ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 239222
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Date: | Monday 6 September 1943 |
Time: | 00:15 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 9 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R5744 |
MSN: | WS-E |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Rheingönheim, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rheinland-Pfalz -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Bardney, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 20:27 hrs local time for an operation against Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg.
The aircraft was hit by several schwere (heavy) Flak-Abteilungen and crashed.
All seven rest in the Durnbach War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=R5744 Google Maps
Revision history:
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