ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 220228
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Date: | Wednesday 29 December 1943 |
Time: | 19:15 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | DS718 |
MSN: | EQ-R |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Wietmarschen, GB, Niedersachsen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 17:22 for an operation to Berlin.
Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of the 12./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Leeuwarden airfield, the Netherlands.
Crew: http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=DS718
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=DS718
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
20 February 1944 |
LL720 |
408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF |
7 |
Westerschelde off Paal, Graauw, Zeeland |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Dec-2018 18:02 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
28-Dec-2018 19:43 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
23-Jun-2022 05:45 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
23-Jun-2022 08:31 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
25-Jun-2022 04:05 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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