ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50301
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| Date: | Wednesday 19 July 1944 |
| Time: | 01:45 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 460 Sqn RAAF |
| Registration: | LL957 |
| MSN: | AR-E2 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Roggel, Limburg -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Binbrook |
Takeoff at 23:02 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Scholven-Buer in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Feldwebel Richard Richter of the 10./NJG 3, who was flying a Junkers Ju 88 G-1 from Düsseldorf airfield (Germany). The victory was achieved in co-operation with searchlights.
The crew was initially buried at Venlo. Today they rest in the Jonkerbos war cemetery (Gelderland), apart from Bomb Aimer Sergeant Ulne, who rests in Solheim (Bergen, Norway) cemetery.
Fg Off R L Carr RAAF (KIA)
Sgt W J C Cambridge (KIA)
Flt Sgt L C Leek RAAF (PoW)
Sgt R Utne RNAF (KIA)
Flt sgt E B Brown RAAF (KIA)
Sgt W D Glenn (KIA)
Sgt F Ward (KIA)
No other history to add regarding the crash, but our close friend and neighbour Lloyd Leak (Flight Sergeant) is still alive and well after being the only suvivor of this aicraft, then being taken POW. He has recently donated books to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra that he brought back from the POW camp - these were printed in English by their German captors. To this day he cannot remember how he escaped from the aircraft - he regained consciousness after parachuting to the ground. Judy Ford.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3871&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World war 1944 Page 334.
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 4 September 1943 | EE138 | 460 Sqn RAAF | 8 | marshy ground near Stadil, Tim, Midtjylland |  |
w/o |
| 30 August 1944 | PB379 | 460 Sqn RAAF | 0 | Svensköp, Skåne |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Dec-2011 04:34 | Uli Elch | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Dec-2011 14:29 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 01-Apr-2012 00:44 | Judy Ford | Updated [Narrative] |
| 22-Jun-2016 15:47 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 22-Jun-2016 15:58 | Red Dragon | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 23-Oct-2018 14:08 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 19-Oct-2020 16:39 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Feb-2021 12:37 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
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