ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 239840
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Date: | Tuesday 7 September 1943 |
Time: | 00:40 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 156 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JB177 |
MSN: | GT-? |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Perlacher Forst, Bayern -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Warboys, Huntingdonshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 20:10 hrs local time for an operation against München in Bayern.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Manfred Meurer of the Stab II./NJG 5, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Parchim airfield in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Those who did not survive rest in the Durnbach War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JB177 Google Maps
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