Flight Sergeant Summers of 189 Squadron, was killed when Avro Lancaster I PB691 CA-O was lost on return from a mission to Politz, Poland. It crashed into high ground near Mandel, Norway, near a local Norwegian resistance base. The resistance decided to dismantle the Lancaster and hide it – the Germans had no idea a bomber had crashed. The seven crew were buried in marshland near the crash site, and were re-interred in Aseral Churchyard in 1945.

Also killed was Flight Lt G B White of Amble.

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 516

Acknowledgments: Simon Glancey

The crash in which F.Sgt Summers was killed
The CWGC entry for Flight Sergeant Summers