Operation: Hamburg, Germany
Date: 27/28th July 1943
Unit: No. 467 Squadron.
Type: Lancaster III
Serial: W5003
Code: PO-H
Base: RAF Bottesford
Location: Wohrden, 6 km. South West of Heide
Pilot: P/O. James Llewellyn Carrington AUS/413167 RAAF Age 25. Killed
Fl/Eng: Fl/Sgt. E.C. Brookes PoW No: 1288 Camp: Stalag Luft Heydekrug
Nav: Fl/Sgt. Michael Rodney Warr King 1315580 RAFVR Age 20. Killed
Air/Bmr: Sgt. Henry Victor Hawkins 658138 RAFVR Age ? Killed
W/Op/Air/Gnr: Sgt. William Green 1081353 RAFVR Age 34. Killed
Air/Gnr: Sgt. Herbert Bradley 620508 RAF Age 27. Killed
Air/Gnr: Sgt. S. Drake P.O.W. (Repatriated to England on the Arundel Castle on 6th February 1945.)
REASON FOR LOSS:
Took off from Bottesford as part of a group of 787 aircraft - 353 Lancaster's, 244 Halifaxes, 116 Stirlings, 74 Wellingtons. 17 aircraft were lost. A total of 2,326 tons of bombs were dropped.
"Fips" Radusch (shown left) had a total of 65 night kills and 1 day kill by the end of the war. He survived but no further information on his post war activities.
He died on July 29th 1988 of natural causes in Nordstrand, Schleswig-Holstein. (By strange coincidence the same area W5003 came down!)
P/O. James Llewellyn Carrington. Hamburg Cemetery 5A. L.13. Son of James and Clara Middleton Carrington, of Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia.
Fl/Sgt. Michael Rodney Warr King. Hamburg Cemetery Joint grave 5A.L.10. Son of Wing Cdr. Dudley Warr King and Yvonne Muriel King, of Careby, Lincolnshire, England.
Sgt. Henry Victor Hawkins. Hamburg Cemetery 5A. L.12. Next of Kin details currently not available - are you able to assist completion of these and any other information?
Sgt. William Green. Hamburg Cemetery Joint grave 5A..L.10. Son of Samuel and Jane Green, of Bryn, Lancashire, England.
Sgt. Herbert Bradley. Hamburg Cemetery 5A. L.11. Son of Selina Patton, of Brompton, Yorkshire, England.
With thanks to Joseph Green for the use of the photographs and information on his Uncle, Sgt. William Green. Bill Chorley - 'Bomber Command Losses Vols. 1-9, plus ongoing revisions', Dr. Theo E.W. Boiten and Mr. Roderick J. Mackenzie - 'Nightfighter War Diaries Vols. 1 and 2', Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Tom Kracker - 'Kracker Luftwaffe Archives'. Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt - 'Bomber Command War Diaries’.
Above left the certificate the family received for looking after the German Prisoners of War and right, Hamburg Cemetery today.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember
them. - Laurence
Binyon
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