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Aircraftsman 1st Class

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Looking for some help researching Lancasters.
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My grandfather  F/L Kenneth E Lussier DFC started as a tail gunner then pilot in Lancaster's.

There are two specific ones I am trying to find more info on.

1. Lancaster II DS845 ditched near Abbeville, France 25/26 Feb 1944 while returning from bombing run in Augsburg, Germany.

2. Lancaster Mk.10MP KB893 C/N 37194 Crashed in Summerside, PEI 25 Apr 1952 While on a fuel consumption training run.

 

Id love to find photos of either of these aircraft if they exist.

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Richard Rowntree



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Aircraftsman 1st Class

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Richard I found this of DS-845 on the internet.

 



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Tony Doyle

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I have a shot of the crashed Lancaster KB893 at Summerside taken by a friend who was in the RAF training there. Contact me on anthony.doyle@virgin.net

 

 



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I have a shot of the crashed Lancaster KB893 at Summerside taken by a friend who was in the RAF training there. Contact me on anthony.doyle@virgin.net

 

 



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Joss Leclercq

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Hello from France

I'm researching WW2 air warfare in my area, northern France (Nord and Pas-de-Calais départements).

I'm trying to identify a bomber which crashed near Boulogne-sur-Mer in the morning of 25 February 1944. I have no clue whether it's a R.A.F. or U.S.A.A.F. machine, neither what happened to the crew, as the Germans forbade access to the crash site area to the French population and authorities.

I'm checking various possibilities, and one could have been Lancaster II DS845, from online sources. But it appears this Lancaster took off at 21:14 on the 25th, so can't be "my" bomber.

I'm interested to have confirmation that DS845 was ditched, from Richard's statement in post #1.

I have the appendix of his evasion report from the National Archives in Kew, London, if Richard is interested in a copy. I'm sorry I don't have the main evasion reports for Barnlund and Lussier, while I'm quite sure I have seen them at Kew. But as it was out of my research area, I didn't copy them.

You may contact me at JossLeclercq AT orange DOT fr   (replace by the obvious)

Joss

PS : In 2004, I organised a memorial plaque for the F.T.S. BRICE crew, from No. 408 Squadron, lost near Cambrai during the night 12/13th June 1944.

 

 



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Presson wrote:

Richard I found this of DS-845 on the internet.

 


 Not available anymore. 

 

Any my other ideas on where it was?



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