Crash Site Avro Lancaster Mk II B671 OF-A

In the early morning of Saturday 25 March 1944, the British Lancaster bomber Mk ll B671 OF-A of 97 Squadron RAF crashed near this spot. The aircraft had taken off from RAF Bourn the previous evening and was on its way back from an attack on Berlin. Over the Netherlands, it was intercepted by a German Messerschmidt Bf 110 night fighter of Leutnant Achim Woeste of Stab III./NJG 3 and caught fire. It exploded between Weebosch and Luycksgestel killing the seven-member crew:

Officer William D. Coates, Pilot 20 years
Flight Sergeant Stanley Nutall, Navigator, 32 years
Flight Sergeant William CHAPMAN Wireless Operator, 22 years
Sergeant Bertram Nicholas Flight Engineer, 23 years
Sergeant William Lambert York Mid Upper Gunner, 19 years
Sergeant Frank Thompson Rear Gunner, 20 years
all RAF VR
Flying Officer John Moody Baldwin Bomb Aimer RCAF, 23 years

They are buried at the general cemetery "Oude Toren" in Eindhoven (Woensel).

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Geert-Jan van Glabbeek
• - https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/50778

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