Short Stirling IV LK193 ZO-V ✬ ✝ - Bomber - RAF 196 - LK193 ZO-V

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Short Bros. and Harland, Belfast

24/9-44 6MU
20/9-44 196 Sqdn
2/3-45 Cat E FB MIssing
5/5-45 SOC

During the night between 2 April and 3 April 1945 Stirling MK IV LK193 was on Operation SOE Tablejam 260 with containers to be dropped in Denmark. It left Shepherds Grove Air Base at 2230 hrs, but crashed off the coast at Sheringham at 2250 hrs!

(Description of Accident: "The aircraft is known to have struck the sea and exploded off the British Coast, near Cromer. Not known whether crash was due to a technical defect."
Cromer is 4 miles east of Sheringham.) The whole crew died except F/Sgt Bennett, who later died from his
injuries 2 June 1945. The CWGC uses the date of death 3 April for other crewmembers, so that date is also used here as date for the crash.

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