Final Mission
On 21st December 1944 NG258 took off at 16.58 hrs from East Kirkby to take part on an attack on an oil plant in Politz. On the return journey home, a blanket of thick fog covered most of Southern England and the pilot was instructed to land elsewhere instead of his home base. The Lancaster and crew crashed into a hill near Scanfield farm, Winceby, Lincolnshire at 02:50hours. Sgt. Pooley was injured and the only one to survive the crash.
ND258 (LE-?) was a Mk I Lancaster crewed by the following:-
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