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Re: Help in tracing where a plane came down
Hi tanks for your responses.
Yes you are correct he was with the RAF 7 squadron. His name was Ronald Haywood. As I said before he was on a mission to Brunswick on the night of 14th/15th January 1944. I have read that their flightpath was intercepted and that the German fighters joined their stream and once they got over German soil they were shot down. It says that they were shot down roughly around Bremen????
The plane he was on was a Lancaster JA935 and all the crew were killed. There were 2 other planes from 7 squadron that night who also suffered JA905 and JA 398. I believe that all crew were killed apart from2 on one of the other planes who were atken prisoner of war.
The main problem I am having is that if you check the CWGC site, they show that Ronald and his crew were all "buried" in Hanover War cemetary. However, I have newspaper cutting sto say that he was classed as missing in action and if you check the lost lancaster archives, it states that the plane was shot down, all crew were killed but the crash site is unknown. His RAF number was 649966, hope this helps you in assisting me and I will patiently awit your responses as I am desperate to find out what happened to him.
If you need any more info just ask and I will help all I can.
Thank you all.
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