Warren Henry Pitts

Lancaster PA259 227 Sqn Take off RAF Balderton 23:39 (20/3/1945) on a mission to Bohlen to attack synthetic-oil plant, on the feint attack on Halle, intercepted and shot down by a night fighter possibly Hptm Johannes Hager NJG1. PA259 disintegrated and fell in the area of Eschwege. F/Lt King was not listed to be on the night's operation having done 7 ops in 11 days including 3 nights in a row; however another pilot asked him to fly instead. The crew took along a ‘second dickey’ (new pilot) F/O Pitts an old school friend of King’s.

F/O Warren Pitts RAAF
Sgt Robert Fytton
Sgt Leonard Baxter RCAF
Sgt Lewis Marshall All killed

F/Lt Ray King RAAF POW Stalag XIII-D - Stalag VII-A
F/O William Neilson POW Stalag Luft I
F/Sgt W Roots POW Stalag XIII-D
F/Sgt B Long RAAF POW Stalag XIII-D.

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