LEST WE FORGET
Air Operations: (No. 460 Squadron Lancaster aircraft NX585), Germany, 25 April 1945
Lancaster NX585 took off from Binbrook at 0525 hours on 25 April 1945 to bomb the Eagle’s Nest (Kehlsteinhaus) and the nearby SS Barracks in Bavaria near Berchtesgaden. The aircraft crashed behind enemy lines and the crew members spent the last few days of the war in captivity.
The crew members of NX585 were:
Flight Sergeant John Reginald Bennett (433973) (Air Gunner) PoW, Discharged from the RAAF: 25 October 1945
Flight Sergeant Hugh Ross Connochie (439871) (Air Gunner) PoW, Discharged from the RAAF: 26 October 1945
Flight Sergeant Colin Norman Fraser (435111) (Navigator) PoW, Discharged from the RAAF: 11 February 1946
Flight Sergeant Daniel David Lynch (428121) (Air Bomber) PoW, Discharged from the RAAF: 8 February 1946
Flying Officer Henry Godsell Payne (436344) (Pilot) PoW, Discharged from the RAAF: 31 January 1946
Flight Sergeant William Allen Stanley (436168) (Wireless Air Gunner) PoW, Discharged from the RAAF: 7 December 1945
Flight Sergeant D F Thorne (1473881) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer) PoW
References:
Chorley W R Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War – Volume 6 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1945, Midland Counties Publications, 1998
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
Bibliography:
Firkins, P. C. (Peter Charles) (441386) Strike and Return, Westward Ho Publishing City Beach WA, 1985