CAPTAIN: SNELL
LANCASTER M-MOTHER - JB846 On 16/17 December 1943, the first aircraft to land at Bourn
CREW
Pilot: P/O CR Snell
Flight Engineer: Sgt Leslie Thomas Harman
Navigator: P/O L Lintott
Bomb Aimer: P/O NJ Smith
W/Op: Sgt J Grieve
Mid-Upper Gunner: Sgt CJ Green
Rear Gunner: Sgt OD Wood
C R Snell, Leslie Thomas Harman, L Lintott, N J Smith, J Grieve, C J Green, O D Wood, RAF, 635, 97, squadron, Pathfinders
DETAILS
The first safe landing at Bourn on Black Thursday was at twenty-five past eleven, some six hours and twenty minutes after the last of the Lancasters had departed for Germany. Pilot Officer Snell and his crew came in twenty-five minutes before anybody else.
Snell and Smith were Canadians. No other information on this crew at present. It appears that all of them survived the war except Leslie Thomas Harman, who was lost with the Riches crew on 6-7-44 when flying with 635 Squadron.
Snell and Smith were Canadians. No other information on this crew at present. It appears that all of them survived the war except Leslie Thomas Harman, who was lost with the Riches crew on 6-7-44 when flying with 635 Squadron.
The Pathfinder Year - 97 Squadron at Bourn
