Page 5 - Albert Delieu

It is suspected that the dead crew members including Albert were buried near the crash site of
their Lancaster. Post war their remains were located by Allied search crews and the bodies
exhumed and reburied at the Commonwealth War graves Cemetery at Dürnbach near Bad Tölz in
Bavaria, Germany.

This site was chosen by officers of the British Army and Air Force in conjunction with the American
Occupation Forces, in whose zone Dürnbach lay. The great majority of those buried here are
airmen shot down over Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Austria, Hessen and Thuringia, who were brought
from their scattered graves by the Army Graves Service.
Albert married Jesse (nee Pemberton) a nurse, on the 16 December 1944, their marriage was
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less than three months old before Jesse was widowed. After the war Jesse married an American
citizen and went back to America with him.

Albert’s operational sorties with 150 Squadron, December 1944 - February 1945

Date Destination Aircraft Duration
(hrs:mins)
12/12/44 Essen PB781 (IQ-V) 5:54
15/12/44 Ludwigshaffen PB746 (IQ-Q?) 6:38
17/12/44 Ulm PB738 (IQ-O) 7:57
22/12/44 Koblenz PB780 (IQ-T) 6:45
28/12/44 Bonn PB780 (IQ-T) 5:51
31/12/44 Osterfeld PB780 (IQ-T) 5:40

28/1/45 Stuttgart PB780 (IQ-T) 7:20

1/2/45 Ludwigshaven PB784 (IQ-M?) 6:35
2/2/45 Wiesbaden PB780 (IQ-T) 6:52
7/2/45 Kleve PB780 (IQ-T) 5:18
8/2/45 Politz PB780 (IQ-T) 9:12
14/2/45 Chemnitz PB780 (IQ-T) 8:41
20/2/45 Dortmund NN752 (IQ-R) 7:08
21/2/45 Duisberg PB780 (IQ-T) 6:32
23/2/45 Pforzheim PB780 (IQ-T) Did not
return

The Webmasters would like to thank Alan Girling, son of 150 Squadron Flight Engineer, Flight
Sergeant Dennis Girling for assisting in this research.