ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50709
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Date: | Saturday 21 October 1944 |
Time: | 12:39 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 75 (NZ) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | HK596 |
MSN: | AA-O |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near the Zeedijkweg, Ritthem, Vlissingen, Zeeland -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Mepal, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 11:12 hrs for an operation to Walcheren island, Zeeland.
The entire crew perished in the crash:
Pilot F/O. J. Johnson 176437 RAF / Bergen op Zoom cemetery; grave 13 B 11
Flight Engineer Sgt. L. Marfil 1893899 RAF / Bergen op Zoom cemetery; grave 13 B 12
Navigator W/O. T.T. Murdoch 1345478 RAF / Runnymede Memorial - panel 214
Bomb Aimer F/O. A.M. Penman 416154 RNzAF / Bergen op Zoom cemetery; grave 13 B 8
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Sgt. J. Smith 1604615 RAF / Runnymede Memorial - panel 238
Air Gunner Sgt. A. Reid 2211424 RAF / Bergen op Zoom cemetery; grave 13 B 7
Air Gunner W/O. V.J. O'Loughlin 536970 RAF / Bergen op Zoom cemetery; grave 13 B 9
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4562&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
21 July 1944 |
ND752 |
75 (NZ) Sqn RAF |
5 |
Quirijnstokstraat street, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
10-Oct-2019 07:24 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
11-Jan-2021 11:03 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
22-Jun-2022 06:00 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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