Date:	Thursday 27 April 1944
Time:	00:47
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	619 Sqn RAF
Registration:	LL919
MSN:	PG-W
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Landeville, Haute-Marne -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Dunholme Lodge
Destination airport:	Schweinfurt

Narrative:
Aircraft took off at 21h32 on the 26th. It was intercepted and shot down on RTB by a night fighter of 8./NJG1 flown by Oblt Dietrich Schmidt.

The 6 dead crew members are buried in the churchyard at Landeville near the crash site. The sole survivor was made a prisonner of war.

Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Guy Godfrey Charles (Nip) Gunzi RAFVR 169429 (NCO:1293787 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 01 February, 1944) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Flight Sergeant Ernest George Cass RAF 573138 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer Nickolas Vlassie RCAF J/28974 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant James Walter Mills RAF 928841 [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant Alan Pickstone RAFVR 1436408 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Pilot Officer Lewis Leslie Feindell RCAF J/86639 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Kenneth Frank RAFVR 1590367 [Killed]

619 Sqn wartime records from The National Archives UK
Personnel files of both RCAF crew members containing loss report from RCAF historical microfilms
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2346553
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2346549
https://aircrewremembered.com/gunzi-guy.html
https://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=1222
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ll919&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=LL919
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Jun-2023 14:55	tachel	Added
10-Jun-2023 14:56	tachel	Updated
26-Apr-2024 06:30	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]