Dispersal Number 23, RAF Wyton, Cambs
Time 07.00 Date 6 Oct 1943.
CLINGHOLME: Come on Sergeant, they’re not coming back.
GROUND CREW SGT: Aye sir, I suppose you’re right, they’d be out of fuel long ago.
CLINGHOLME: Jump in, I’ll give you a lift back in the jeep.
London Evening Standard Date 11 Nov 1943.
The Air Ministry have released the names of a 314 Sqn. Flight Crew all of whom failed to return from operations over enemy territory, on the night of 5 October this year. Extensive scrutiny, throughout the Luftwaffe POW camp system by the Red Cross, have failed to locate any of the crew, and it is therefore with regret that all are officially posted missing, presumed dead.
Ijmuiden Morning Post Date 09 Dec 1973. (Translated from the Dutch)
The local fishing trawler Castricum
caught more than she bargained for whilst trawling the fishing grounds 30 miles west of the port yesterday. Some large pieces of metal, believed to be the nose section of a war time British bomber, with what appears to be an aircraft radio, of the type used in the famous Lancaster, were pulled aboard the vessel despite heavy weather. The radio appears to have been struck by canon fire. Although the wreckage had obviously been in the water for many years the white number 13th
was still visible, painted by hand on top of the black base paint. The British Military Attache in Amsterdam has been notified.