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Date: | Wednesday 30 August 1944 |
Time: | 00:48 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 50 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ED588 |
MSN: | VN-G |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Höjalen, 4km W Vittsjö, 21 km NNW Hässleholm (Skane) -
Sweden
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Skellingthorpe |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 20:58 hrs for an operation against Königsberg, caught fire and crashed in Sweden.
The aircraft was intercepted by Major Werner Husemann of the Stab I./NJG 3, who had taken off from Schleswig airfield (Germany) at 23:20 hrs, in Junkers Ju 88G D5+XB.
Pre crash fire with explosion. With 126 missions, ED588 run out of luck and crashed with full bomb load in Sweden. Crew buried in Pålsjö Cemetery, Helsingborg:
Fg Off A H Carver (Killed On Active Service)
Sgt R H Clifford (Killed On Active Service)
Sgt F G Plowman (Killed On Active Service)
Sgt D A MacDonald RCAF (Killed On Active Service)
Sgt E Mutch (Killed On Active Service)
Sgt W R Campbell (Killed On Active Service)
Sgt R W Bysouth (Killed On Active Service)
Sources:
- Falkenbergs Museum/Lars Wikander: De kom aldrog hem (1994)
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft EA100 - EZ999, published 2010
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/carver-anthony.html info and photos
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 401.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
16 August 1942 |
R5735 |
50 Sqn RAF |
5 |
field near Winnekendonk, Kevelaer, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
13-Sep-2011 03:20 |
Uli Elch |
Added |
28-Dec-2011 15:03 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative] |
26-Feb-2014 11:43 |
Masen63 |
Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
04-Jul-2016 15:47 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
12-Nov-2018 18:51 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
17-Jun-2021 18:35 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Date, Time, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |