Lancaster EE138

The Difference of a Digit

Lancaster EE138, coded AR-E2, E for Easy, was flown by a crew from RAAF 460 Squadron. On the 4th of September 1943 while returning to RAF Binbrook Airbase after a raid on Berlin, EE138 was shot down by a Luftwaffe night fighter over Stadil, Denmark.

The crew of eight men in EE138 managed to steer the damaged Lancaster away from the village of Stadil before it crashed on the edge of the Vest Stadil Fjord. To this day, all but one of the men remain within the fuselage of their plane, buried in the soft ground of the once marshy perimeter of the fjord.

To read the full story see http://www.ee138.net/ which records much interesting detail about the plane, the crew, that last fateful flight and the project to commemorate the crew at the crash site in Denmark.

Of particular interest to 550 Squadron Association readers is the contribution by a cousin of one of the crew entitled "The Difference of a Digit" the story of Lancasters EE138 and EE139 (follow the link "The Plane").

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