ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50487
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| Date: | Monday 22 May 1944 |
| Time: | 01:38 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 514 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LL695 |
| MSN: | JI-A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Op de Hulst at Geldrop, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Waterbeach, Cambridge |
Took off from RAF Waterbeach at 22:42 hrs for a bombing operation against Duisburg in Germany.
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. This was his 37th credited victory.
The bomber crashed 01:38 at Geldrop (Noord-Brabant), 6 km ESE from the centre of Eindoven, where those who died were buried on 26 May in Woensel General Cemetery. Since 1945, the body of Sgt Rose RCAF has been taken to the Canadian War Cemetery at Groesbeek. Flt Sgt Medland had put up a previously fine show during a recent visit to Chambly, regaining Waterbeach with one engine from his Lancaster shot out of its frame. His richly deserved award was published in the London Gazette of 2 June 1944:
flt Sgt C J Medland DFM (POW)
Sgt A R Sealtiel (KIA)
Fg Off D Walker (Evaded)
Flt Sgt L J Venus (POW)
Sgt L Shimmons (Evaded)
Sgt C E Rose RCAF (KIA)
Sgt B R Williams (KIA)
Sources:
http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1944%20sec_tcm5-7285.pdf
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 231.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/BomberCommandDatabaseSearch/?q=Medland+and+Lancaster+and+1944
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 22 April 1945 | LM285 | 514 Sqn RAF | 0 | Heidseweg road, Heide, Limburg | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 26-Dec-2011 09:07 | Uli Elch | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Dec-2011 14:20 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 13-Jun-2016 18:31 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Oct-2018 14:43 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 17-Aug-2020 18:38 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-May-2023 07:23 | Anon. | Updated [[Time, Location, Source, Narrative]] |
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