CAPTAIN: FLACK
LANCASTER (Black Thursday) JB361 OF-B
Flack's crew was lost less than a month later on 6 January 1944. All are buried in the Berlin 1939-45 Cemetery except R G Boston who became a PoW.
Emerson and the rear gunner Geoffrey Wood were killed 21st February 1944.
CREW
Pilot: P/O Victor Samuel Flack LANCASTER (Black Thursday) JB361 OF-B
Flack's crew was lost less than a month later on 6 January 1944. All are buried in the Berlin 1939-45 Cemetery except R G Boston who became a PoW.
Emerson and the rear gunner Geoffrey Wood were killed 21st February 1944.
CREW
Killed 6-Jan-44
2nd Pilot: F/L Roderick Stanley Emerson
Killed 21-Feb-44, crash at Bourn,
buried in Cambridge City Cemetery
Flight Engineer: Sgt John Alfred Hare
Killed 6-Jan-44
Navigator: F/O Kenneth Peter Rand
Killed 6-Jan-44
Bomb Aimer: F/O RG Boston
POW
W/Op: W/Op: Robert Ferguson
Killed 6-Jan-44
Mid-Upper Gunner: F/S Harry Norman Dunnett
Killed 6-Jan-44
Rear Gunner: F/S Geoffrey Woods, "Geoff"
Killed 21-Feb-44, crash at Bourn,
buried in Cambridge City Cemetery
Victor Samuel Flack, Roderick Stanley Emerson, John Alfred Hare, Kenneth Peter Rand, RG Boston, Robert Ferguson, Harry Norman Dunnett, Geoffrey Woods
DETAILS
This was a very unlucky crew. With the exception of R G Boston, the bomb aimer, who by some miracle survived, the main crew were killed on 6th January 1944 when their Lancaster JB191 was brought down. The rear gunner then was John Roberts.
Geoffrey Wood, the rear gunner on Black Thursday, had joined Emerson's crew and was killed with him on 21st February 1944.
Left: Geoff Wood
Geoffrey Wood, the rear gunner on Black Thursday, had joined Emerson's crew and was killed with him on 21st February 1944.
Left: Geoff Wood
Aircrew on Berlin op - December 16/17 1943
