The crew of JB 607, L for leader, a Lancaster aircraft of No. 460 Squadron RAAF of Bomber ...

The crew of JB 607, L for leader, a Lancaster aircraft of No. 460 Squadron RAAF of Bomber Command, based at RAF Station Binbrook, consists of half of Scottish and half of Australian personnel. Hence the nose art emblem showing a kangaroo wearing flying boots and playing lustily on the tartan bagpipes. In the pilot's seat is a Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) service instrument maker u/t, Aircraftwoman M. Turner, of Devon. The aircraft crashed on 29 December 1943 at 22.30h over Kerkrade in the Netherlands. All crew but one died. The plane started from Binbrook at 17.03h for a raid on Berlin. The plane was attacked on their return flight by a night fighter over Aachen, Germany, and it crashed in nearby Kerkrade in the courtyard of the monastery of the friars of Sint Franciscus in Kerkrade-Bleijerheide. The survivor was 413435 Flight Sergeant Francis John (Frank) Seery who spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of war at Stalag IV d near Torgau by the Elbe River.