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Flight Sergeant

David Lorimer

Service number 552531
Military unit 61 Sqdn Royal Air Force
Address Unknown
Date of birth
Date of death 04 Jun 1942 (Age unknown)
Place of birth Unknown
Employment, education or hobbies

Pre War RAF

Family history

Unknown

Military history

Lancaster R5627 61 Sqn RAF Syerston Mission to Bremen. Aircraft lost to Bf110 night fighter piloted by Lt Hans Konig 8/NJG3 (KIA 24/5/44) and by Flak of the 8. Flak-Division; crashed southern perimeter of Bad Zwischenahn airfield near Oldenburg.

Returning aircraft reported raid as indifferent but German sources reported damage to U Boat yard, Focke Wulf factory, dock area and pier including damage to warehouses and destroyer Z25. Of 170 aircraft on the raid 11 failed to return.

P/O Ronald Archilbald
F/Lt George Beattie
Sgt Ian Pratt
Sgt Jack Wallis
F/Sgt Maurice Denison - Also killed.

Sgt P Holmes POW No 509 Stalag Luft III - Stalag Luft VI - Stalag 357.

Extra information

1940 DFM awarded while serving with 44 Sqdn. Hampden bomber he was in was attacked by a Messerschmidt Bf109 over Hamburg. Despite the attacker’s considerable advantages in both firepower and agility he managed to shoot it down before it had done much damage to his own aircraft.

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