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Crashed Lancaster Bomber
No.207 Squadron, 5 Group Bomber Command Lancaster mkIII EM-K EE173 piloted by Pilot officer Richard (Dick) Burnet took off from RAF Spilsby at 1720 on 30 January 1944 for a raid on Berlin. Within moments of bombing and while clearing the target area at 19,500 ft, the aircraft was raked by cannon fire from a night fighter. The port wing was set on fire and the order to abandon was given and the aircraft crashed into the Krumme Lanke.

Sgt Arthur Pulman, the Rear Gunner, who was killed in the engagement, went down with the aircarft and has no known grave. He is commemorated on Panel 236 of the Air Forces' Memorial at Runnymede. The rest of the crew were taken as POWs.

The rest of the crew were:


 * Sergeant G. Read
 * Sergeant Kenneth W. C. Brown (Navigator)
 * Sergeant G. M. Gibb
 * Sergeant Laurie. J. Barnes (Wireless Operator)
 * Sergeant Raymond Roland Hawkins

Recovery of parts of the wreckage started in December 1970. Engine and propellor parts were recovered in January 1971.

RAF Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, 1944 (WR Chorley, Midland Counties Publishing)