ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231802
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Date: | Sunday 20 February 1944 |
Time: | 03:30 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 166 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | DV220 |
MSN: | AS-J |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 3 km southeast of Krahne, Kloster Lehnin, Brandenburg -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Kirmington, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:21 hrs for an operation against aircraft assembly factories at Leipzig in Sachsen.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Albert Walter of the 1./NJG 6, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Stendal airfield in Sachsen-Anhalt.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/allan-frances-frederick-george.html Google Maps
History of this aircraft
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31 December 1944 |
ME647 |
166 Sqn RAF |
7 |
Rimburgerweg road, Eygelshoven, Limburg |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Dec-2019 10:51 |
TigerTimon |
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