CREW MEMBER PROFILE

Surname:

POLLITT

First Name/s:

Alan James

Service No/s:

1624430

Service:

RAFVR

Branch:

Air Gunner

Awards:

Return

SERVICE RECORDS

Date

Event

Aircraft Flown

07 Dec 1943

Joined No. 576 Squadron, ‘B’ Flight, Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire.

Lancaster

20 Dec 1943

Faied to return.

Lancaster

576 Squadron FLYING RECORDS

Date

Aircraft

Code

Flight Details

T/O

Land

Flt Time

Crew

20 Dec 1943

W4123

UL-R2

FRANKFURT

1700

FTR

nk

P1   Flt Sgt F. Ball
P2   
FE   Sgt W. Dickie
AB   Sgt L. Balich
NAV  Sgt L.P.E. Allais
WOp  Sgt F.H. Gage
MUG  Sgt A.J. Pollitt
RG   Sgt J.E. Redmond RCAF

NOTES:

Target: Built-up area Load: 1x 4,000lb 'Cookie', 56x 30lb and 1,122x 4lb incendiaries Shot down over Sint-Pieters-Voeren, NE of Liege, by a Bf-110 flown by Oblt. Werner Baake of 3./NJG 1 from Venlo airfield. The aircraft crashed in the Red Wood, 1km S of De Planck at 1930 Buried in Haverlee War Cemetery, Coll. Grave 5.B.5-7 ‘GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS’

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