ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 159034
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| Date: | Wednesday 30 August 1944 |
| Time: | 02:10 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 115 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | PB131 |
| MSN: | KO-W |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Vogelsang-Warsin, Pommern -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Witchford |
| Stettin |
Took off from RAF Witchford at 21:08 hrs for an operation against Stettin.
The aircraft was engaged by heavy (schwere) Flak and by Leutnant Kurt Welter (who was flying a Bf 109G of 10./JG 300).
All are buried in Poland at Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery. Their average age was 20 and it is noted that Sgt Aspinell was only 17. Thus, not only was he one of the youngest airmen killed on Bomber Command operations in 1944, but his service number indicates he had served since the summer of 1941 when, at best he could have only been 15:
Crew
Pilot: 182161 Fg Off Nicholas George Berkeley - Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Plot 5 Row D
Collective Grave 7.
Flight Engineer: 1372600 Sgt James Kincade Sim - Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Plot 5 Row D
Collective Grave 7.
Navigator: 1336908 Sgt Jeffery Francis Mawby Webber - Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Plot 5 Row D Collective Grave 7.
Bomb Aimer: J/95268 Plt Off Robert Kidd Jack RCAF - Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Plot 5 Row D Collective Grave 7.
Wireless Operator: 1606369 Sgt Derek Charles Ernest Aspinall - Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Plot 5 Row D Collective Grave 7.
Mid Upper Gunner: 1424336 Sgt Reginald Robert Wood - Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Plot 5 Row D Collective Grave 7.
Rear Gunner: 1549198 Sgt Henry Auld Nisbet Yule - Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Plot 5 Row D Collective Grave 7.
Sources:
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 404.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
Google Maps
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Aug-2013 10:54 | JINX | Added |
| 06-Jul-2016 21:45 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Oct-2018 16:36 | Nepa | Updated [Location, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 28-Oct-2018 16:37 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 18-Jun-2021 18:29 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 04-Jul-2022 21:34 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 02-Jul-2023 15:02 | Anon. | Updated [[Location]] |
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