ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 234549
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| Date: | Tuesday 11 April 1944 |
| Time: | 23:02 claim |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 61 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | JA695 |
| MSN: | QR-W |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Kievermont, Geel, Antwerp -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire |
Takeoff at 20:48 hrs for an operation to Aachen in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Fw. Rauer & Fw. Weber, who had taken off from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands at 22:13 hrs, in He 219 A-0 G9+LL.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Eric Albert Williams DFC RAFVR 157067 (NCO:1381007 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 26 October, 1943) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Arthur Bradley Woodvine RAFVR 778204 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Douglas Richard Beesley RAFVR 1391522 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Alistair David Milne Anderson RAF 1394596 [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant John Lewis Parker RAFVR 1146642 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Spencer Arthur Grafton Gardner RAFVR 1324764 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Edward Parry RAFVR 1052458 [Killed]
The six casualties of this crew were initially buried at Deurne but now lie at the Schoonselhof Cemetery, Belgium
Sources:
https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/lancaster-ja695-bij-geel
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 17 June 1943 | W4798 | 61 Sqn RAF | 7 | near Pattern, Jülich, Nordrhein-Westfalen |  |
w/o |
| 23 September 1944 | ED470 | 61 Sqn RAF | 6 | Hummeloseweg 39, Zelhem, Gelderland |  |
w/o |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Mar-2020 14:27 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 25-Jun-2022 01:48 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 14-Mar-2024 16:02 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Mar-2024 16:03 | Rob Davis | Updated [Narrative] |
| 11-Apr-2024 06:37 | Rob Davis | Updated [Narrative] |
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