Guys,

Thanks for this – I’ll pass the links on and I’m sure they’ll be appeciated.

In the meantime, I had an email this morning giving me further information:-

“In the summer of 1944 John Murrie was in a Lancaster bomber, part of a 80 aircraft raid on V2 rocket sites north east of paris, using the Seine and the Eiffel Tower as a navigation marker. The raiders flew in from the west to east, flak was being fired at the aircraft on the run in to the target, John’s
Lancaster was hit badly and went into a steep dive while on fire. John managed to crawl out of the dinghy hatch on top and deploy his parachute. He survived, but all the other members of the crew, all Canadians, were killed on impact and are buried together in a small village cemetery north of paris.”

I know I’m asking a lot, since I don’t know the exact date, the squadron or aircraft number, but if any of you can fill in any of the blanks, that would be marvellous.