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| Keywords: 463 Squadron RAAF Lancaster aircrew Waddington Nov 1944 AWM P07841.009.jpg AWM caption United Kingdom England Lincolnshire Waddington Group portrait of the crew of Lancaster PB290 JO-K at RAF Base Waddington <br> Identified left to right; 434484 Flying Officer FO Gwynne Thomas RAAF 429369 FO Richard Rodney 'Rod' Young RAAF 433194 FO Alan Campbell Bond RAAF 431448 Flight Sergeant Flt Sgt Richard Dick Thurston Hawthorn RAAF Sgt Phillip J Gwynne RAF 433549 Flt Sgt Joslyn Len Lavarre Henderson RAAF 419821 FO Henry Stanley Mack MacMeikan RAAF Less than twenty days after this photograph was taken the crew took off from RAF Waddington on the night of 6/7th December 1944 to bomb the marshalling yards at Giessen Germany Of the nineteen aircraft from the Squadron that took part in the raid only PB290 failed to return and its crew were posted as lost on operations Following the war it was later established that the aircraft crashed into woods about 3km north-east of Giessen At the time of the crash the remains of FO Young FO MacMeikan Flt Sgt Hawthorn and Sgt Gwynne were recovered and buried in Giessen local cemetery Later they were reinterred in the Hanover War Cemetery In 2004 German historians found part of the Lancaster's wreckage and the remains of FO Bond FO Thomas and Flt Sgt Henderson in a forest near Giessen Family members of the crew joined representatives from the RAAF and the Australian Embassy in Berlin for a military funeral service for the remaining crewmembers on 13 September 2005 P07841 009 1944-11-21 not stated Copyright expired - public domain PD-AustraliaGov No 463 Squadron RAAF RAF Waddington Avro Lancaster aircrew Avro Lancaster in Australian service World War II people of the Royal Australian Air Force World War II forces of Australia in the United Kingdom | ||||
