The 97 Squadron operating from Bourn ( Cambridgeshire ) deployed no less than 22 Lancasters that night.
Sixteen were sent to Frankfurt; they all returned. The other eight targeted Ludwigshafen. One of these was lost: the Lancaster OF-H ( JA923 ).
Where this aircraft crashed is not entirely clear.
British sources indicate that this Lanc was lost ten kilometers southeast of the German city of Limburg ( a claim by Oberleutnant Bierkenstock of the I./NJG 6 ) - but perhaps this is about the town of Limbourg near Verviers.
This may explain why the seven fallen people are now buried in Heverlee.
