Date
Aircraft
Taken off	
Target
Cause
Crashed 
Fate Crew

26.7.1944
LANCASTER PB 252, code M, 300 Sqdn
from Faldingworth
Stuttgart (Germany)
collision
25 km from Loreant (France)
Five crew members perished, two safe.

Lancaster MK III, PB 252, code M, of 300 Squadron took off on 25.7.1944 
from Faldingworth to attack Stuttgart (germany). 

Short before reaching Orleans there was a collision. An aircraft 
boared into the Lancaster with the result a crash 4 km. west of 
the village de Lailly en Val about 25 km. from Orleans.

Buried in Orleans Main Cemetery, France:
plut. r/op. strz. Pagiełło (Pagieła) Albrecht 20st operation
st. sierż. pil. Danieluk Jan 21st operation
ppor. nawig. Galat Kazimierz 20st operation
plut. mech. pokł. Kabulski Jan 17th operation
plut. strz. Czyżyk Henryk Tadeusz 20st operation

Survivors who returned to Great Britain after several weeks:
plut. strz. Wziątek Kazimierz, 17th operation
plut. bomb. Witrylak Zbigniew

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