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| Keywords: Flying Officer Young of 463 Squadron RAAF AWM P07841.005.jpg AWM caption United Kingdom England Lincolnshire Waddington Portrait of 429369 Flying Officer FO Richard Rodney Rod Young 463 Sqn RAAF of West Maitland NSW at the controls of 'H' for How FO Young was piloting Lancaster PB290 JO-K when it took off from RAF Base 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 FO Young; Sergeant Phillip J Gwynne RAF Flight Engineer ; 419821 FO Henry Stanley Mack MacMeikan RAAF Bomb Aimer ; 434484 FO Gwynne Thomas RAAF Wireless Operator Air ; 431448 Flight Sergeant Flt Sgt Richard Dick Thurston Hawthorn RAAF Air Gunner and 433194 FO Alan Campbell Bond RAAF Navigator were reported 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 005 1944-11-21 Thomas Gwynne Copyright expired - public domain PD-AustraliaGov World War II people of the Royal Australian Air Force Young R No 463 Squadron RAAF RAF Waddington Avro Lancaster aircrew Avro Lancaster in Australian service World War II forces of Australia in the United Kingdom Cockpit of Avro Lancaster | ||||
