Hi,
I realise that his is a very old posting on Lancaster ED749, which I happened across it by chance last week. I was amazed to see a reference to my father D. Harkin who is Irish, but was posted to 300 Polish Squadron during the war. According to the records provided my father was on ED749s first operation with 300 Squadron. I had a look at his log book and indeed there is an entry for an operation to Caen on 7th July 1944. On the 24th July he was shot down on an operation to Stuttgart, the entire crew survived. He spent the rest of the war as POW in Stalag Luft 1. I showed this information to my father and while he can’t provide any details about the final fate of this aircraft, he was delighted to see it and in particular the comment about the ‘very accurate bombing’.
Thanks to all.