ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231870
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Date: | Thursday 24 February 1944 |
Time: | 22:22 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 57 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JB565 |
MSN: | DX-I |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | between Romanswiller and Crastatt, Bas-Rhin (67), Grand Est -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF East Kirkby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 18:41 hrs for an operation to Schweinfurt in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Fritz Schellwat of the 6./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield in Belgium.
For the crew, see France-Crashes 39-45.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=973 Google Maps
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