Accident Avro Lancaster Mk III ND505,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50888
 
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Date:Sunday 20 February 1944
Time:05:45
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:83 Sqn RAF
Registration: ND505
MSN: OL-T
Fatalities:Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Kats, Zeeland -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Took off from RAF Wyton at 2358.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Heinz Oloff of the 2./NJG 1, who was flying Bf 110 G-4 G9+EK from Gilze-Rijen airfield.
All are buried in Vlissingen Northern Cemetery.
Crew
Plt Off V A R Langford (KIA)
Sgt E W Curzon (KIA)
Flt Sgt W D Lindley-Lloyd (KIA)
Fg Off R P D Perkins (KIA)
Sgt W S Crockford (KIA)
Sgt T J G Davies (KIA)
Flt Sgt W R Sutton RAAF (KIA)

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3427&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World 1944 Page 86.
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://wingstovictory.nl/database/database_detail-du.php%3Fwtv_id%3D368&prev=search

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
22 June 1944 JB180 83 Sqn RAF 7 Tripsrath, Geilenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
07-Jun-2016 18:34 Red Dragon Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
11-Nov-2018 12:33 Nepa Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator]
24-Dec-2019 20:33 TigerTimon Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]

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