ME700 Lancaster Mk1 VN-V

On Saturday September 23rd 1944 at 18:43, 50 Sqn RAF Avro Lancaster Mk I ME700 VN-V, left RAF Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire for ops Dortmund-Ems canal near Ladbergen.

At 23:40 homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Schmidt, Feldwebel Schönfeld & Feldwebel Schlosser of the 8./NJG 1, who were flying Bf 110 G-4 G9+AS from Werl airfield in Germany. The aircraft crashed at Welsummerweg road, Dalfsen, Overijssel - Netherlands.

Pilot / F/Lt. O.G. Korpela J/24402 RCAF / evader

Flight Engineer / Sgt. H. MacFarlane 1822135 RAF / evader

Navigator / F/Sgt. E.H. Tunnell 1395660 RAF / Dalfsen cemetery

Bomb Aimer / F/O. C.D. Lucas 153271 RAF / evader (NCO:1323837, Gazette of 16th November 1943)

Wireless Operator/ Air Gunner / Sgt. R. Larcombe 1332939 RAF / Dalfsen cemetery

Mid Upper Gunner / F/O. A.B. Harvey J/38162 RCAF / Dalfsen cemetery

Rear Gunner / F/O. J.M. Dunsmuir J/21396 RCAF / Dalfsen cemetery