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Date: | Sunday 23 April 1944 |
Time: | 01:30 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 463 Sqn RAAF |
Registration: | LL892 |
MSN: | JO-L |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Kerkelaan/Hoofdstraat, Nieuwolda, Groningen prv -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Waddington (EGXW) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:50 hrs for an operation to Braunschweig in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was hit by light Flak of the 3./leichte Flak-Abteilung 845 (v) and crashed. The seven crew members rest at Nieuwolda cemetery:
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Charles Copley Schomberg RAAF Aus/413798 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Harry Steels RAFVR 1048665 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Lieutenant Hubert Thomas Petts DFC RAFVR 157326 (NCO:1578342 : Commission Gazetted Monday 23 August, 1943) [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant James Lane Harden RAFVR 1336781 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant Wilfred Sydney Millar RAFVR 1487423 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flying Officer Leonard John Calderwood RAAF Aus/426531 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Donald James McDonald RAAF Aus/426372 [Killed]
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3617&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
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- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
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17-Jun-2009 09:14 |
w.bleumink |
Updated |
26-Dec-2011 08:50 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
28-Dec-2011 14:22 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
01-Apr-2020 11:34 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
01-Apr-2020 11:35 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
01-Apr-2020 17:18 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
14-Jun-2022 10:26 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
22-Apr-2024 06:59 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |