ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 243492
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| Date: | Thursday 25 May 1944 |
| Time: | 02:26 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 582 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ND816 |
| MSN: | 6O-O |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Aachen, Nord Rhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Little Staughton, Cambridgeshire |
Takeoff at 00:20 hrs for a bombing operation against the Westbahnhof railway station at Aachen.
The aircraft was engaged by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Schulte, Uffz. Sandvoss & Uffz. Fischer of the 7./NJG 6, who were flying Bf 110 G-4 2Z+AR from Hagenau airfield in modern France; hit by heavy (schwere) Flak and crashed into the Schützenstraße street. This clain was a dual credit; to Aachen Flak and to Oberleutnant Schulte, as his 14thvictory.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Stuart Walker Little DFC RCAF J/21422 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Wilfred Cyril Truman RAFVR 999898 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Lieutenant John Patrick Flynn RCAF J/14167 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Gwynfor Jones RAFVR 176137 (NCO:1316471 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 20 June, 1944) [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant Alfred Wishart Oram RAFVR 1346171 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Bernard William Webb RAFVR 1874126 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Neville Ayrton Rawlinson RAFVR 2216259 [Killed]
All seven rest in the Rheinberg War Cemetery.
Sources:
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ND816
Google Maps
Theo Boiten: Nachtjagd 1944 Part 3, p. 025.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 8 September 1944 | PB123 | 582 Sqn RAF | 6 | Seine-Maritime département |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Oct-2020 18:35 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 01-Oct-2020 18:35 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 01-Oct-2020 18:46 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Narrative] |
| 01-Oct-2020 18:59 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 15-May-2023 04:55 | Anon. | Updated [[Narrative]] |
| 20-May-2023 20:54 | redsix | Updated [[[Narrative]]] |
| 27-Mar-2024 19:03 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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