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Lancaster LL692 Information

Type	Lancaster
Serial Number	LL692
Squadron	514
X1D	JI-C2
Operation	Stuttgart
Date 1	28th July 1944
Date 2	29th July 1944

Further Information

"Serial Range LL617 - LM296 This aircraft was one of 450 Lancasters ordered from Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Apr42 and built as 100 Mk.11s with Hercules XV1 engines, delivered from Oct43 to Mar44, and 350 Mk.1s with Merlin 24 engines initially installed and delivered from Nov43 to Aug44. LL692 was a Mk.11 and was delivered to No.115 Sqdn 28Dec43, joining No.514 Sqdn 25Jul44. Took part in the following key Operations: With No.115 Sqdn as KO- F, Berlin 2/3Jan44; Berlin 15/16Feb44; Berlin 24/25Mar44; With No.514 Sqdn as JI-C2, Stuttgart 28/29Jul44-Lost. No accounting for the period 25Mar44-28Jul44 No record of total hours. Date of joining No.514 Sqdn is obscure. However, LL692 was lost by No.514 on this date. No record of total hours. LL692 was one of three No.514 Sqdn Lancasters lost on this operation. See: DS813; LM206. Airborne 2147 28Jul44 from Waterbeach. Cause of loss not established. Crashed near the village of St-Cloud-en-Dunois (Eure- et-Loir), 8 km SSE of Ch_teaudon. F/O Giffin is buried in St-Cloud- en-Dunois Communal Cemetery. F/L E.A.Campbell RCAF Evd F/O R.R.Giffin RCAF (P2) KIA Sgt W.A.Donaldson Evd F/S E.F.Garland RCAF PoW F/O J.E.Chasinger RCAF Evd Sgt A.R.Lyons Evd F/S E.R.Jones RCAF Evd F/S S.A.Harvey RCAF Evd F/S E.F.Garland was interned in Camp L7, PoW No.580. "