ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52294
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| Date: | Wednesday 20 October 1943 |
| Time: | 22:35 |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 83 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | JB154 |
| MSN: | OL-A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Anreep, Drenthe -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire |
Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Heinz Vinke of the 11./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110G from Leeuwarden airfield. The entire crew perished in the crash.
Takeoff time: 17:25
Crew:
Pilot S/L. R.J. Manton 39599 RAF Assen E 1 51
Flight engineer F/Sgt. A.C. Branch DFM 962835 RAF Assen E 1 53-55
Navigator S/L. A.G.A. Cochrane DFC 43847 RAF Assen E 1 53-55
Bomb aimer F/Sgt. R.L. Taylor 1318833 RAF Assen E 1 53 55
Wireless op F/Sgt. A.E. Evans 1018567 RAF Assen E 1 52
Air gunner Sgt. F. Earnshaw 1339874 RAF Assen E 1 50
Air gunner F/Sgt. C.W. Foster 1550850 RAF Assen E 1 53-55 From New Zealand
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2996&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
http://www.drentheindeoorlog.nl/?aid=368
http://www.ineke-heijting.nl/herdenken-memorandum-bevrijdingsfestival/anreep/herdenkingsbijeenkomst-2013/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 24 August 1943 | ED984 | 83 Sqn RAF | 6 | Nunsdorf, Zossen, Brandenburg |  |
w/o |
| 2 January 1944 | ND354 | 83 Sqn RAF | 7 | Lutten, Goldenstedt, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
| 11 April 1944 | ND389 | 83 Sqn RAF | 7 | Boensberg, Merksplas, Antwerp |  |
w/o |
| 11 November 1944 | PB188 | 83 Sqn RAF | 1 | railway station of Hamburg-Harburg | |
w/o |
| 9 May 1945 | PB616 | 83 Sqn RAF | 0 | B.112 Rheine/Hopsten ALG | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 30-Aug-2015 14:08 | gerard57 | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Dec-2015 18:44 | Apen | Updated [Operator] |
| 20-Dec-2017 12:15 | gerard57 | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Oct-2018 19:47 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 03-Nov-2018 20:44 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
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