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Old March 17th, 2006, 02:38 PM
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I've been doing a little more digging ( sorry, it's a hobby and I can't help it ! [img]smile.gif[/img] ) and the Lancaster was LL692, one of a batch of 100 Hercules-powered Mk II's built by Armstrong Whitworth at Coventry. Originally with 115 Squadron, it was a survivor of the early-1944 Berlin raids ( as from 2nd January ) and also the notorious Nuremburg Raid of 30/31 March.

The aircraft crashed near the village of St. Cloud-en-Dunois, 8km SSE of Chateaudun.

Above info culled from Chorley, Francis K Mason's 'Avro Lancaster' and an anonymous website which I Googled into....
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