[RossGmann]

PLEASE DISREGARD PREVIOUS MESSAGE RE TOM TAYLOR, HE WAS ON ANOTHER AIRCRAFT

460 SQUADRON RAAF, WORLD WAR 2 FATALITIES

Date of Death: 30 May 1943
Source:
AWM 64 (1/293); AWM 64 (1/294); AWM 237 (63)
NAA: A705, 166/6/101
Aircraft Type:
Lancaster
Serial number:
ED 759
Radio call sign:
AR – X
Unit:
460 Sqn RAAF

Summary:

Lancaster ED 759 took off from RAF Binbrook on the night of 29/30 May 1943 to attack Wuppertal, Germany. Bomb Load was 1 x 4000lb bomb and 48 x 30lb, 6600 x 4lb incendiaries. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. Twelve aircraft from the squadron took part in the raid.
Crew:
RAAF 413924 Flt Sgt Bull, H E Captain (Pilot)
RAF Sgt Sherratt, F C (Navigator)
RAF Sgt Munday, D R (Air Bomber)
RAF Sgt Willars, P C (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
RAF Sgt Powis, G G (Flight Engineer)
RAF Sgt Anderson, R M (Air Gunner)
RAF Sgt Meech, A W G (Air Gunner)
Post war it was established that the aircraft crashed at Remscheld-Luttring-Hausen and all the crew were killed. Flt Sgt Bull is interred in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany.

Kind regards

Ross