Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. McAllister was killed when Avro Lancaster I R5743 OL-K of 83 Sqn was lost on a mission to Wilhemshaven. The Lancaster was lost without trace, and thought to have come down in the sea, with the loss of all seven crew members.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3, page 46
Tony Hibberd has added the following:
Lancaster R5743 OL-K had departed Wyton at 1816 for Ops Wilhelmshaven
It was intercepted at 1600M over the North Sea nr Heligoland by a Night-Fighter captained by Oblt Hans Gref (IV/NJG3) and shot down at 2032 for his 3rd Abschuss
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part 1 Dr Theo Boiten
John McAllister is remembered in Cambois on C6.03
