W4767 – Stirling or Lancaster ?

Thanks for the list !

The report with picture are now on my website !

Nils

Slight correction to my first post, the date of W4767s loss was the night of the 17th/18th January 1943. The crew were P/O J Woolford RCAF, Sgts K E Slade, J H Worrow, L Noble, F B Andrews, R Waudby and G McM Hair. All are buried in the War Cemetery, Kiel. P/O Woolford came from Charleston, Illinois.

Geoff

Report of a Newpaper from Kiel:
“How yesterday reported, was during the fly over the Gaugebiet Schleswig-Holstein through british aircrafts 18 Bomber, partly with four engines, shot down. Once of this shoot down a/c crashed, from the defence hit, in the urban area, torn up a roof of a Church and smashed of a place in thousand parts. From the crew found four men the dead.”

Thanks for informations !
I have a picture from a crashed a/c in the near of a church in Kiel. Will look if it from this date…
Have a list of three found killed crewmember on this date. do you have a member list of this a/c from 61 sqdn.?

Nils

Bomber Command Losses has it as a Lancaster I (QR-J) of 61 sqn, lost on the night of 16/17 January 1943, with all seven crew killed, crashing at 22.06 after being hit by flak, in the Hohenzollernplatz, behind the Lutherian Church, Kiel.

The Air-Britain W series book also has it as a Lanc, as does Bruce Robertson’s ‘British military aircraft serials’

There is a batch of Stirling Is W7426 to W7639 so presumably the Stirling ref is an error for one of these.

Geoff.