Danish WW2 Pilots

Fg Off. Niels Erik Westergaard

Unit

619 Sqn

Aircraft

Lancaster B III , ??120 (PG-)

Date

08.07.43

Time

22:27 - 03:32

Details

The primary target [COLOGNE] was attacked and bombed at 0118 hours from 21,400-ft. Weather: 10/10ths cloud over target at approximately 10,000-ft. Bombs were released on [...] flares. Nickels dropped. Very little flak was encountered on comparison to previous raids on this target. [...] were seen shortly afterwards. An unidentified twin engine plane passed by on parallel course over target area.

Crew

  1. F/O McDonald, D.A.
  2. Sgt. Smale, R.F.
  3. P/O Westergaard, N. E.
  4. P/O Headlam, J. P.
  5. Sgt. Tyrie, W.R.
  6. Sgt. Meeghan, F.A.
  7. Sgt. Forrester, J.

Source

AIR 27/2131

Note

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