ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50402
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| Date: | Tuesday 13 June 1944 |
| Time: | 01:24 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 514 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LL678 |
| MSN: | JI-L2 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Zuidloo, Bathmen, Overijssel -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridge |
Took off from RAF Waterbeach at 23:12 hrs for a bombing operation against the Nordstern synthetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted and shot down by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Schmidt, Feldwebel Schönfeld & Feldwebel Schlosser of the 8./NJG 1, who were flying Bf 110 G-4 G9+AS; crashed 01:24 hrs at Zuidloo (Overijssel), a small hamlet, 3 km SE of Bathmen, where those who died are buried in the general cemetery:
Plt off H S Delacour RAAF (KIA)
Fg Off S A Phillips RCAF (KIA)
Sgt G E Martin (Evaded)
Fg Off R G Picton (KIA)
Flt Sgt G Palamountain (Evaded)
Sgt A C Benham (KIA)
Sgt F S Williams RCAF (Evaded)
Flt Sgt G D Savage (KIA)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3780&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Royal Air Force Bomber Command losses of the Second World war 1944 Page 276.
http://www.raafdb.com/view_aircraft.asp?id=1213
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Dec-2011 03:35 | Uli Elch | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Dec-2011 14:21 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 15-Jun-2016 16:29 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Oct-2018 14:44 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 05-Oct-2020 16:45 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 05-Oct-2020 17:49 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 24-Jun-2022 23:33 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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