Squadron Aircraft: Summary Information

Summary

Listed below is the information available for this aircraft which served in 550 Squadron.

Aircraft Details: The column headers should be fairly self-explanatory. The final column (Web links) contains, where given, links to other items on this web-site or indeed to external sources where further information or photographs, etc can be found.

Associated Aircrew: This is the list of servicemen known to have flown on this aircraft at some time or other, it is not a particular crew (that can be found on other lists available on the site such as the crew shown on a specific operation, etc).

Definitions of the abbreviations used are available: here.

In compiling these lists particular thanks are due, as listed below, to sites without which it would have been next to impossible to put the information together. Many thanks to the providers of these pages whose work is gratefully acknowledged.

URI Description Other Information
https://www.lancasterbombers.net/form-78-aircraft-movement-cards/ Lancaster movement cards.
The site which can be searched for specific aircraft numbers or ranges of numbers.
An examples of use includes:
http://lancasterbombersinfo.ipage.com/Data/Form-78s/Lancaster/NG392-NG503/mobile/index.html:
Movement cards in the range NG392-NG503 ("flick" through the pages to the service number you seek).

https://www.lancasterbombers.net/abbreviations-form-78/
Abbreviations used on movement cards.
http://www.lancaster-archive.com/ For anyone wishing to locate further Lancaster histories, or to trace Lancaster losses for a raid. Website produced by Lancaster and Manchester Bomber Historian who can be reached on email at: Larry Wright
http://www.lostbombers.co.uk/ In the cases of bombers that Failed to Return (FTR) this site has been invaluable. The web-site, however, appears to have gone offline at some point in time (unclear when).

Aircraft Details

Aircraft Details Associated Aircrew
Id Service Number Name No. of Ops BQ-Code Other Information Web Links Name
S DV309 - - BQ-S Crashed Schobbroek 21/22 May 1944.
One of three 550 Sqdn lancasters lost on this operation. See: LL851, LM319.
See Westerlo memorial page (link to original web-site)

This aircraft is listed as the 67th victim, of Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer a German Luftwaffe night fighter pilot (known as "The Night Ghost Of St. Trond") and the highest scoring night fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare.
Combat reports list it as downed: 22.5.1944 at 01:51, 3km NW Tongerooge
This is one of two 550 aircraft believed downed this night-figher pilot (see also ME428).
/original-site-archive/memwesterloo.htm

/pages/550-sqdn-westerlo-commemorations.php

http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/33974/Memorial--Crash-Lancaster-Mk-I-DV309-BQ-S.htm

http://www.luftwaffe.cz/schnaufer.html

P/O W N H Brawn
P/O N S Rogers
Sgt C Tattersall
Sgt W Johnstone
Sgt W R Williams
Sgt H Stollar
Sgt A Hatfield
Sgt J L Powell
Sgt P L Colman
P/O G W Hinde
Sgt T L J Whittick
Sgt D Hughes
F/Sgt C C Sharland
Sgt D R M Davies
Sgt E C Beacham
Sgt W A J Young
P/O R A Jones
Sgt S G Conrath
F/O A H Crich
F/O D J Bremner
Sgt E K C Smith
Sgt J C Johnson
Sgt W C T Freeman
Sgt H J Pearce
F/O H T A Evans
Sgt N C Jenkins
F/Sgt D Salmon
F/Sgt M E Mills
Sgt J H Marshall
Sgt R H Paxton
W/O C A Sowden
Sgt P Pindar
Sgt F E Dawson
Sgt R A Caley
Sgt W J Jones
Sgt A Fricker

This aircraft is one of the 550 Squadron aircraft that was lost on operations.
The details of those air-crew who lost their lives while on operations in this aircraft are listed on the 550 Squadron Roll of Honour, see: DV309.

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The details were last updated: 06 March 2024


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