Crash site Lancaster ME683 EM-V Meeuwen

Monument in memory of four Canadian and three British crew members of a bomber from the 207th Squadron, who died here during the night of June 21-22, 1944.
The LANCASTER ME683 EM-W took off from Spilsby (Lincolnshire), England, at 11:20 p.m. for an operation against synthetic oil production at Wesseling, Germany. German night fighters quickly found their way into the bomber stream, and at 1:30 a.m., Major Heinz Wolfgang Schnaufer attacked the LANCASTER ME683. After a dogfight, the aircraft crashed here in the hamlet of Genits, not far from the center of Meeuwen.
The crew members were:
Flying Officer Alvin Van Dyke Corless (pilot)
Sergeant Kenneth Victor Barnes (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Raphael Edward de Casagrande (Navigator)
Flying Officer Bruce Allan Somers (Bomb Aimer)
Flight Sergeant Stanley Robert Bore (Wireless Operator)
Sergeant Joseph Francis Mireault (Air Gunner)
Sergeant James Ivan Magoffin (Air Gunner)
All seven are buried at the Adegem Canadian War Cemetery.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Luc Van Waeyenberge