Date:	Sunday 20 February 1944
Time:	02:30 LT
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	207 Sqn RAF
Registration:	EE126
MSN:	EM-A
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Pestinghausen, Bassum, Niedersachsen -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Spilsby
Destination airport:

Narrative:
The aircraft Avro Lancaster II EE126 EM-A set off from RAF Spilsby on the 19th February 1944 to target Leipzig They were caught in searchlights and attacked by a night fighter near Meppen.
This was a Bf 110 G-4 in the hands of Oberleutnant Hans-Heinz Augenstein of the 7./NJG 1, based at Twente airfield in the Netherlands.
The aircraft crashed at Pestinghausen. Three crew died,the others became POWs. He is commemorated at Beckilingen war cemetery. He would have been entitled to a 1939-45 War Medal and was awarded a 1939-1945 Star as his service period was terminated by his death.

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Walter Dowse Jarvis AFC RAF 53990 (NCO:573778 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 01 February, 1944) [PoW]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Maurice Vivian Askew RAF 1098180 [PoW]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Sydney Taylor Pearson RAF 1136635 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Philip Lovelace Paddock RAF 1322372 [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Jeffrey Thomas Morey RAFVR 1578513 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Pilot Officer Leonard Thomas Linton RCAF J/89726 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Sam Paul Rogers RAFVR 1681948 [Killed]

v.urbansky@t-online.de
Volker Urbansky from Cloppenburg-Germany found and explored the exact crash site and parts of the airplane August 2015 after eyewitness showed him the crashsite on a field in Pestinghausen near Syke-Bremen.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
Google Maps

crash by date document German Luftgaukommando XI

http://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/lancaster/avro-lancaster-ii-ee126-em-a-crashed-near-pestinghausen-on-1944-02-20.html
https://www.skegnessstandard.co.uk/news/lancaster-wreckage-is-found-in-germany-1-7233271
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Aug-2015 11:20	Volker Urbansky	Added
26-Aug-2015 14:53	Volker Urbansky	Updated [Source]
26-Aug-2015 15:03	Volker Urbansky	Updated [Source, Narrative]
27-Aug-2015 07:14	Volker Urbansky	Updated [Source]
06-Sep-2015 11:20	Volker Urbansky	Updated [Photo, ]
14-Jul-2017 14:13	gerard57	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Source]
12-Nov-2018 17:25	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator]
25-Dec-2019 20:15	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]
19-Feb-2024 13:06	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]