Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
W/O Tate was killed when Avro Lancaster III PB245 PG-Z of 619 Squadron was lost on a mission to attack a railway junction at Revigny. It is believed hat the Lancaster was shot down by a Luftwaffe night fighter, crashing at Ussy-sur-Marne 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 338
Tony Hibberd has added the following:
Lancaster PB245 PG-Z had departed Dunholme Lodge at 2258 for Ops Revigny.
It was intercepted at 2300M over Jouarre, nr Paris by a Night-Fighter captained by Nacht-Jagd “Experten” Hptm Heinz-Horst Zissbach (V/NJG2) and shot down at 0112 for his 23rd Abschuss.
Nacht Jagd War Diaries Vol 2; Dr Theo Boiten
John Tate is remembered in Burnopfield on B155.01
