Originally Posted by
tiny fireburn
On the night of 3 March 1945, while converting to the Lancaster with 1654 HCU at Wigsley, Notts, my Dad was captain of Lancaster 'JF-J' which was attacked by Luftwaffe night fighters (reported as Ju 88s). One of the other Lancs in the formation was shot down and the HCU aircraft were all diverted to Fairwood Common (now Swansea Airport) The Nat Archives have a record of the Lancaster gunners' reports, but nothing else - there doesn't seem to be an ORB for 1654 HCU. I am keen to obtain a photo or two of 1654's Lancasters and would be interested to run to earth the German report of the incident. If anyone can throw any more light on the event - listed in my Dad's log book as "Exercise 14 - target 'Sweepstake'" - I'd be very interested to hear from them.
The reference of the ORB for 1654 HCU at Kew is as shown in the link below below:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...ils/r/C1912991