ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 212045
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Date: | Sunday 13 June 1943 |
Time: | 01:30 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 50 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ED429 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | between Gerthe and Bövinghausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Hit by heavy Flak units, blew up between Gerthe (Bochum) and Bövinghausen (Dortmund).
Target: Bochum
Call Sign: VN-
Takeoff time: 23:01
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer John Michael McCrossan DFM RAFVR 146317 [Killed] (NCO:1371558 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 13 July, 1943)
Flight Engineer : Sergeant John Thomas Wilkinson DFM RAFVR 935356 [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant David McD. Buchan RAFVR 1345035 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant George "Angus" L Stewart RAF [PoW, repatriated]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Joseph Keenan Morgan RAFVR 1333266 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Harold Raymond Stone RAFVR 933382 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant John Aitken RAFVR 1110660 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ED429 Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-Jun-2018 07:33 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
03-Nov-2018 20:26 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
12-Jun-2023 06:50 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [[Operator, Departure airport, Operator]] |
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