ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 234619
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Date: | Friday 24 March 1944 |
Time: | 23:34 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 61 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JB129 |
MSN: | QR-G |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Rimbeck, Warburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 18:49 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Peter Ehrhardt of the 8./NJG 5, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Werneuchen airfield in Brandenburg.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/cox-john-grant.html Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
3 June 1942 |
R5562 |
61 Sqn RAF |
6 |
Rees, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
|
w/o |
6 December 1944 |
ME725 |
61 Sqn RAF |
2 |
Ilschhausen, Ebsdorfergrund, Hessen |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
01-Apr-2020 09:01 |
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01-Apr-2020 09:02 |
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