ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 234613
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Date: | Saturday 25 March 1944 |
Time: | 00:21 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 626 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | HK539 |
MSN: | UM-A2 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Neuwarendorf, Warendorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Wickenby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 18:41 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of the Stab IV./NJG 1, who had left St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield in Belgium at 22:16 hrs, in Bf 110 G-4 G9+EZ.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=HK539 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
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LM599 |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
01-Apr-2020 08:23 |
TigerTimon |
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