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WARD, Robert

Aircraft Information
Aircraft Avro Lancaster I
Serial Number W4896
Markings GT-W
Memorial information
Burial/Memorial Country Germany
Burial/Memorial Place Durnbach War Cemetery
Grave Reference 8. D. 16..
Epitaph GOD TOOK HIM HOME, IT WAS HIS WILL, BUT IN OUR HEARTS, HE LIVETH STILL
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase 2
Panel Number 260
Enlistment information
Service Number R/86739
Service Royal Canadian Air Force
Group 8
Squadron 156
Trade Navigator
Country of origin if different Canada
Last Operation information
Start Date 08-03-1943
End Date 09-03-1943
Takeoff Station Warboys
Day/Night raid Night
Operation Nuremburg. 335 aircraft, 8 losses (2.4%) using H2S and visual marking as Nuremburg was out of the range of Oboe. Ground haze prevented accurate marking and as a result the bombing was spread over a wide area, much of it outside the city limits. Much damage of MAN and Siemens factories together with railway installations.
Reason for Loss Thought to have crashed near Furth, NW of Nuremburg