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Updates

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9th September 2009

Photographs added of the graves of all casualties from each crew listed on this web site that are buried in the Durnbach War cemetery.

Many thanks goes to Steve Elsden, cousin of Stephen Preston for these photographs.

 

5th September 2009

Move to new server completed and hopefully all links now working

 

27th May 2009

Details of the loss of another Lancaster has ben added. This is Lancaster LM751, PG-X of 619 Squdron. Follow link in LH side bar.

 

15th May 2009

New web page added with the intercom chatter of three Lancaster bomber crews over their targets. Click on the "Lancaster Intercom on Op's" on the left of the pages.

 

21st February 2009

A new photo of him has been added to FO. Hugh McCulloch's web page in the Lancaster LM 334 link on the left side of the web pages.

 

23rd December 2008

New web page added, "Bombed from above" with details of bombs that fell on the aircraft from one above that the crew of ED627 were in when on operations over enemy territory. 

 

17th October 2008

Two new photo's of Ludwig Meister added to his photo's page accessed from his own web page

http://www.lancastered627.bravehost.com/Ludwig%20Meister%20photos.html

 

16th October 2008

New photograph of Leonard Wilson Aspden in RAF uniform added to his web page under Lancaster DV187

 

6th November 2007

Newspaper articles that were published in 1977 about the recovery and defusing of the 4000lb HC "cookie" bomb believed to be from Lancaster ED627 found in the path of the A6 autobahn route added both in English and Deutsch.

 

19th October 2007

New photo of WO. Leonard Wilson Aspden, pilot of Lancaster DV187 added.

 

3rd October 2007

New web page "The Bomb" added showing photographs of the recovery of a 4000lb "cookie" bomb in April 1977.

This bomb is believed to have been the one carried by Lancaster ED627 the night it was shot down

 

August 2007

Photographs of the crew of Lancaster DV187 grave in the Michelau cemetery when they were buried by the German authorities. Also some "now" photographs of the same place as it is today and one of their grave in the Durnbach War Cemetery after they were re-interred by the CWGC added to the DV187 main page.

 

17th July 2007

New webpage "Members of other Crews" added.

Further information about Sgt. Chew of DV187 and in "other crews" webpage information about FO. Wakeling and PO. Fairclough of 207 Squadron and Sgt. Norris of 576 Squadron added.

 

28th May 2007

The English translation of Norbert Volmanns newspaper articles about the shooting down of Lancaster DV187 of 12 Squadron has now been added to the DV187 webpage on the far left.

 

6th May 2007

New information about Henry Toomey's marriage.

 

2007

Lancaster DV187 of 12 Squadron and Lancaster ED583 of 100 Squadron