Sgt. Law was serving with 115 Squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster II DS609 KO-M which took off from East Wretham on a mission to Duisburg. The aircraft crashed in the target area, killing all the crew.
On this night, 21 aircraft, with an average crew of 7, were shot down.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3
Tony Hibberd has added the following:
Lancaster DS609 KO-M had departed East Wretham at 0108 for Ops Duisburg
>It was possibly initially coned by 4/Flakscheinw Abt 409
It was possibly then engaged by; 2/schw Flak Abt 305, 3 & 4/schw Flak Abt 394, 1, 3 & 4/lei Flak Abt 883, hit and shot down
The aircraft crashed at Sterkrade at 0303
Nacht Jagd Combat Archive 1943 Part 1 Dr Theo Boiten
Norman Law is remembered in Gateshead on G39.015 and in Newcastle on NUT255 page 49
