ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50777
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| Date: | Saturday 25 March 1944 |
| Time: | 00:20 |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 115 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LL694 |
| MSN: | KO-N |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | along the Lochemseweg road, Epse, Gelderland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Witchford |
Took off from RAF Witchford at 18:37 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Martin Drewes of the Stab III./NJG 1, who had taken off from Twente airfield at 22:50 hrs, in a Bf 110 G-4. All were buried on 27 March in Gorssel General Cemetery:
Plt Off T E Vipond (KIA)
Sgt A Diggle (KIA)
Flt Sgt J L Duffy RNZAF (KIA)
Fg Off E J Deemer RCAF (KIA)
Sgt J E Hammond (KIA)
Sgt A J Hull (KIA)
Sgt R L Coulter RCAF (KIA)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3551&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
Google Maps
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 132.
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 11 August 1943 | DS665 | 115 Sqn RAF | 7 | Chart Sutton, Maidstone, Kent |  |
w/o |
| 24 August 1943 | DS722 | 115 Sqn RAF | 4 | North Sea 20 km west of Castricum, Noord-Holland | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 26-Dec-2011 08:40 | Uli Elch | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Dec-2011 14:19 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 08-Jun-2016 16:24 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Oct-2018 16:32 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 28-Mar-2020 21:28 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Mar-2020 21:04 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
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