ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231715
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Date: | Sunday 20 February 1944 |
Time: | 03:12 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | LL632 |
MSN: | EQ-G |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Tangerhütte, Sachsen-Anhalt -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 00:06 hrs for an operation against aircraft assembly factories at Leipzig in Sachsen.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Werner Hopf of the Stab
V./NJG 5, who was flying Bf 110 G-4 C9+BG from Stendal airfield in Sachsen-Anhalt.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LL632 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
3 January 1944 |
LL631 |
408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF |
2 |
Beelitz area, Brandenburg |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Dec-2019 20:54 |
TigerTimon |
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