Description
On the evening of Saturday August 12th 1944 an Avro Lancaster (serial number LM658) took off from it's base at RAF Waltham near Grimsby, Lincolnshire in Eastern England bearing the squadron code HW-W of RAF 100 Squadron, Bomber Command (1 group) as part of an airborne offensive of 379 heavy bombers heading for heart of the Nazi Reich. However, as dawn broke on Sunday morning only six of the seven 100 Squadron Lancs that took off the previous evening were to return to Waltham, LM658 and her crew were posted as missing
Keywords
"Avro, Lancaster, LM658, Hood, RAF Waltham, Harold Paston-Williams, Christopher Holland, Gerald Hood, Benjamin Ramsden, John Downie, Laurence Roy Watts, Robert Stanley Williams, B.A. David, second dickie, Hardenberg, Almelo, Alan Barrow, 100 Squadron, RAF, Royal Air Force, Bomber Command