ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 236358
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Date: | Saturday 5 September 1942 |
Time: | 03:14 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 97 (The Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R5496 |
MSN: | OF-U |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | main railway station of Bremen. -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 00:05 hrs local time for an operation to Bremen.
The aircraft was hit by the 5./Reserve-Flak-Abteilung 222 and the 5./Reserve-Flak-Abteilung 611; crashed at the main railway station.
All seven rest in the Becklingen War Cemetery in Niedersachsen.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=R5496 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
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8 |
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w/o |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-May-2020 07:18 |
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