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Name CAMM
First names Philip O
Rank Sgt
Service RAF
Service number 544768
Crew position Flight Engineer
Age 23
Date of death 03/01/44
Cemetery Retzow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Photographed by Malcolm Brooke

Image courtesy of Barbara Lister
From the local newspaper

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Initial Training (unknown location)

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49sqn in 1939 (Philip Camm is 6th from the left, rear row)

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Unknown but hilly location. Philip Camm is 3rd from the left, rear row.

Photo from the effects of Philip Otley Camm reproduced courtesy of Barbara [Betty] Lister.

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Left to right......Unknown, F/O Ronald Stobo, F/O George Thomas Young.
F/L Johnny Palmer, Unknown, Sgt Philip Otley Camm.
2/3 January, 1944; BERLIN:
Every available person on the station gave a hand in clearing the snow ready for the evening's operation. Take-offs were able to begin 15 minutes before midnight with Fiskerton managing to get 12 aircraft airborne from the 13 detailed.
Just 311 bombers struggled to reach a cloud-covered Berlin where the bombing was spread, with no concentrated fires developing. The German controllers had realised the bombers target in advance and instructed the night-fighters accordingly; most of the 27 Lancasters lost, fell in the Berlin area.

The reason for the total loss of F/Lt Johnny Palmer (JB727 EA-S) and crew has never been established; the pilot, who had recently celebrated his 21st birthday is remembered along with his crew on the Runnymede Memorial; their mid-upper gunner, Derek Prusher, was just 18 years old.

It is just possible that F/Lt Palmer’s S - Sugar was the aircraft that was in collision with another Fiskerton Lancaster that night as it would have been in the same wave, and if slightly ahead of N-Nan it would have changed course and be heading back across the track of the oncoming tail-enders.

Lancaster JB727 (EA-S)
F/L C.J.E. Palmer Pilot (Killed)
Sgt P.O. Camm F/E (Killed)
F/O G.T. Young NAV (Killed)
Sgt H. Conrad W/OP (Killed)
Sgt D.D.R. Dallaway A/G (Killed)
F/O R. Stobo A/B (Killed)
Sgt D.F. Prusher A/G (Killed)

Crew on their 11th operation

The "Documents" section contains....
"The story of Sgt Philip Camm Parts 1&2"
which gives additional details of this crash
and the family's correspondence with the RAF