ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 159260
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| Date: | Wednesday 17 January 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster B Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 405 (Vancouver) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | PB402 |
| MSN: | LQ-M |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Pfaffenhausen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Gransden Lodge |
| RAF Gransden Lodge |
Mission to Zeitz. Took off from RAF Gransden Lodge at 1813 hrs to assist in the marking of the Braunkohle-Benzin synthetic oil plant. Crashed at Pfaffenhausen. All are buried in Durnbach War Cemetery. Plt Off Miller RCAF was flying in the capacity of visual air bomber.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Harold Leslie Payne RCAF J/5549 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Harry Alfred Marshall RAFVR 1337884 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer Henry Eugene Novak RCAF J/38343 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer Donald Gordon McKay RCAF J/28933 [Killed]
Visual Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer Allan Bernard Miller RCAF J/88574 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Pilot Officer Joseph Aloysius Bruggeman RCAF J/94900 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Pilot Officer Benjamin Robert Cunliffe RCAF J/95226 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Pilot Officer Norman Lawrence Lavek Smith RCAF J/95486 [Killed]
Not: There at least four locations in Germany named Pfaffenhausen but in respect of this aircraft - the crash was at Pfaffenhausen, Jossgrund, Spessart, Germany. Crash report: Crashed 875 yards south-east of Pfaffenhausen (34 miles east of Frankfurt) and 130 miles south-west of their target Zeitz. Was buried in the north-east corner of the village cemetary.
Later buried at Durnbach Military Cemetery, near Tegernsee, Bavaria,Germany. Investigative report concluded it was a mid-air collision with 434 Squadron Lancaster KB850 WL-O.
Sources:
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1945 Page 50.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 25 May 1944 | ND526 | 405 (Vancouver) Sqn RCAF | 1 | Hilvarenbeek, Noord-Brabant |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Aug-2013 06:13 | JINX | Added |
| 24-May-2015 20:35 | Zeeland | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 19-May-2016 17:39 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Jul-2017 15:49 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 06-Apr-2018 19:00 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 13-Oct-2018 16:50 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator] |
| 16-Jan-2024 07:56 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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