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

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.