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Date: | Saturday 31 March 1945 |
Time: | |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk X |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force (RAF) |
Registration: | KB911 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Nettelnburg, Western part of Hamburg/Bergedorf -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Croft |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down during raid on Hamburg by a Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter, probably by German Luftwaffe fighter ace Franz Schall.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Gilbert Paul Haliburton RCAF J/38360 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant J M Hanlin RCAF [PoW]
Navigator : Flying Officer Douglas Gordon Rathwell RCAF J/40731 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer C K Legaarden RCAF [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Flying Officer R Deane RCAF [PoW]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Pilot Officer Robert John Green RCAF J/95313 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant J A English RCAF [PoW]
Sources:
http://www.luftwaffe.cz/schall.html - Air Britain: RAF Aircraft KA100 - KZ999, published 1990
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
06-Sep-2011 05:12 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
07-Sep-2011 02:48 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Location, Source] |