ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 243646
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| Date: | Tuesday 13 June 1944 |
| Time: | 01:31 claim |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 115 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | HK545 |
| MSN: | KO-E |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 3 km west of Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Witchford, Cambridgeshire |
Takeoff at 23:32 hrs for a bombing operation against the Nordstern synthetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Modrow & Unteroffizier Schneider of the 1./NJG 1, who were flying He 219 A-0 G9+AH from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands.
The seven crew members rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=HK545&o=DateIncident&d=asc
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 22 September 1943 | DS675 | 115 Sqn RAF | 6 | Wallensen, Salzhemmendorf, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
| 4 April 1945 | HK555 | 115 Sqn RAF | 8 | Waldhof Elgershausen - Greifenstein, Hessen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-Oct-2020 19:22 | TigerTimon | Added |
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