ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231276
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Date: | Friday 21 January 1944 |
Time: | 23:15 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 156 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JA912 |
MSN: | GT-O |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Neuermark-Lübars, Sachsen-Anhalt -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Warboys, Huntingdonshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:52 hrs for an operation to Magdeburg in Sachsen-Anhalt.
The aircraft was damaged by night fighter pilot Major Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein of the Stab/NJG 2, who was flying Ju 88 C-6 R4+XM from Deelen airfield in the Netherlands.
In return, rear gunner F/Lt. T.R. Thompson, who was wounded, managed to bring down the attacker. The crew all abandoned the aircraft and were taken prisoner of war.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JA912 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
3 January 1944 |
JB310 |
156 Sqn RAF |
7 |
Missing - Berlin operation |
|
w/o |
31 March 1945 |
PB517 |
156 Sqn RAF |
8 |
Near Stemmen, 15 km NE of Rotenburg (Wümme) (Niedersachsen) * |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
09-Dec-2019 18:16 |
TigerTimon |
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