ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50776
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| Date: | Saturday 25 March 1944 |
| Time: | 00:25 |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ME672 |
| MSN: | KM-A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | De Flaes swamp, Lage Mierde, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Dunholme Lodge, |
Took off from RAF Dunholme Lodge at 19:02 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Josef Nabrich of the 3./NJG 1, who was flying a Heinkel He 219 from Venlo airfield.
Five are buried in Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery, while Sgt Ratcliffe RCAF rests in the Canadian War Cemetery at Groesbeek.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Bernard Michael Hayes RAFVR 169583 (NCO:658694 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 01 February, 1944) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant James Maurice Ella RAFVR 1622371 [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant Richard Henry John Wellfare RAFVR 1397598 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Mike Fedoruk RCAF 159150 [Evaded]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Wilfred Keith Walker RAFVR 1076680 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Kenneth Lloyd Radcliffe RCAF R/184322 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant William Griffin Perrie RAFVR 1552400 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3549&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 129.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/hayes-bernard.html
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20121121045448/http://www.aircrewremembrancesociety.com/raf1944/5/hayesbernard.html
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 17 April 1942 | R5510 | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF | 3 | 3 km West of Augsburg, Bayern |  |
w/o |
| 6 June 1942 | R5515 | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF | 0 | RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, England |  |
sub |
| 22 June 1944 | ND973 | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF | 7 | between Melick and Herkenbosch; Limburg | |
w/o |
| 13 September 1944 | PB189 | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF | 8 | freight railway station at Stuttgart | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 08-Jun-2016 16:45 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Oct-2018 04:39 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 28-Mar-2020 21:41 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Mar-2020 11:36 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 01-Apr-2020 08:00 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 08-Mar-2024 15:46 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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