ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 240331
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| Date: | Tuesday 23 May 1944 |
| Time: | 01:34 |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 115 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ND745 |
| MSN: | A4-D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Hoogstraten, Antwerpen -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Witchford, Cambridgeshire |
| Dortmund |
Take off at 22:59 hrs for an operation against Dortmund in Germany.
Homeward-bound the aircraft was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hans-Heinz Augenstein of the 12./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield. Credited to Augenstein as his 31st victory.
Crashed near Hoogstraten.
Sgt Hedgecock and Sgt Gillespie were part of Trupp 1. They arrived at Bankau on 6 June 1944
Those who perished were initially buried in Fort 3 British Cemetery Antwerp
Reinterred 21 December 1945.
Crew
Pilot: 126716 Fg Off John Halliday Ward - Schoonselhof Cemetery Plot IVa Row E Grave 14.
Flight Engineer: 177959 Sgt John Atherstone Snowden - Schoonselhof Cemetery Plot IVa Row E Joint Grave 12-13.
Navigator: 1394818 Sgt Howard Eric Hedgecock - PoW/Stalag Luft VII Bankau near Kreuzberg Upper Silesia/Stalag Luft IIIa Luckenwalde/PoW Number 25. Captured near Brussels May 1944.
Bomb Aimer: A/418986 Fg Off Philip John Rupert Steele RAAF - PoW/Stalag Luft III Sagan and Belaria/Stalag Luft IIIa Luckenwalde/PoW Number 6290.
Wireless Operator: 979940 Sgt Ian Melrose Gillespie - PoW/Stalag Luft VII Bankau near Kreuzberg Upper Silesia/Stalag Luft IIIa Luckenwalde/PoW Number 17.
Mid Upper Gunner: 156998 Fg Off Reginald Ivor Havard Davies - Schoonselhof Cemetery Plot IVa Row E Joint Grave 12-13.
Rear Gunner: R/189530 Flt Sgt Walter Joseph Fullum RCAF - Schoonselhof Cemetery Plot IVa Row E Grave 11.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ND745
Google Maps
CWGC
The Long Road - Oliver Clutton-Brock
Theo Boiten: Nachtjagd 1944 Part 3, p. 020.
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Aug-2020 17:57 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 30-Jun-2022 03:03 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 10-May-2023 05:43 | Anon. | Updated [[Location]] |
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