ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 218558
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Date: | Friday 26 November 1943 |
Time: | 22:56 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 57 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JB485 |
MSN: | DX-L |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Bookholzberg, Ganderkesee, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF East Kirkby |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hans-Joachim Witzleb of the Stab III./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Twente airfield, the Netherlands.
Also coned by searchlights and claimed by heavy Flak.
Target: Berlin
Takeoff time: 17:25
Crew: http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JB485
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JB485
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
22 June 1944 |
LM580 |
57 Sqn RAF |
1 |
Asch, Limburg |
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w/o |
6 December 1944 |
NG199 |
57 Sqn RAF |
7 |
Am Dreisberg (wooded hillside), Mornshausen, Gladenbach, Hessen |
|
w/o |
17 December 1944 |
SW245 |
57 Sqn RAF |
7 |
English Channel off Dieppe (Seine-Maritime département) |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Nov-2018 08:15 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
27-Nov-2018 19:34 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
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