156 Squadron Mission Details
Target: Essen
Mission Date: 25/07/1943
Mission Comments: 21 aircraft on operations - 13 took of and 1 returned early. 1 failed to return (F/O HUDSON and crew)
Rego Type Captain Departed Over Target Height Returned Flight Time Comments ORB Slide
JA697  Lancaster III  F/O PRICHARD  22:02      01:02    Task abandoned. Returned early, Pilot sick, intercomm U/S and rear turret U/S.  179 
ED829  Lancaster III  S/L GRANT  22:09  0.41  18500  02:13      179 
W4924  Lancaster  W/O DENWOOD  22:11  0.37  19000  02:10      179 
EE173  Lancaster  F/Sgt ROSE  22:25  0.52  19500  02:29      179 
ED859  Lancaster  S/L MANSFIELD  22:27  1.08  19000  02:45      179 
ED856  Lancaster  F/Lt YOUNG  22:29  0.45  19000  02:33      179 
JA709  Lancaster III  F/O CRAMPTON  22:30  1.05  20000  02:54      179 
JA702  Lancaster III  F/Sgt WILKINS  22:35  1.03  20000  02:40      179 
ED474  Lancaster III  P/O THOMSON  22:37  1.05  19000  02:47      179 
ED734  Lancaster III  F/O HUDSON  22:41          T/o 2241 Warboys. Badly shot about over the target by a night fighter, and then attacked for a second time by Maj Werner Streib, I./NJG1crashing 0140 roughly 1 km S of Nistelrode (Noord Brabant), 6 km SSE of Oss, Holland. Those who died are buried in Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery. Their average age was 21.  179 
ED598  Lancaster III  F/O SHANAHAN  22:01  00.43  21,000  02:31      180 
ED822  Lancaster III  F/O WRIGHT  22:39  01.07  19,000  02:56      180 
JA694  Lancaster III  P/O RYAN  22:40  01.08  17,500  02:50      180