Collection of documents including investigation of the crash and casualties of Flying Officer W D Kelly's crew. Details of 5 Group operations 1/2 February 1945.

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Collection of documents including investigation of the crash and casualties of Flying Officer W D Kelly's crew. Details of 5 Group operations 1/2 February 1945.

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First page is investigation of loss of Lancaster PB 840 2/3 February 1945. List crew of whom all but Sergeant R F Dyson were killed. Gives location of graves. Includes account of bodies and identification from German authorities. Second page gives details of operations to attack Siegen (town and marshalling yards). Karlsruhe and Poortershaven (part). List aircraft types and squadrons taking part and casualties and results. Third and fourth pages contain a list of squadron aircraft with dates brought onto squadron and dates off with losses annotated with captain. Does not identify which squadron. Page five is appreciation and analysis of operation to Karlsruhe with comments on weather problems, enemy fighter activity and anti-aircraft fire effectiveness. Tables losses and allocates reasons as fighters, flak, falling bombs and unknown. Last page has map showing routes for operations on 2/3 February 45

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MCowlishawF3050596-190305-02

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D S Bassett, “Collection of documents including investigation of the crash and casualties of Flying Officer W D Kelly's crew. Details of 5 Group operations 1/2 February 1945.,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed February 19, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/48577.

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