Accident Avro Lancaster Mk I ED329,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51935
 
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Date:Thursday 13 May 1943
Time:02:44
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:57 Sqn RAF
Registration: ED329
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Maasniel (behind the brickworks factory), Limburg -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Scampton
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Shot down by night fighter pilot Major Walter Ehle of the Stab II./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from St Trond airfield, Belgium.

Target: Duisburg
Call Sign: DX-
Takeoff time: 23:59
Crew:
Pilot F/O. V.A. Wilson 126985 RAF Jonkerbos 24 D 6
Flight engineer Sgt. S. Laughlin 980462 RAF Jonkerbos 24 D 7
Navigator F/O. J.D. Wallace 130163 RAF Jonkerbos 24 D 4
Bomb aimer W/O P.G. Kehl 1335521 RAF Survived pow
Wo ag Sgt. R.B. Loverseed 1198322 RAF Jonkerbos 24 D 8
Air gunner F/Sgt. C.L. Gerding R/115979 RCAF Jonkerbos 14 D 5
Air gunner Sgt. A. Steel 1409336 RAF Jonkerbos 24 D 9

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2288&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
10-May-2018 11:13 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
07-Nov-2018 19:46 Nepa Updated [Operator, Operator]

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