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Lancaster ED934 /G Information

Type	Lancaster
Serial Number	ED934 /G
Squadron	617
X1D	AJ-K
Operation	Chastise
Date 1	16th May 1943
Date 2	17th May 1943

Further Information

"Serial Range ED303 - EE202 This aircraft was one of 620 Lancasters ordered from A.V.Roe (Chadderton) in 1941 and built from Nov42 to Jun43 as 129 Mk.1s and 491 Mk.111s in a mixed production run up to ED782 and all as Mk.111s from ED783 onwards. The Mk.1s were initially fitted with Merlin 20 and the Mk.111s with Merlin 28 engines. ED934 was a Mk.111 Type 464 (Provisioning) Lancaster. Tested 29Apr43 and delivered to 617 Sqdn 3May43. Part of the second wave of Operation Chastise Lost on its first Key Operation with a total of 17 hours. ED934 was one of eight 617 Sqdn Lancasters lost on this operation. See: ED864; ED865; ED887; ED910; ED925; ED927; ED937. Airborne 2130 16May43 from Scampton headed for the Sorpe Dam. Hit by Flak from Flak Batteries on Texel, while flying at 300 feet outbound, and crashed into the Waddenzee W of Harlingen, where F/S McDowell is buried in the General Cemetery. His body was recovered 22Jun43; his comrades have no known graves. P/O V.W.Byers RCAF KIA Sgt A.J.Taylor KIA F/O J.H.Warner KIA P/O A.N.Whitaker KIA Sgt J.Wilkinson KIA Sgt C.McA Jarvis KIA F/S J.McDowell RCAF KIA "