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Date: | Thursday 8 February 1945 |
Time: | 00:08 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 50 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | PD316 |
MSN: | VN-A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Ladbergen area (Nordrhein-Westfalen) -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Skellingthrope |
Destination airport: | RAF Skellingthorpe |
Narrative:Takeoff at 20:59 hrs for a bombing operation against the Dortmund-Ems canal at Ladbergen.
Hit by Hauptmann Gerhard Raht of Stab I./NJG 2, flying Ju 88 G-6 4R+AB from Twente airfield in the Netherlands.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant John Boyle RAFVR 184181 (NCO:1425196 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 17 October, 1944) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Pilot Officer Gerald Ansell RAFVR 198616 (NCO:1052047 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 24 July, 1945) [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant Stanley Hoggett RAFVR 1569216 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant H R Hand RAF [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Deryck Grenville Rodwell RAFVR 1333583 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant R G Turner RAF [PoW]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Peter Richard Jones RAFVR 1808439 [Killed]
Those who perished rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1945
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1945 Page 69
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/boyle-john.html-john.html Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
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29-Aug-2013 16:46 |
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25-May-2016 15:15 |
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31-Oct-2018 14:33 |
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30-Jun-2022 08:54 |
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07-Feb-2024 07:56 |
Rob Davis |
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