Aircraft Type: Lancaster

Serial number: ED 759

Radio call sign: AR – X

Unit: 460 Sqn RAAF

Summary:

Lancaster ED 759 took off from RAF Binbrook on the night of 29/30 May 1943 to attack

Wuppertal, Germany. Bomb Load was 1 x 4000lb bomb and 48 x 30lb, 6600 x 4lb

incendiaries. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to

base. Twelve aircraft from the squadron took part in the raid.

Crew:

RAAF 413924 Flt Sgt Bull, H E Captain (Pilot0

RAF Sgt Sherratt, F C (Navigator)

RAF Sgt Munday, D R (Air Bomber)

RAF Sgt Willars, P C (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)

RAF Sgt Powis, G G (Flight Engineer)

RAF Sgt Anderson, R M (Air Gunner)

RAF Sgt Meech, A W G (Air Gunner)

Post war it was established that the aircraft crashed at Remscheld-Luttring-Hausen and all

the crew were killed. Flt Sgt Bull is interred in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery,

Germany.