156 Squadron Mission Details
Target: Koln
Mission Date: 16/06/1943
Mission Comments: 20 aircraft detailed for operations. 18 (seems to be a corrrection to 19?) took off but 3 failed to return (S/L MACKINTOSH, W/O BUSBY, and SGT MILLER & crews).
Rego Type Captain Departed Over Target Height Returned Flight Time Comments ORB Slide
ED969  Lancaster III  S/L WHITE  22:31  1.06  21000  02:51    AACHEN 0117 hrs at 23000 ft A/C seen shot down by flak.  159 
ED599  Lancaster III  P/O SULLIVAN  22:33      01:05    Task abandoned at 0013 hrs 8000 ft. Rear Turret oxygen failed and Gunner collapsed.  159 
ED829  Lancaster III  S/L MANDENO  23:00      03:28    Attacked by E/A at 51.00 N 04.20 E at 0245 hrs, 18000 ft and Port Inner shot up.
Rudder pressure U/S, port tail wheel punctured and S/B inner petrol tank leaking.

[ED]- See DFM citation for F/Sgt Chapman regarding this mission. 		 159 
ED926  Lancaster III  F/O STEWART  23:02      03:45  04:50    159 
ED840  Lancaster III  S/L MACKINTOSH  22:24          T/o 2224 Warboys. Believed shot down by flak, crashing 0105 at Lier (Antwerpen) Belgium. Those who died rest in Schoonselhof Cemetery, Antwerpen. S/L Mackintosh had participated in the Sylt raid on 19-20 March 1940. F/S Monk RCAF came from Sao Paulo in Brazil  160 
EE122  Lancaster III  Sgt. MILLER  22:32          ED: Chorley has this A/C as EE122 ? ORB says ED856 but this a/c is shown twice on this mission

T/o Warboys 2232. Crashed in the vicinity of Munchengladbach, where burials were held on 18 June in the Stadtfriedhof. Since the war F/S Wright RCAF and his RAF Colleagues have been taken to Rheinburg War Cemetery. 		 160 
ED859  Lancaster  F/Lt MOIR  22:36  01.18  4500  03:22      160 
ED863  Lancaster III  W/O BUSBY  22:37          T/o 2237 Warboys. All are buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery. W/O Busby's parents lived at Galagedera, Ceylon.  160 
ED842  Lancaster  F/Lt MACLACHLAN  22:37  1.18  4500  02:24  04:05  Tail Gunner passed out at 15000ft, 0015 hrs through lack of oxygen, and heigh was therefore reduced to 5000 ft and by the time he was brought around it was too late to climb again and continue to Primary Target.
A.G. U/S Attacked Scheveningen 		 160 
ED858  Lancaster III  P/O HUDSON  22:39  01.08  20,000  02:47      160 
ED860  Lancaster  F/Lt YOUNG  22:41      02:10  03:29  Aborted due to severe icing, making front turret and R/T u/s  160 
W4924  Lancaster  Sgt. SLOPER  22:43  01.12  20,000        160 
W4922  Lancaster  F/Sgt RYAN  22:44  01.12  18,400  03:05      160 
ED474  Lancaster III  F/Lt COLDHAM  22:46  01.08    03:01      160 
ED856  Lancaster  F/Sgt WINTERBON              161 
ED885  Lancaster III  F/Sgt MARSON  22:49  1.15          161 
ED822  Lancaster III  W/O BROWN  22:52  1.09  18500  02:57      161 
ED883  Lancaster  F/O SHANAHAN  22:54  1.17  20000  03:21      161 
ED841  Lancaster  F/O PRICHARD  22:56  1.16  19800  02:54      161