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spidge · 11-01-2007, 02:28 AM

This is a fantastic resource.

My first search was just putting in Lancaster and nothing else. Came up with 207 pages @ 20 listings per page....PHEW!!!!

The first RAAF 460 squadron aircraft was interesting and unusual all in one.
Lancaster LL951 Information

Type Lancaster Serial Number LL951 Squadron 460 X1D AR-C Operation Duisburg Date 1 21st May 1944 Date 2 22nd May 1944
Further Information

"Serial Range LL617 - LM296 This aircraft was one of 450 Lancasters ordered from Armstrong whitworth Aircraft Apr42 and delivered as 100 Mk.11s with Hercules XV1 engines, delivered from Oct43 to Mar44, and 350 Mk.1s with Merlin 24 engines delivered from Nov43 to Aug44. LL951 was a Mk.1 and was delivered to No.460 Sqdn Apr44. When lost this aircraft had a total of 34 hours. No other operational history traced. Airborne 2229 21May44 from Binbrook. Shot down near Zundert (Noord- Brabant), a large village astride the main road between Breda in Holland and the Belgian port of Antwerpen. Those killed are buried in Zundert Protestant churchyard. although not unique, it was unusual not to have an RAAF member of crew in an RAAF Bomber Squadron. F/O R.E.McDougall RCAF KIA Sgt W.H.Leaney PoW F/S R.R.Bunker KIA F/O E.O'Donoghue PoW Sgt J.Herkes KIA Sgt W.F.O'Neill KIA Sgt H.R.Elsbury KIA. Sgt W.H.Leaney was interned in Camp L7, PoW No.173. F/O E.O'Donoghue initially evaded until betrayed by Ren_ van Muylem and captured in Antwerp 8Aug44 and interned in Camp L3, PoW No.6304. "

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spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,028	This is a fantastic resource. My first search was just putting in Lancaster and nothing else. Came up with 207 pages @ 20 listings per page....PHEW!!!! The first RAAF 460 squadron aircraft was interesting and unusual all in one. Lancaster LL951 Information Type Lancaster Serial Number LL951 Squadron 460 X1D AR-C Operation Duisburg Date 1 21st May 1944 Date 2 22nd May 1944 Further Information "Serial Range LL617 - LM296 This aircraft was one of 450 Lancasters ordered from Armstrong whitworth Aircraft Apr42 and delivered as 100 Mk.11s with Hercules XV1 engines, delivered from Oct43 to Mar44, and 350 Mk.1s with Merlin 24 engines delivered from Nov43 to Aug44. LL951 was a Mk.1 and was delivered to No.460 Sqdn Apr44. When lost this aircraft had a total of 34 hours. No other operational history traced. Airborne 2229 21May44 from Binbrook. Shot down near Zundert (Noord- Brabant), a large village astride the main road between Breda in Holland and the Belgian port of Antwerpen. Those killed are buried in Zundert Protestant churchyard. although not unique, it was unusual not to have an RAAF member of crew in an RAAF Bomber Squadron. F/O R.E.McDougall RCAF KIA Sgt W.H.Leaney PoW F/S R.R.Bunker KIA F/O E.O'Donoghue PoW Sgt J.Herkes KIA Sgt W.F.O'Neill KIA Sgt H.R.Elsbury KIA. Sgt W.H.Leaney was interned in Camp L7, PoW No.173. F/O E.O'Donoghue initially evaded until betrayed by Ren_ van Muylem and captured in Antwerp 8Aug44 and interned in Camp L3, PoW No.6304. " __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm