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| Keywords: Flight Sergeant Henderson of 463 Squadron RAAF Waddington Nov 1944 AWM P07841.004.jpg AWM caption United Kingdom England Lincolnshire Waddington Portrait of 433549 Flight Sergeant Flt Sgt Joslyn Len Lavarre Henderson 463 Sqn RAAF of Manly NSW Flt Sgt Henderson was serving as Air Gunner aboard Lancaster PB290 JO-K when it took off from RAF Base Waddington on the night of 6/7th December 1944 to bomb the marshalling yards at Giessen Germany Of the nineteen aircraft from the Squadron that took part in the raid only PB290 failed to return Flt Sgt Henderson; Sergeant Phillip J Gwynne RAF Flight Engineer ; 419821 Flying Officer FO Henry Stanley Mack MacMeikan RAAF Bomb Aimer ; 434484 FO Gwynne Thomas RAAF Wireless Operator Air ; 431448 Flt Sgt Richard Dick Thurston Hawthorn RAAF Air Gunner ; 429369 FO Richard Rodney Rod Young RAAF Pilot and 433194 FO Alan Campbell Bond RAAF Navigator were reported as lost on operations Following the war it was later established that the aircraft crashed into woods about 3km north-east of Giessen At the time of the crash the remains of FO Young FO MacMeikan Flt Sgt Hawthorn and Sgt Gwynne were recovered and buried in Giessen local cemetery Later they were reinterred in the Hanover War Cemetery In 2004 German historians found part of the Lancaster's wreckage and the remains of FO Bond FO Thomas and Flt Sgt Henderson in a forest near Giessen Family members of the crew joined representatives from the RAAF and the Australian Embassy in Berlin for a military funeral service for the remaining crewmembers on 13 September 2005 FO Thomas wrote on the back of this photograph Les Henderson beside his turret before his trip to Dortmund-Ems Canal The image was captured less than a month before the fatal accident See also P07841 003 and P07841 009 P07841 004 1944-11-21 Thomas Gwynne Copyright expired - public domain PD-AustraliaGov No 463 Squadron RAAF Avro Lancaster tail gun turrets Avro Lancaster in Australian service RAF Waddington World War II people of the Royal Australian Air Force Henderson J World War II forces of Australia in the United Kingdom Avro Lancaster aircrew | ||||
