ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51689
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Date: | Saturday 26 June 1943 |
Time: | 02:43 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 9 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ED831 |
MSN: | WS-H |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | IJsselmeer 3 km south of Hoorn, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Bardney, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 22:30 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 S/L. A.M. Hobbs DFC 40230 RNzAF Amsterdam 69-B-15 Washed up near Urk 5th Jul 43
Flight engineer Sgt. F.W. Sanderson 573844 RAF Amsterdam 69-B-17
Nav ba Sgt. K.G. Mott 148375 RAF Schellinkhout 26
Nav ba F/O. J.H. Sams 106546 RAF Amsterdam 69-B-15 Washed up near Hoorn
Bomb aimer Sgt. C.P. King 1383417 RAF Harderwijk 2-4 from Barbados. Washed up S of Harderwijk 5th Jul 43
Wo ag Sgt. E.C. Bishop 1200299 RAF Amsterdam 69-B-15 Washed up near Hoorn
Air gunner Sgt. W.C. Rowlands 1575968 RAF Amsterdam 69-B-17
Air gunner F/Sgt. W. Slater 1575183 RAF Amersfoort 13-8-16 Recovered from Ijsselmeer 5th Jul 43
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=&date=&location=&pn=ED831&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
15 March 1944 |
HK540 |
9 Sqn RAF |
5 |
Bietigheim, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Baden-Württemberg |
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w/o |
21 July 1944 |
PD205 |
9 Sqn RAF |
7 |
Bissegem, Kortrijk, West Flanders |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
29-Dec-2018 10:02 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
29-Dec-2018 19:34 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
15-Jan-2019 12:29 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
12-Dec-2021 12:04 |
Anon. |
Updated [Time] |
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