ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50231
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| Date: | Tuesday 15 August 1944 |
| Time: | 12:10 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk X |
| Owner/operator: | 428 (Ghost) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | KB749 |
| MSN: | NA-A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Soesterberg Airfield, Utrecht -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St.George, County Durham |
| Soesterberg Airfield |
Took off from RAF Middleton St George at 09:46 on 15-8-1944 to bomb an airfield. Failed to return from operation over Soesterberg on 15 August 1944, in a 1,004-aircraft daylight raid on Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (Soesterberg) in Holland & Belgium in perfect visibility; over the target, the aircraft received a direct Flak hit; blew up and crashed near Amersfoort, Holland, throwing clear the pilot and his flight engineer. 5 crew killed, 2 PoW. Those who perished rest in Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery.
WO Jakeman was part of Trupp 30 He arrived at Bankau on 4 September 1944.
Sgt Wright was part of Trupp 28. He arrived at Bankau on 29 August 1944
Crew
Pilot: J/87959 Fg Off A P A Jakeman - PoW/Stalag Luft VIII Bankau near Kreuzburg Upper Silesia Stalag IIIA Luckenwalde/PoW Number 709.
Flight Engineer: 1894352 Sgt Stanley William Wright - PoW/Stalag Luft VII Bankau near Kreuzburg
Upper Silesia/Stalag IIIA Luckenwalde/PoW Number 688.
Navigator: 179430 Plt Off Lewis Wilfred Hetherington - Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery Plot 13 Row 1 Grave 15.
Bomb Aimer: J/28945 Plt Off Douglas Walter Brown RCAF - Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery Plot 13 Row 1 Grave 17.
Wireless Operator: J/89903 Plt Off John Barry Cleaver RCAF - Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery Plot 13 Row 1 Grave 14.
Mid Upper Gunner: J/89876 Plt Off Philip Charles Revell RCAF - Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery Plot 13 Row 1 Grave 16.
Rear Gunner: J/90316 Plt Off Gordon Edward Whyte RCAF - Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery Plot 13 Row 1 Grave 13.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 385.
2. https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3927&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
3. https://studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/15-08-1944-sglo-t3927-avro-lancaster-mk-x-kb749-na-a/
4. http://www.rwrwalker.ca/RAF_owned_JP100.html
5. http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/lancavro.html#indexkb749
6. http://www.newmp.org.uk/article.php?categoryid=99&articleid=1510&displayorder=176
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2620336/HETHERINGTON,%20LEWIS%20WILFRED
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amersfoort
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 01-Jul-2016 20:23 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Oct-2018 00:01 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Oct-2018 15:43 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 19-Jul-2019 19:15 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source] |
| 22-Jul-2019 06:41 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 14-Jun-2022 04:41 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 03-May-2023 06:08 | Anon. | Updated [[Location]] |
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