Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Fulton was killed when Avro Lancaster I LM126 AS-A2 of 166 Squadron was lost on a mission to bomb rail facilities at Versailles. The Lancaster was shot down by a Luftwaffe night fighter, and crashed at Bois d'Arcy, near Versailles, with the loss of all seven crew members.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1, page 266.
Tony Hibberd has submitted the following:
Lancaster LM126 AS-A2 had departed Kirmington at 0010 for Ops Versailles.
There are two possible claims for this loss;
It was either intercepted at 1500M, W of Paris by a Night-Fighter captained by Ofw Herbert Altner (VIII/NJG5) and shot down at 0222 for his 6th Abschuss
Or
It was intercepted at 800M in the Versailles area by a Night-Fighter captained by Ofw Richard Rother (VI/NJG1) and shot down at 0233 for his 1st Abschuss
Nacht Jagd War Diaries, Part 2; Dr Theo Boiten
Joseph Fulton is remembered in Blackhill on B145.01
