CAPTAIN: PENNY
LANCASTER Y-YORK - JB218
Shot down 23/24/11/1943
CREW
Pilot: F/Sgt J.A.Penny
Became PoW
Flight Engineer: Sgt Richard Thomas Fathers, 1803112
Killed, commemorated on Runnymede Memorial
Navigator: James.Graham, 655372
Killed, commemorated on Runnymede Memorial
Bomb Aimer: Robert Allison Campbell, 978248
Killed, commemorated on Runnymede Memorial
W/Op: John Robert Cowen, 1036940
Killed, commemorated on Runnymede Memorial
M/U Gunner: F/Sgt Richard Sidney Mortham, 1332299
Killed, buried in Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Rear Gunner: F/Sgt Paul William Dries, RCAF, R/152345
Killed, commemorated on Runnymede Memorial
LANCASTER Y-YORK - JB218
Shot down 23/24/11/1943
CREW
Pilot: F/Sgt J.A.Penny
Became PoW
Flight Engineer: Sgt Richard Thomas Fathers, 1803112
Killed, commemorated on Runnymede Memorial
Navigator: James.Graham, 655372
Killed, commemorated on Runnymede Memorial
Bomb Aimer: Robert Allison Campbell, 978248
Killed, commemorated on Runnymede Memorial
W/Op: John Robert Cowen, 1036940
Killed, commemorated on Runnymede Memorial
M/U Gunner: F/Sgt Richard Sidney Mortham, 1332299
Killed, buried in Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Rear Gunner: F/Sgt Paul William Dries, RCAF, R/152345
Killed, commemorated on Runnymede Memorial
DETAILS
It was most unusual for the crew to be killed and the pilot to survive - the pilot chop rate was abnormally high because they would always be the last to abandon a stricken aircraft. Extraordinary flukes of chance did happen, but it is not known how Penny survived the loss of the aircraft.
Ken Smith, the son of Sid Smith who was a flight engineer on the Mansbridge crew shot down the following year, wrote: "When Dad turned up at Stalag Luft 6 Heyderkrug, Flt Sgt Penny, whom he knew well, was standing at the wire and called out to greet Dad on his arrival!"
It was most unusual for the crew to be killed and the pilot to survive - the pilot chop rate was abnormally high because they would always be the last to abandon a stricken aircraft. Extraordinary flukes of chance did happen, but it is not known how Penny survived the loss of the aircraft.
Ken Smith, the son of Sid Smith who was a flight engineer on the Mansbridge crew shot down the following year, wrote: "When Dad turned up at Stalag Luft 6 Heyderkrug, Flt Sgt Penny, whom he knew well, was standing at the wire and called out to greet Dad on his arrival!"
Left: Paul Dries, the rear gunner, who was killed
J A Penny, Richard Thomas Fathers, Graham James, Robert Allison Campbell, John Robert Cowen, Richard Sidney Mortham, Paul William Dries
Battle of Berlin - November 1943-March 1944
