Accident Avro Lancaster Mk III PB208,
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Date:Monday 24 July 1944
Time:02:00 claim
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:619 Sqn RAF
Registration: PB208
MSN: PG-S
Fatalities:Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:North Sea, probably southwest of the island of Sylt -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Dunholme Lodge
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Took off from RAF Dunholme Lodge at 23:00 hrs for an operation against the naval bases at Kiel.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Heinz-Rudolf Malowitz of the 9./NJG 3, who was flying Bf 110 G-4 D5+FT from Schleswig airfield.
The Lanc came down in the North Sea.
WO2 Aumell RCAF is buried in Denmark at Sondre Nissum Churchyard, 9 km NE of Ulfborg. The other are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial:

Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer John Parker RAFVR 173134 [Killed] (NCO:1390964 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 18 April, 1944)
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Norman Mackenzie Rice RAFVR 1821876 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer George Alan Grigg RAFVR 176583 [Killed] (NCO:1389586 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 04 July, 1944)
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer Allan Daniel Aumell RCAF J/89210 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant William Arthur Sharp RAFVR 1575581 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant James Broll RAFVR 1690453 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Allan Dickson RAFVR 1564075 [Killed]

Sources:

Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 347.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.flensted.eu.com/1944087.shtml
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
22 June 1944 ND986 619 Sqn RAF 7 Rhine river at Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
19 September 1944 PB405 619 Sqn RAF 8 between Roggel and Heythuysen, Limburg w/o
6 November 1944 LM742 619 Sqn RAF 2 Wettringen, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
25-Aug-2013 21:07 JINX Added
09-Jan-2016 10:01 JIXN Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
26-Jun-2016 13:52 Red Dragon Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
09-Oct-2018 18:19 Nepa Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Operator]
23-Oct-2020 12:16 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative]
23-Oct-2020 13:07 TigerTimon Updated [Location]
23-Jul-2023 07:08 Rob Davis Updated [[Location]]

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