Lancaster ID

[Stig Jarlevik]

Our friend Geoffrey Sinclair says the following

56 Lancasters lost on bombing operations to Stettin
13 on 20/21 April 1943
14 in 5/6 January 1944
5 on 16 August 1944
24 on 29 August 1944.

Between W R Chorley Bomber Command Losses and Theo Boiten Nachtjagd War
Diaries the causes are listed as 34 to fighters, 10 to flak, 2 ran out
of fuel, 1 crashed, 7 to enemy action, 2 to unknown causes.

All 10 listed flak losses were on the 20 April 1943 raid,
12 squadron Lancaster I ED326, lost without trace
12 squadron Lancaster III ED818, crashed Denmark
49 squadron Lancaster III ED620, crashed Denmark
57 squadron Lancaster I W4254, lost without trace
57 squadron Lancaster I ED770, crew buried at Poznan
61 squadron Lancaster I W4795, crashed Renik, 6 crew buried in Berlin.
100 squadron Lancaster III ED557, crashed Baltic
100 squadron Lancaster III ED709, crashed Denmark
460 squadron Lancaster I W4325, crashed Denmark
460 squadron Lancaster I W4956, crashed Baltic

The above using the early Boiten books which mostly cover fighter
claims, the later books expand to include flak claims. Bomber Command
reported 81 bombers missing on Stettin raids, 10 Halifax, 3 Hampden, 55
Lancaster, 4 Stirling, 3 Wellington, 6 Whitley, the raids not mentioned
above were 4/5 and 5/6 September, 14/15 and 26/27 October and 28/29
November 1940, 19/20 and 29/30 September 1941.

Geoffrey Sinclair