ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 237123
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Date: | Sunday 20 September 1942 |
Time: | 03:28 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R5554 |
MSN: | KM-Q |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Forêt de Mormal forest, Locquignol municipality, département du Nord -
France
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Operation - München, Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Herget & Feldwebel Liebherr of the 9./NJG 4, who were flying a Bf 110 from Juvincourt airfield.
Those who did not survive rest in the Maubeuge-Centre cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=378 Google MapsNotes
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=812
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
21 December 1942 |
W4125 |
44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
5 |
Bad Rappenau, Baden-Württemberg |
|
w/o |
22 June 1943 |
LM330 |
44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
8 |
North Sea poss off Friesland |
|
w/o |
22 June 1944 |
LM592 |
44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
7 |
Walik, Riethoven, Noord-Brabant |
|
w/o |
16 July 1944 |
PB206 |
44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
7 |
North Sea 40 km west of Nymindegab (Syddanmark) (claim location) |
|
mis |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
19-Jun-2020 08:17 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
19-Jun-2020 08:19 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Location] |
25-Feb-2022 21:01 |
redsix1 |
Updated [Source] |
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