

DUREN

Fg Off R.S. Bastick

Target: Enemy positions & lines of communication. Damaged by light flak. Flown in support of American 1st & 9th Armies. Bombed at 10,000ft. Load: 1x 4000lb, 6x 1000lb, 7x 500lb bombs.

ASCHAFFENBURG

Fg Off R.S. Bastick

Target: Marshalling yards. Bombed at 12,500 ft. Load: 1x 4000lb, 16x 500lb bombs.

KARLSRUHE

Fg Off H.F. Benson

Target: Built-up area. Load: 1x 4000lb 'cookie', 14x No.14 incendiary clusters, and 120x 4lb incendiaries.

ULM

Fg Off O.R. Herbert

Target: Marshalling yards, and Magirius-Deutz and the Kassbohrer lorry factories

NUREMBURG

Fg Off O.R. Herbert

Target: Marshalling yards and built-up area.

MUNICH

Fg Off I.R. Carter

Target: Industrial and transport area Load: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’, 1492x 4lb incendiaries

ZEITZ

Fg Off C.J. Rouse

Braunkohle-Benzin synthetic oil plant

STUTTGART (ZUFFENHAUSEN )

Fg Off I.R. Carter

Targets: Hirth aero-engine factory & Boash ignition works Load: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’ and 12x 500lb bombs. (First force attacked the railyards at Kornwestheim)

LUDWIGSHAFEN

Fg Off C.T. Dalziel

Marshalling yards, factories & troop positions. (Mannheim) Load: All aircraft: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’ and 1620x 4lb incendiaries

WIESBADEN

Fg Off C.T. Dalziel

Built-up Area (where large amounts of troops were resting) Load: All aircraft: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’, 1604x 4lb incendiaries Took off late and could not catch main force. Instructed to abort at 50°40N 04°00E. 4000lb ‘Cookie’ jettisoned.

POLITZ

Fg Off C.T. Dalziel

IG Farben synthetic oil plant 5333.5N 01444.5E Master Bomber: Snodgrass 1 & 2 MF: Press On

PFORZHEIM

Fg Off C.J. Rouse

Operation THUNDERCLAP - Built-up area 4852N 00842E Ball bearing factory Master Bomber : Blacktie 1,2 & 3 MF: Wastepipe

KASSEL

Fg Off I.R. Carter

Built-Up Area Load: 1x 4000lb ‘cookie’ and 1470x 4lb incendiaries.

ESSEN

Fg Off I.R. Carter

Built-up area - Flown in support of advancing Allied ground forces Load: 1x 4000lb ‘cookie’, 16x 500lb bombs

MISBURG

Flt Sgt P.F. Sattler

Deurag oil refinery Load: All aircraft: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’ and 1320x 4lb incendiaries.

NUREMBURG

Flt Sgt P.F. Sattler

Built-up area Load: All aircraft: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’ and 1470x 4lb incendiaries. Failed to return. Flt Sgt P F Sattler RAAF PoW Sgt W E A Jeffery killed Fg Off N Whiteley PoW Sgt P F Garner PoW Sgt W Walker killed Sgt K G Durston killed Sgt D F Wood killed Nuremburg; lost in ME317 UL-C2, aged 20 Shot down probably by a Bf-110 flown by Maj Herbert Lutje of Stab NJG-6 at 2133 and 15,000 ft, some 30 km SSW Nuremburg, or by a Ju-88 flown by Oblt Erich Jung of 5/NJG2 (one of eight ‘Anschluss’ that night) in the Ansbach area at 15,000 ft, tbc. 4 crew killed, 3 taken PoW. The aircraft was attacked from below and the incendiaries caught fire. Losing control, the skipper ordered the crew to abandon the Lancaster. He reported that Jeffery had baled out, but he was not seen again. His precise fate not known but is described as ‘killed in action’ on 17 Mar 45. The captured Nav (Garner) was shown Jeffery’s ID card by the Germans, but never saw him. He is commemorated at Runnymede, Panel 271.

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