Date of birth:

April 4th, 1923 (Oshawa/Ontario, Canada)

Date of death:

February 21st, 1945 (Helenaveen/North Brabant, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Canadian War Cemetery Groesbeek
Plot: XV. Row: D. Grave: 8.

Service number:

J/36360

Nationality:

Canadian

Flying Officer
Royal Canadian Air Force
50 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

On Wednesday 21 February 1944 at 5:02 pm the Avro Lancaster MK I, LL741 VN-X took off with its crew for the sixteenth mission from Royal Air Force base Skellingthorpe. Peter Gordon Anderson was the pilot and along with his crew they joined about 165 other Avro Lancasters and twelve Mosquitos of the No 5 Group, this for a mission to bomb the Mittelland Canal in Germany, Gravenhorst in North Rhine-Westphalia. At approximately 8:37 pm, the Avro Lancaster MK I, LL741, VN-X 14, dropped 1000 pounders over German territory. Soon after, they were likely to be hit by FLAK (Flugabwehrkanone or Fliegerabwehrkanone).
The plane started the return journey with all engines still working properly. At about 9.12 pm, near Deurne at 7000 feet, the Avro Lancaster was fired upon by Hauptmann Heinz Rokker of Nachtjagdgeschwader 2 (NJG 2), firing on the cockpit on both sides.
Peter Gordon Anderson ordered his crew to abandon the Avro Lancaster.
Flight Engineer Denys William Lewis and Air Bomber Denis Alphonsus McCauley exited the plane. Around 9.15 pm the Avro Lancaster MKI, LL741, VN-X crashed between Griendtsveen and Helenaveen.

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