Thanks everyone for your insights and input. I originally asked the question because the infomation on the card I have didn’t make sense and thanks to your help the actual route was discovered. Like Creaking Door my husband plotted out the route last night and they were certainly slightly off route for whatever reason.

I just looked at a book I have and I can tell you that Von Bonnin shot down a Halifax at N Prum at 02.20, then a second Halifax at S.E. Darmstadt at 02.42 before shooting down my uncle’s lancaster 3 minutes later at 12km S Darmstadt.

Von Bonnin was flying west to east and perhaps the lancaster just happened to be there at the wrong time unfortunately. As Danny says hopefully his records will reveal something of the truth.

Best wishes
Linda.

This is quite odd because as you say these are the details for a Halifax of 35 sqn which was lost on the same night! I did originally think it read 35sq but then decided this actually meant something else. The lancaster is of course JB 221 as you state and was the only lancaster of 97 sqn not to return on that op. Do you think it is a manual error that this handwritten card has the details of the wrong type of plane in the route box when everything else refers to the correct crew?

This means that the route is SEE ie. South East East??

Can anyone with access to records check where 35 sqn was flying from and what route they or any other planes took on that night. (25/26 Nov. 1943)

A puzzled Linda.