Shot down by night fighter pilot Major Werner Streib of the Stab I./NJG 1, flying Bf 110 'G9+BB' from Venlo airfield. The Lancaster crashed into a moor in between Hoog Soeren and Assel.
106 Squadron
Departed: RAF Syerston
Target: Essen
Registration: R5680
Call Sign: ZN-T
Takeoff time: 16:30
Crew:
Pilot F/Lt. E.F.G. Healey DFC DFM 116140
Flight engineer Sgt. A. Dunbar 1002583
Navigator F/O. J.R. Pennington DFC 118726
Bomb aimer P/O. D.M. Crozier DFM J/16383
Wo ag F/O. M.H. Lumley 128373
Air gunner Sgt. F.J. Edwards 1331491
Air gunner Sgt. C.H. Jurgensen 1476365
Shot down by night fighter pilot Major Werner Streib of the Stab I./NJG 1, flying Bf 110 'G9+BB' from Venlo airfield. The Lancaster crashed into a moor in between Hoog Soeren and Assel.
106 Squadron
Departed: RAF Syerston
Target: Essen
Registration: R5680
Call Sign: ZN-T
Takeoff time: 16:30
Crew:
Pilot F/Lt. E.F.G. Healey DFC DFM 116140
Flight engineer Sgt. A. Dunbar 1002583
Navigator F/O. J.R. Pennington DFC 118726
Bomb aimer P/O. D.M. Crozier DFM J/16383
Wo ag F/O. M.H. Lumley 128373
Air gunner Sgt. F.J. Edwards 1331491
Air gunner Sgt. C.H. Jurgensen 1476365
Inscription
1331491 Sergeant
F.J. Edwards
Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
13th January 1943 Age 20
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF MY DEAR SON
HE RESTS IN PEACE
WE WILL MEET AGAIN. MOTHER
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1331491
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