ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 192625
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Date: | Thursday 17 June 1943 |
Time: | 01:45 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 12 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ED629 |
MSN: | PH-K |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Grote Heide, Neerpelt, Limburg -
Belgium
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Wickenby |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Major Günther Radusch of the Stab II./NJG 3 (detached to 3./NJG 1), flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Venlo airfield, the Netherlands.
Takeoff time: 22:57
Crew:
Pilot Sgt Arthur C. Aylard, Flight Engineer Sgt Joseph Scott, Navigator Sgt Thomas Alexander, Bomb Aimer Sgt Maurice Roy Williams, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Sgt Henry Joseph Patrick Lackey, Air Gunner Sgt John Wilfred Noel Westlake and Air Gunner Sgt Rex Swain.
More details: http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ED629
R.I.P.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ED629 http://www.luchtvaarterfgoed.be/content/monument-bemanning-lancaster-iii-ed629-ph-k
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
30 August 1944 |
PD273 |
12 Sqn RAF |
2 |
Wofelsgrund, Stettin, Pommern (now Międzyodrze, Szczecin, PL) |
|
w/o |
17 March 1945 |
PD275 |
12 Sqn RAF |
6 |
Asbach |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Jan-2017 10:52 |
gerard57 |
Added |
14-Jun-2018 17:20 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
14-Jun-2018 17:21 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Destination airport] |
19-Oct-2018 18:46 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
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