ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 267425
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Date: | Monday 6 November 1944 |
Time: | 19:35 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 463 Sqn RAAF |
Registration: | NF990 |
MSN: | JO-Q |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | road between Lotte - Tecklenburger Land; Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off at 16:45 hrs for an operation, to cut the Mittellandkanal at Gravenhorst, Hörstel (NRW).
The aircraft was shot down by the crew of Leutnant Fries & Feldwebel Staffa of the 2./NJG 1, who had become airborne from Münster-Handorf at 19:04 hrs in Heinkel He 219 A-0 G9+GK.
Navigator Sergeant Cecil Sunderland did not survive.
Mid-upper gunner Sergeant Stanley Harding succumbed to his injuries on the 25th of November.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part five
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=NF990&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact Google Maps
History of this aircraft
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2 January 1944 |
W4897 |
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English Channel off Saint-Pol-sur-Mer, Dunkerque, Nord 59 |
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4 December 1944 |
PB792 |
463 Sqn RAAF |
6 |
Le Hohwald, Bas-Rhin département |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Sep-2021 12:24 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
07-Sep-2021 12:26 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
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