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Date: | Tuesday 15 June 1943 |
Time: | 01:55 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 9 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LM329 |
MSN: | WS-Q |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Maas river near Oijen, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Bardney, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Wilhelm Herget of the Stab I./NJG 4 (detached to 3./NJG 1), flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Venlo airfield. Crash site south bank of Maas, near Oijen.
Target: Oberhausen
Takeoff time: 22:56
Crew:
Pilot P/O. J. Evans 145515 RAF Uden War Cem 5 G 5
Flight engineer Sgt. V.G.L. Smith 1178195 RAF Uden War Cem 5 G 6
Navigator Sgt. R. Borthwick 1437293 RAF Uden War Cem 5 G 8
Navigator Sgt. V.J. Tarr 1383325 RAF Uden War Cem 5 H 11
Bomb aimer Sgt. A.W. Waite 1481843 RAF Uden War Cem 5 G 7
Wo ag F/Sgt. W.J. Chapple 1257583 RAF Uden War Cem 5 F 9
Air gunner Sgt. H.I. Ashdown 1316463 RAF Uden War Cem 5 G 9
Air gunner Sgt. D.W. Brough 1339242 RAF Uden War Cem 5 G 10
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2462&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= - Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
26-Dec-2011 06:15 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
08-Jan-2012 11:44 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport] |
13-Jun-2018 18:57 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
03-Nov-2018 19:41 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
17-Jun-2022 01:23 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location, Narrative] |