ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 220275
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Date: | Saturday 26 June 1943 |
Time: | 02:17 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R5740 |
MSN: | KM-O |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea 50 km W of Texel, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Dunholme Lodge, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:51 for an operation to Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Franz Buschmann of the 12./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Bergen or Leeuwarden airfield.
Crew: http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=R5740
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=R5740
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
2 March 1944 |
ND566 |
44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
1 |
near Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg |
|
w/o |
22 June 1944 |
ME804 |
44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
8 |
Lutselus, Diepenbeek, Limburg |
|
w/o |
22 March 1945 |
PB251 |
44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
7 |
Bunsoh |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
28-Dec-2018 20:06 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
29-Dec-2018 19:22 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
15-Jan-2019 12:22 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
15-Jun-2022 05:38 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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