Hindringham Flying Officer Pugh KIA 1944

Flight Sergeant H.E.G Pugh

Name: PUGH, HAROLD EDWARD GEORGE
Rank: Flight Sergeant (Air Bomber)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Unit Text: 115 Sqdn.
Age: 24 Date of Death: 19/04/1944
Service No: 658462
Additional information: Son of Harold Bridger Pugh and Elsie Pugh, husband of Olive Edna Pugh, of Hindringham.

Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 95. Cemetery: HINDRINGHAM (ST. MARTIN) CHURCHYARD

www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2763917

Joint Grave with wife in churchyard

Lancaster LL867 Information
Type Lancaster
Serial Number LL867
Squadron 115
X1D A4-J
Operation Rouen
Date 1 18th April 1944
Date 2 19th April 1944

Further Information
" LL867 was a Mk.1 and was delivered to 115 Sqdn ex-75Sqdn 28Mar44. LL867 undertook no operations with No.75Sqdn and was lost on return to base from its first operation with 115 Sqdn. When lost this aircraft had a total of 31 hours. LL867 was one of two 115 Sqdn Lancasters lost on this operation. See: LL667. Airborne 2243 18apr44 from RAF Witchford to attack railway yards. On return to base, and while preparing to land, caught by an Intruder and shot down 0348 19Apr44 near the airfield. F/L Eddy and his Canadian Air Gunner are buried in Cambridge City Cemetery; the others were taken to their home towns.
F/L C.Eddy MBE RNZAF KIA
Sgt W.L.Murphy KIA
F/O A.Smith KIA
F/S H.E.G.Pugh KIA
F/S P.J.E.Maddox KIA
Sgt A.F.Langridge KIA
WO2 H.Bennis RCAF KIA

Refer to LL667 for report on recovery of these two aircraft. "

www.lostbombers.co.uk/bomber.php?id=2585

Extract from Bomber Command Association Newslewtter No.36. Oct98 Over the past few years Barry Aldridge, 3 west End, Ely, Cambs, CB6 3AY had been involved in setting up a display ofWitchford memoribilia in the foyer of the Grovemere building on the former station itself. He says, ""During the research I carried out in setting-up the display , I became interested in the Intruder incident which took place 19Apr44......an enemy Me410, joined the circuit, shooting down two aircraft attempting to land. In Aug95 a group of us recovered the remains of LL667, the first to be shot down at a depth of 16 feet. Amongst other wreckage we retrieved three of the four Bristol Hercules XV1 engines. The starboard inner engine, after eight months of cleaning, is now the centre piece oof the RAF Witchford display"". Ref. the above, take note that there was a big time difference in the times of separate shootings. There is some doubt that the same Intruder was involved with both LL667 and LL687 "
www.lostbombers.co.uk/bomber.php?id=2584

In the Luftwafe records there are two Lancaster claims that might apply

Hauptman Pieter Puttfarken of Lft 3 5/KG51 shot down a Lancaster over the east of England at 02.25. (That would be Central European Time)
Oberlieutnant Breissner of the same unit also claimed a Lancaster at the same time, but gives the location as Cambridge,

www.lesbutler.ip3.co.uk/tony/tonywood.htm

Possibly due to lack of regular night fighters in France, it was decided in April 1944 to employ I, II/KG 51 (Me 410) and I/SKG 10 (Fw 190) on Wilde Sau missions over North Western France in full-moon periods. These units were under operational control of IX Flieger Korps, who was conducting a limited offensive against the UK. This had included some Fernnachtjagd missions by KG 51

Almost all of II./KG 51's missions at this time were intruder and harassment bombing missions over England and especially over Bomber Command operational and training airfields in East Anglia. All this was in support of the main bomber effort under "Unternehmen Steinbock."

SKG 10 was also flying missions against England, usually in diversionary attacks to support the main bomber force but also attacking London on nights when the big bombers did not operate.

forum.12oclockhigh.net/archive/index.php?t-519.html

II./KG 51 was responsible for night intruder missions over the UK under Dietrich Puttfarken during March and April of 1944. On the night of april 11/12, 1944 D Puttfarken shoots down 3 bombers and then on the night of his death shoots down 2 more on the 22/23, April 44. His Me 410 was coded 9K+MN. Black grey, no radar. After losing their gruppenkommandeur the steam ran out of KG 51 and the unit returned to form up with the Me 262 during the rest of 44, a good friend Hans Busch flying one on several missions.

forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1986&p...

Me 410A-1, 420314, PUTTFARKEN, Hptm. Dietrich (F)/Lux, Ofw. Willi (Bf), 5, 5./KG 51, , 9K+MN, , , 22-Apr-44, Both MIA during Fern Nachtjagdeinsatz over North Sea against B-24s.,

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