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Date: | Sunday 16 July 1944 |
Time: | 02:10 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | PB206 |
MSN: | KM-Q |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | North Sea 40 km west of Nymindegab (Syddanmark) (claim location) -
Denmark
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Dunholme Lodge |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Took off from RAF Dunholme Lodge at 23:32 for Gradening operations ver Danish waters. Lost without trace.
The aircraft was shot down by Leutnant Dräger of the 8./NJG 3, who was operating under Himmelbett control in box Büffel.
All are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer William John Hough RAFVR 135510 [Killed] (NCO:1032904 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 09 March, 1943)
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Herbert Dennis Hoare RAF 576677 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer Leonard Priestley RAFVR 182783 [Killed] (NCO:1486622 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 26 September, 1944)
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer Jacob Harry Singer RCAF J/89843 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Howard William Nichols RAFVR 1581185 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Paul Andersen RCAF R/208718 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Elmer Charles King RCAF R/171514 [Killed]
Sources:
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World war 1944 Page 331.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
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44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
4 |
Forêt de Mormal forest, Locquignol municipality, département du Nord |
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w/o |
21 December 1942 |
W4125 |
44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
5 |
Bad Rappenau, Baden-Württemberg |
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w/o |
22 June 1943 |
LM330 |
44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
8 |
North Sea poss off Friesland |
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w/o |
22 June 1944 |
LM592 |
44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
7 |
Walik, Riethoven, Noord-Brabant |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-Aug-2013 21:04 |
JINX |
Added |
27-Nov-2014 16:32 |
H.Shaft |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location] |
22-Jun-2016 15:33 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
30-Oct-2018 04:43 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
07-Jun-2021 16:04 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
15-Jul-2023 06:45 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [[Time, Location, Phase, Source, Damage, Narrative]] |