ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 159547
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| Date: | Friday 6 October 1944 |
| Time: | 20:43 |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 106 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | PD214 |
| MSN: | ZN-D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Varrelbusch-Staatsforsten near railway station; Niedersachsen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Metheringham, Lincolnshire |
Lancaster PD214: Takeoff at 17:45 hrs for a bombing mission against Bremen. 06/10/1944
Coned by 2 & 3/Flakscheinw Abt 269 and 3/Flakscheinw Abt 268. Hit by 2 & 2/schw Flak Abt 531, 1, 5 & 6/schw Flak Abt 390, 2/schw Flak Abt 542 and 1/schw Flak Abt 521.
Crashed and exploded Varrelbusch at 20:43 hrs
Crew
F/Lt (50448) Douglas STEWART (pilot) RAF: killed
F/Lt (Aus.405992) John Colclough BARLOW (2.pilot) RAAF - killed
Sgt (1894713) Ronald Pascoe Barton (Flt Eng) RAFVR - killed
F/Sgt (1333680) George Bowering Kirby (nav.) RAFVR - killed
P/O (J/J88887) Clyde James Service (AB) RCAF - killed
Sgt (1320894) Gordon Stuart Grogan (WOp/AG) RAFVR - killed
Sgt (1472950) James Anthony Fell (AG) RAFVR - killed
Sgt (1593431) Ronald James Paul (AG) RAFVR - killed
Sources:
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
witness Mr. Heuermann Varrelbusch
Volker Urbansky-Cloppenburg v.urbansky@t-online.de
Nachtjagd Combat Archives 1944 Part 4 - Theo Boiten
http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Family-missing-Swansea-World-War-airman-crash/story-26008335-detail/story.html
https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/lancaster/22435-PD2141944-10-07.html
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 2 June 1942 | R5844 | 106 Sqn RAF | 7 | Homberg, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
| 31 July 1943 | R5665 | 106 Sqn RAF | 1 | Viersener Straße, Mönchengladbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
Images:
crash place Lancaster PD214 near railway station Staatsforsten-Varrelbusch
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 29-Aug-2013 12:23 | JINX | Added |
| 07-Oct-2014 10:34 | Anon. | Updated [Location, Source, Photo, ] |
| 11-Feb-2015 11:00 | gerard57 | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Oct-2018 20:58 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 03-Jun-2021 18:08 | TigerTimon | Updated [Date, Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-May-2023 11:11 | Nepa | Updated [[Date, Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]] |
| 18-Sep-2023 09:30 | westham24 | Updated [[[Date, Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]]] |
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