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William Richard Tyrie

Name : William Richard Tyrie Died : 2nd January 1944 Service Number : 1385473 Awards : Distinguished Flying Medal

Sergeant William Tyrie - DFM was serving as Wireless Operator on board Lancaster MK.III JB-532 coded LE-X for an operation to Berlin on January 2, 1944. The aircraft was hit by flak and crashed near Grossbeuthen, all of the crew were killed and are buried in the Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery.

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William Tyrie received his Distinguished Flying medal while serving with 619 squadron, the citation reads: TYRIE William Richard Sergeant 619 Squadron London Gazette DFM 10/12/1943 Wireless Operator/Air Gunner.Press Release "Sergeant Tyrie has taken part in many operational sorties against important German targets.An outstanding Wireless Operator, he has consistently displayed coolness and courage of a high degree. In October 1943,the aircraft in which he was flying was completely lost over enemy territory with no instruments available but, with great skill and initiative, this airman succeeded in guiding the bomber safely back to base."

Known Service Details :
Squadron	Rank	Start of Service	End of Service	Known Dates	Aircraft	Airframes	Notes
No.630 Sqn RAF	Sgt	unknown	unknown	02nd January 1944	Lancaster	JB532	Sergeant William Tyrie - DFM was serving as Wireless Operator on board Lancaster MK.III JB-532 coded LE-X for an operation to Berlin on January 2, 1944. The aircraft was hit by flak and crashed near Grossbeuthen, all of the crew were killed and are buried in the Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery Killed in Action

Aircraft for : William Richard Tyrie
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Lancaster Click the name above to see prints featuring Lancaster aircraft. Manufacturer : Avro Production Began : 1942 Retired : 1963 Number Built : 7377	Lancaster The Avro Lancaster arose from the avro Manchester and the first prototype Lancaster was a converted Manchester with four engines. The Lancaster was first flown in January 1941, and started operations in March 1942. By March 1945 The Royal Air Force had 56 squadrons of Lancasters with the first squadron equipped being No.44 Squadron. During World War Two the Avro Lancaster flew 156,000 sorties and dropped 618,378 tonnes of bombs between 1942 and 1945. Lancaster Bomberss took part in the devastating round-the-clock raids on Hamburg during Air Marshall Harris' Operation Gomorrah in July 1943. Just 35 Lancasters completed more than 100 successful operations each, and 3,249 were lost in action. The most successful survivor completed 139 operations, and the Lancaster was scrapped after the war in 1947. A few Lancasters were converted into tankers and the two tanker aircraft were joined by another converted Lancaster and were used in the Berlin Airlift, achieving 757 tanker sorties. A famous Lancaster bombing raid was the 1943 mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley. The operation was carried out by 617 Squadron in modified Mk IIIs carrying special drum shaped bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis. Also famous was a series of Lancaster attacks using Tallboy bombs against the German battleship Tirpitz, which first disabled and later sank the ship. The Lancaster bomber was the basis of the new Avro Lincoln bomber, initially known as the Lancaster IV and Lancaster V. (Becoming Lincoln B1 and B2 respectively.) Their Lancastrian airliner was also based on the Lancaster but was not very successful. Other developments were the Avro York and the successful Shackleton which continued in airborne early warning service up to 1992.

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