Avro Lancaster III (ED974 OL-Y) on a mission to Berlin on 1944-01-21
On Thursday, 20 January 1944, (a part of) the aircraft of the 83 squadron (RAF), took off for a mission to Berlin in Germany from a station (airfield) in or near Wyton on Ops to Berlin and due to enemy action crashed in the target area.
One of the crew members was Flight Sergeant A W Coote. He departed for his mission at 16:03.
He flew with a Avro Lancaster (type III, with serial ED974 and code OL-Y). His mission and of the other crew members was planned for Friday, 21 January 1944.
The crew:
Pilot Flying Officer Glen Irvin Ransom RCAF Service Number: J/18141
Navigator Sergeant G S A Mackinnon Service Number: 1178824 Prisoner of War: POW No. 926 Stalag 357 Kopernikus.
Navigator Flight Sergeant Cyril Fred Plumb RAF V R Service Number: 1575092
Bomb Aimer Flight Lieutenant Frederick Thomas West RAF V R Service Number: 1335412
Wireless Op / Air Gunner Flight Sergeant Arthur William Coote Service Number: 1295109
Wireless Op / Air Gunner Sergeant Paul Vernon de Villiers Vickers Service Number: 710145
Air Gunner Flight Sergeant Alfred Edwin Millard DFM. Service Number: 1314400
Left to right: Alfred Edwin Millard, Frederick Thomas West, Irvin Ransom, Cyril Fred Plumb
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