Lancaster 1 ME595 QR-Y 61Sqn.

Thanks for the reply. On this night Braunschweig received the worst bombing of the war, the city centre suffering 90% destruction in the ensuing firestorm. Interesting fact too is the pilot who was F/O Norman Hoad on 14/15.10.44 who had an interesting career finishing in 1978 as Air Vice-Marshall. He was a well known and yery good artist. He has produced many examples of aircraft and the like over the years. Unfortunately he died in 2014. Word has it that ME595 had a very hard belly landing into a moor giving the 2 boys the opportunity to relieve the plane of its bombaiming compass and set of goggles and who knows what else before it sank. What happened to Sgt. G. P Boyd who died, was he still on the plane? Thanks for all your replies Gerald.

Thanks to you all.
Gerald