Accident Avro Lancaster Mk III ED629,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 192625
 
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Date:Thursday 17 June 1943
Time:01:45
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
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/timeContributorUpdates
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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