Date:	Saturday 22 April 1944
Time:	23:32 LT
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	7 Sqn RAF
Registration:	ND592
MSN:	MG-J
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Maizy (Aisne) -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:	RAF Oakington

Narrative:
Coded MG-J: Airborne 21:24 22 Apr 1944 from Oakington, tasked to bomb the railway yards at Laon. Shot down by Unteroffizier Konrad Beyer of the 1./NJG 4, who was flying from Florennes airfield in Belgium; crashed and exploded at Maizy (Aisne), a village on the S bank of the Aisne approx. 28 km SSE of Laon. All are buried in Maizy Churchyard:

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Percy Ronald Aslett RAF 54222 (NCO:547488 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 14 March, 1944) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Flight Sergeant James Wilfred Bott RAFVR 1765035 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Hugh Boys Cooper RAFVR 172104 (NCO:926206 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 04 April, 1944) [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Thomas Horton RAFVR 1545049 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant Laurence Alfred Scott RAFVR 1382694 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Francis William Ingham RAFVR 2216043 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Pilot Officer Leon Francis George Noakes DFC RAFVR 171457 (NCO:903074 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 14 March, 1944) [Killed]

- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft NA100 - NZ999, published 1992
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 183.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

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31 August 1943	JA936	7 Sqn RAF	5	Brüggen, Nordrhein-Westfalen		w/o
16 December 1943	JB543	7 Sqn RAF	5	Wilsum, GB, Niedersachsen		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
04-Oct-2011 23:58	whiteshark	Added
26-Dec-2011 05:34	Uli Elch	Updated [Registration]
26-Dec-2011 05:51	Uli Elch	Updated [Registration, Cn, Narrative]
26-Dec-2011 07:01	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type]
08-Jan-2012 11:13	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source]
30-Jan-2012 00:41	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
29-Aug-2013 17:34	JINX	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Narrative]
10-Jun-2016 07:37	Anon.	Updated [Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative]
12-Nov-2018 16:58	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]
15-May-2021 19:09	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Source, Narrative]
22-Apr-2024 06:43	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]