Squadron Aircraft: Summary Information

Summary

Listed below is the information available for this aircraft which served in 550 Squadron.

In particular thanks are due as listed below to sites without which it would have been next to impossible to put this information together:

• Bob Baxter (Bob's Bomber Command) for details of the aircraft. Especially the following very useful link: 550 Squadron Lancasters.
• Anybody wishing to locate further Lancaster histories, or to trace Lancaster losses for a raid can contact Larry Wright (a Lancaster and Manchester Bomber Historian)
  or look at his website http://www.lancaster-archive.com/
• Finally in the cases of bombers that Failed to Return (FTR) the site http://www.lostbombers.co.uk/ has been invaluable (although this web-site appears to have gone offline permanently).

Aircraft Details: The column headers should be fairly self-explanatory. The final column (Web links) contains, where given, links to other items on this web-site or indeed to external sources where further information or photographs, etc can be found.

Associated Aircrew: This is the list of servicemen known to have flown on this aircraft at some time or other, it is not a particular crew (that can be found on other lists available on the site such as the crew shown on a specific operation, etc).

An extended view of the Squadron Aircraft report providing more detailed information is available here [IMPLEMENTATION STILL TO BE FINALISED]. This extended version of the Squadron Aircraft report lists the crew members known to have flown in a particular aircraft.

Definitions of the abbreviations used are available: here.

Aircraft Details

Aircraft Details							Associated Aircrew
Id	Service Number	Name	No. of Ops	BQ-Code	Other Information	Web Links	Name
M	PB562	-	1	BQ-M	FTR 6 Nov 1944, Gelsenkirchen. McCarthy crew all KIA. Sgt. Kendrew (of the McCarthy crew) was originally buried in Gelsenkirchen-Hullen cemetery (no other members of the crew were recovered). This perhaps indicates that the aircraft came down somewhere in the target area.		F/O F S Adley F/O L J T McCarthy Sgt J D Shilcock Sgt T W Farmer F/Sgt F L J Colbourn Sgt S J Lovett Sgt L Kendrew F/O F M Kennedy F/O R A Tapsell F/O D J K White F/O H Black F/Sgt G E Collinson Sgt J P Sheridan Sgt J McVey

This aircraft is one of the 550 Squadron aircraft that was lost on operations.
The details of those air-crew who lost their lives while on operations in this aircraft are listed on the 550 Squadron Roll of Honour, see: PB562.

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The details were last updated: 17 January 2021

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