ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50482
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| Date: | Monday 22 May 1944 |
| Time: | 02:04 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 166 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ND579 |
| MSN: | AS-M |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea (now Maasvlakte), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Kirmington |
Takeoff at 22:30 hrs for a bombing operation against Duisburg, Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Martin Drewes of the Stab III./NJG 1, who had taken off from Leeuwarden airfield at 00:09 hrs, in a Bf 110 G-4.
ND579 came down in the North Sea, into the area of todays ‘Maasvlakte’, the newest reclaimed land/harbour section of Rotterdam-Seaside, named ‘Yangtzehaven’ (near Hook of Holland), in the Province of Zuid-Holland. Some remains of the aircraft were recovered/‘dredged away’ from the new harbour basin whilst under construction, in June 1971, by the Recovery Unit of the Royal Dutch Air Force. The rest of the aircraft is still at the location, under meters of sand of the fuel tanker terminal, or into the bottom of the harbour basin (at Yangtze Harbour)
Five of the seven crew were killed:
Pilot Officer J. W. Reilly - Pilot - survived injured, taken PoW - taken to hospital first then Stalag Luft III Sagan (Poland)
Sgt. D. Dickson - Flight Engineer - buried Brielle
Flt. Sgt. L. C. Clutterbuck - Navigator - buried Hoek van Holland
Flg. Off. P. Pochaillo - Bomb Aimer - evaded back to England, died 21/5/2016.
Sgt. T. J. Meehan - Wireless Op. - buried Hoek van Holland
Sgt. W. B. Rankin - Mid Upper Gunner - buried Den Haag-Westduin
Sgt. A. Patmore - Rear Gunner - reburied Bergen op Zoom 1971
Sgt. Patmore was discovered in the wreckage of ND579 where it crashed, when it was disturbed by construction work in June 1971. Hence his re-burial at Bergen op Zoom
Cedited to Hauptmann Matin Drewes, stab. III/NJG 1 as his 39th victory. (5)
Sources:
1. http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1944%20sec_tcm5-7285.pdf
2. http://home.cogeco.ca/~dswallow4/NetherlandCrashes.htm
3. Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
4. Google Maps
5. Theo Boiten: Nachtjagd 1944 vol 3, p. 012.
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 17 March 1945 | PA234 | 166 Sqn RAF | 5 | Grosshabersdorf |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 26-Dec-2014 21:05 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Dec-2014 21:09 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Narrative] |
| 14-Jun-2016 12:34 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Destination airport] |
| 16-Apr-2018 17:14 | PHakze | Updated [Total fatalities] |
| 06-May-2018 07:59 | PHakze | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 10-May-2018 19:53 | PHakze | Updated [Narrative] |
| 02-Nov-2018 18:46 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 24-Jan-2019 20:32 | Jos Gouman | Updated [Narrative] |
| 03-Feb-2019 17:12 | Anon. | Updated [Cn, Total fatalities] |
| 17-Aug-2020 17:53 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Mar-2021 11:17 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 20-Jun-2022 01:09 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 07-May-2023 07:24 | Anon. | Updated [[Location]] |
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