Accident Avro Lancaster Mk III JB299,
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Date:Friday 21 January 1944
Time:22:28 claim
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:97 (The Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF
Registration: JB299
MSN: OF-W
Fatalities:Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Schmölau, Dähre, Sachsen-Anhalt -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Bourn, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Operation - Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt.

The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Major Helmut Lent of the Stab/NJG 3, who was flying Bf 110 G-4 D5+CA from Stade airfield in Niedersachsen.

Crew:-
Pilot : F/L Frank James Roberts DFC RAFVR 149622 (NCO:917850) [Killed]
F/E : Sgt Edward James Devine RAFVR 1891641 [Killed]
Nav : F/S Ronald Dudley DFM RAFVR 1388344 [Killed]
B/A : F/S George Young DFM RAFVR 1479621 [Killed]
W/Op/AG : F/S Francis Martin RAFVR 1342599 [Killed]
M/U : F/S Peter Andrew Marsh RAAF Aus/417311 [Killed]
R/G : W/O2 William Alfred Parsley RCAF R/135211 [Killed]

All buried in the Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany, GPS 52.507028 / 13.222336

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JB299
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
26 November 1943 JB221 97 (Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF 7 near Brandau, Modautal, Hessen w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
09-Dec-2019 20:33 TigerTimon Added
09-Dec-2019 20:34 TigerTimon Updated [Narrative]
09-Dec-2019 20:37 TigerTimon Updated [Narrative]
22-Dec-2019 09:32 Nepa Updated [Operator, Operator]

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