Flight Lieutenant Peter Hood, Lancaster pilot shot down and captured during a raid over Nuremberg – obituary
He was held in Stalag Luft I on the Baltic coast and after the German guards left on April 30 1945 the Soviet troops arrived to take over
Peter Hook
Flight Lieutenant Peter Hood, who has died aged 98, was the pilot of a Lancaster bomber shot down during a raid on Nuremberg which resulted in Bomber Command’s heaviest loss of the war.
With the moon almost full, the bomber crews were not expecting to fly on the night of March 30/31 1944. However, based on a weather forecast that there would be some cloud cover, it was decided to attack Nuremberg, a city of huge symbolic importance to Nazi Germany.