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NOTE ON DATES: IMPORTANT: For consistency, the Date is given as the date the mission TOOK OFF since the precise time of a loss is not always certain. Take Off date is unambigous and fixed in the official records, but obviously in those cases where the incident occurred before midnight UK time, then the Take Off Date will be the same as the Incident Date. Of course, most Bomber Command missions flew through midnight, therefore a Luftwaffe claim against a plane - or a locally generated crash report - may record the incident as occurring on the day following our Take Off Date. Bear this in mind when cross-referencing to our Luftwaffe Victories by Name/Date Database and other Luftwaffe sources. In some cases other sources may quote the date following our date, using locally generated reports as their source. To add to the potential for confusion, remember to take into account a Luftwaffe recorded date will be in local time, 1 hour ahead of UK time. When we discover a validated Incident Date we change our record if necessary.

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#	Name* SORT (↓)	First Names	Rank	Service No.	Commemorated	Born	Role	Air Force	Command	Unit	DateofIncident *See Note SORT (↓)	Aircraft	Type	Serial	Code	Base	Time	Mission	Incident	Fate	Referring Database	Notes
1	Apps	K	Sergeant	1334148			Air Gunner	RAFVR	Bomber Command	12Sqn	1944-01-01	Lancaster	III	ND325	PM-C	Wickenby	30	Berlin	Bailed out The aircraft made a forced landing with wheels down but incurred damage to right main wheel on an obstruction at Wingsbach 3km North of Taunusstein and well off its track	PoW No. 269827, Stalag 4B Muhlberg
2	Panniers	Vernon Archie	Sergeant	1864701	Beckley (All Saints) Churchyard Grave 193	1919	Air Gunner	RAFVR	Bomber Command	12Sqn	1944-01-01	Lancaster	III	ND325	PM-C	Wickenby	30	Berlin	Bailed out The aircraft made a forced landing with wheels down but incurred damage to right main wheel on an obstruction at Wingsbach 3km North of Taunusstein and well off its track	PoW, died on the 23 Jun 1946		Promoted to Warrant Officer whist as PoW Son of Vernon Elmer Panniers and Mary Panniers; husband of Primrose Peggie Panniers, of Hastings
3	Pearce	R H	Sergeant	1323762			Flight Engineer	RAFVR	Bomber Command	12Sqn	1944-01-01	Lancaster	III	ND325	PM-C	Wickenby	30	Berlin	Bailed out The aircraft made a forced landing with wheels down but incurred damage to right main wheel on an obstruction at Wingsbach 3km North of Taunusstein and well off its track	PoW No. 43351 Stalag 9C Muhlhausen
4	Smith	Dennis Leslie	Sergeant	1230432	Durnbach War Cemetery Plot 1 Row A Grave 21	1923	Wireless Operator/Air Gunner	RAFVR	Bomber Command	12Sqn	1944-01-01	Lancaster	III	ND325	PM-C	Wickenby	30	Berlin	Bailed out The aircraft made a forced landing with wheels down but incurred damage to right main wheel on an obstruction at Wingsbach 3km North of Taunusstein and well off its track	Killed		Trained as a Wireless Operator in Mar 1942 and was posted to 12 Sqn, in Aug 1943. Completing sorties to Bochum, Hannover (twice) and Mannheim before the end of that month, two more trips to Hannover, strikes against Frankfurt, Hagen, Kassel, Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart. The following month Smith’s chances of survival were really reduced, Bomber Command commencing its famous winter 1943-44 campaign against Berlin, an onslaught that called upon the 21 year old Wireless Operator to participate in no less than four strikes against the enemy’s capital in little over a week - in one of these his a/c was holed by flak in three places. Remarkably he survived four more sorties there in December, in addition to a return trip to Leipzig, but inevitably, on the night of 1-2 Jan 1944, on his ninth visit to the capital, he was posted missing. Dennis Smith was the only fatality from this crew: ‘His parachute failed to deploy fully after he had been hit by the tailplane when baling out and his body was found by the Germans in a forest clearing and identified by a captured crew member.’ His remains were re-interred in the Durnbach War Cemetery after the War. Son of Mrs. A. E. Smith, of Eltham, London; stepson of Mr. A. W. Fillingham, of Eltham
5	Walters	E A	Warrant Officer Class 2				Navigator	RCAF	Bomber Command	12Sqn	1944-01-01	Lancaster	III	ND325	PM-C	Wickenby	30	Berlin	Bailed out The aircraft made a forced landing with wheels down but incurred damage to right main wheel on an obstruction at Wingsbach 3km North of Taunusstein and well off its track	PoW No. 269889, Stalag 4B	Paradie Archive Database
6	Waterhouse	E	Sergeant	691925			Bomb Aimer	RAFVR	Bomber Command	12Sqn	1944-01-01	Lancaster	III	ND325	PM-C	Wickenby	30	Berlin	Bailed out The aircraft made a forced landing with wheels down but incurred damage to right main wheel on an obstruction at Wingsbach 3km North of Taunusstein and well off its track	PoW No. 269892 Stalag 4B Muhlberg
7	West	K L	Pilot Officer	157296			Pilot	RAFVR	Bomber Command	12Sqn	1944-01-01	Lancaster	III	ND325	PM-C	Wickenby	30	Berlin	Plt.Off. West, opted to stay with the a/c and carry out a forced landing The aircraft made a forced landing with wheels down but incurred damage to right main wheel on an obstruction at Wingsbach 3km North of Taunusstein and well off its track	PoW No. 248366 Stalag 4B Muhlberg

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