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28/29 July, 1944; STUTTGART:
If cloud and bad weather had caused problems on the previous
raid, then the bright moon conditions that prevailed over France
this night were to prove an even greater hazard to the bombers.
As the force of nearly 500 aircraft headed for Stuttgart, German
night-fighters were waiting, and in the ensuing air battle 39
Lancasters were shot down. Fiskerton had 12 aircraft airborne.
F/Lt William Powell (JB701) and crew were all killed when their
Lancaster was shot down by a JU88 nightfighter over France. The
flight engineer and rear gunner have separate graves, but the
remaining five crew members are in a collective grave; all seven
rest in St Martin-sur-Oreuse Cemetery, Yonne.
FTR JB701 (EA-G)
F/L W.L. Powell Pilot (Killed)
Sgt J.F. West F/E (Killed)
F/O G.E. Franklin NAV (Killed)
F/S D.C.
Stephens W/OP (Killed)
Sgt
G.E. Kirkpatrick A/G (Killed)
F/O A.S. Cole
B/A (Killed)
Sgt T. Moore
A/G (Killed)
Crew on their 17th operation
The crew are remembered on a memorial in the local
French churchyard.
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