NF975

Lancaster Mk. I

Initial record to be updated when first event found

UL-J²

AIR TEST

Sqn Ldr B.A. Templeman-Rooke

Target: Air test via Elsham, Blyton, Finningley and back to Elsham. In Templeman-Rooke’s logbook but not Ireland’s. P2: Fg Offs W R Ireland & V Moss

EINDHOVEN

Fg Off J.R. Stedman

Target: Luftwaffe airfield. No.2 port tank hit by flak; lost 300 gallons of fuel. Load: 13 x 1000lb, 4 x 500lb bombs One aircraft (unidentified) diverted due weather

LE HAVRE

Plt Off N. Layden

Enemy strongpoints to N of the Town. 10 Aircraft allocated Aiming Point 12, 5 aircraft allocated Aiming Point 13 Master Bomber instructed crews who had not bombed to return with their bombs due to increasing low cloud cover.

CAP GRIS-NEZ

Fg Off W.H. Hepburn

6” coastal gun battery Load: 13x 1000lb, 4x 500lb bombs

CALAIS

Plt Off K.A. Moore

Target: Enemy strongpoints between the marshalling yards and the Canal de Calais. Hammond diary: “Bad show from start to finish. 600 of us orbited over Channel before being called in. Defences were waiting and we received the full treatment. Bombing run made at 2000 ft, but we were hit very badly on the run in. Heard the shells exploding outside the kite and actually smelled the cordite fumes! Starboard inner blown off wing and fuel leads were on fire. Perspex nose was holed but didn’t shatter. My head was inside it!

CALAIS

Plt Off G.C. Clewley

Target: Military installations to the south-east of the town. Load: 13x 1000lb, 4x 500lb bombs. The target was obscured by cloud so the Master Bomber ordered crews to return to base with their bombs.

DUREN

Fg Off N. Layden

Enemy positions & lines of communication. Flown in close support of the American 1st & 9th Armies. On return FIDO in operation to assist in landing in poor visibility. Load: 1x 4000lb, 6x 1000lb, 7 or 6x 500lb bombs

ASCHAFFENBURG

Fg Off O.R. Herbert

Target: Marshalling yards, The Master Bombers' callsigns were Chatham 1 & Chatham 2

FREIBURG

Fg Off H.F. Benson

Target: Troop concentrations in the built-up area. Flown in support of the French 1st Army. Load: 1x 4000lb 'cookie', 5x 1000lb and 6x 500lb bombs.

BONN

Fg Off C.J. Rouse

Target: Marshalling yards

SCHOLVEN / BUER

Fg Off R.S. Bastick

Target: Hydeierwerke Scholven synthetic oil refinery. Load: 1x 4000lb, 16x 500lb bombs.

NUREMBURG

Fg Off C.T. Dalziel

Marshalling Yards & Built-up Area Load: C2, D2, J2, L2, O2, X2, Z2: 1x 4000lb, 1,598x 4lb incendiaries A2, F2, G2, H2, K2, Q2, V2, W2, Y2: 1x4000lb, 14x 500 R2: 1x 4000lb, 4x 1000lb, 5x 500lb

ROYAN

Fg Off R.S. Bastick

Enemy garrison & supply depot. Flown in support of the Free French forces besieging the town. Load: 1x 4000lb, 16x 500lb bombs.

MUNICH

Fg Off C.J. Rouse

Target: Built-up area.

MERSEBURG / LEUNA

Fg Off R.S. Bastick

Target: IG Farbenindustrie synthetic oil refinery. Load: 1x 4000lb ‘cookie’, 12x 500lb bombs

ZEITZ - TROGLITZ

Fg Off R.S. Bastick

Target: Braunkohle-Benzin synthetic oil plant (low grade MT fuel). Load: 1x 4000lb 'cookie', 12x 500lb bombs.

DUISBERG

Fg Off R.S. Bastick

Target: Steelwork coking ovens & rolling mills in the Hamborn area of the city and a benzol plant in Bruckhausen. Load: 1x 4000lb 'cookie', 16x 500lb bombs

LUDWIGSHAFEN

Fg Off R.S. Bastick

Target: Marshalling yards, factories and enemy troop positions. Load: 1x 4000lb 'cookie', 1620x 4lb incendiaries

BOTTROP

Fg Off R.S. Bastick

Target: Prosper coking plant & benzol refinery. Load: 1x 4000lb 'cookie', 16x 500lb bombs

POLITZ

Fg Off C.J. Rouse

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

DRESDEN

Fg Off B.H. O'Neill

Operation THUNDERCLAP. Target: Built-up area. Load: 1x 2000lb, 1484x 4lb incendiaries. Described by O'Neill as 'Long tiresome trip. ASI froze up in cloud. Short of petrol'.

DORTMUND

Fg Off R.S. Bastick

Target: Rhenania Ossag oil refinery, in the Reisholz district of the city. Load: 1x 2000lb, 2100x 4lb incendiaries. The fate of NF975 may never be known, as the aircraft and her crew disappeared with out trace, nothing being heard from the crew after take-off from Fiskerton at 2141. The crew are commemorated at the Runnymede Memorial, on Panels 266, 270, 276, 277 and 284.

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