ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51675
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Date: | Saturday 26 June 1943 |
Time: | 02:31 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 106 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W4256 |
MSN: | ZN-V |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Waddenzee 2 km east of Hippolytushoef, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Syerston, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:00 for an operation to Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Rudolf Sigmund of the 10./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Bergen or Leeuwarden airfield.
Crew:
Pilot Sgt. S.G. White 1318824 RAF Hippolytushoef C-12-373
Flight engineer Sgt. E.C. Crook 1447786 RAF Hippolytushoef C-12-370/372
Navigator Sgt. G.W.B. Enright 147316 RAF Hippolytushoef C-12-370/372
Bomb aimer P/O. J.E.D. Craigie J/22535 RCAF Hippolytushoef C-12-369
Wo ag Sgt. J.F. Bates 1294682 RAF Hippolytushoef C-12-368
Air gunner F/Sgt. M.B. Watt 415456 RAAF Hippolytushoef C-12-367
Air gunner Sgt. E.T. Harding 1531330 RAF Hippolytushoef C-12-370/372
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=&date=&location=&pn=W4256&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
15 June 1943 |
R5551 |
106 Sqn RAF |
7 |
Eerbeekseweg, Rozendaal, Gelderland |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
28-Dec-2018 20:45 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
29-Dec-2018 19:28 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
15-Jan-2019 12:23 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
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