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Lancaster W4159

Aircraft Model:	Avro Lancaster Mk. I

Manufacturer:	A.V. Roe (Manchester)

Identities:	W4159

Units:	No. 9 Squadron, RAF

Timeline

8 January 1943

Aircraft shot down by a night-fighter of II/NJG1 and crashed at Hackfort, 7 km SE of Zutphen, Holland.
Pilot: Sgt ALAN DICK FOOTE, RCAF R/102768 (Killed)
Crew: Sgt MAXWELL WILSON STEPHENSON, RAFVR 1088249 (Killed)
Crew: Sgt MUNRO McKENZIE, RAFVR 1334022 (Killed)
Crew: Sgt WILLIAM THOMAS McLENNAN, RAFVR 1551036 (Killed)
Crew: Sgt GEORGE MITCHELL, RAFVR 1062559 (Killed)
Crew: Sgt PATRICK GEORGE BROGAN, RAFVR 1393089 (Killed)
Crew: Sgt ROBERT WARDROP, RAFVR 1366325 (Killed)

References

Chorley, W.R. 2007 Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War - Volume 4: 1943. Hinckley: Midland Publishing.

Robertson, B. 1979 British Military Aircraft Serials, 1911-1979. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens Ltd.

Record updated on 15 April 2018.

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