On 12 October 1944 Lent and his crew were interred in a single grave in the military cemetery at Stade.
Glavni govornik na pogrebu je bil "Reichsmarschall" Hermann Göring, medtem ko so častno stražo sestavljali letalski asi in nosilci viteškega križca železnega križca: "Oberstleutnant" Günther Radusch, "Oberstleutnant" Hans-Joachim Jabs, "Major" Rudolf Schoenert, "Hauptmann" Heinz Strüning, "Hauptmann" Heinz-Martin Hadeball in "Hauptmann" Paul Zorner; slednji so tudi nosili njegovo krsto.