Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt Whitelaw was the rear gunner of Avro Lancaster III ND707 AS-E of 166 Squadron, which was lost with all seven crew members on a mission to bomb the Wintershall synthetic oil plant at Lutzkendorf, Germany.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1945; W.R. Chorley; 1998; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 92 X, page 153
Tony Hibberd has added the following:
Lancaster ND707 AS-E had departed Kirmington at 2111 for Ops Leuna.
James Dixon Whitelaw is remembered in Ashington on A17.01 (A17.27) and A17.43
