Unit: 106 Squadron
Aircraft: Lancaster
Code: ND585-ZN-J
Base: Metheringham
Mission: Nürenberg
Crew officer: Incident: Shot down by German fighter
Location: (Prov. Namur)
Facts
Operation: Nurnberg. Take off 22.15 Metheringham.
Drifted well north of track, while making for base, and believed shot down by a night-fighter, crashing at the Begian village of Villers-Deux-Eglises (Namur, Belgium), 4 km WSW of Philippeville.