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Date: | Friday 26 June 1942 |
Time: | 02:27 |
Type: | Avro Manchester Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 50 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | L7289 |
MSN: | VN- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Burg-Grambke in Bremen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Machester L7289: Takeoff at 23:20 hrs for the third 1000 bomber raid, this time the target being Bremen.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and hit by light (leichte) & heavy (schwere) Flak; crashed into a field at Grambke.
Captured German documents revealed that the aircraft was shot down at 02:00 hrs on 26/066/1942 and crashed near Bremen. Initially the crew were buried in Waller Friedhof. After hostilities they were reinterred in Becklingen War Cemetery:
Crew:
Pilot:NZ41361 Sgt John Charles Roy RNZAF - killed.
2nd Pilot: Aus.12419 Sgt Jasper Stormond Peters RAAF - killed.
Nav.: Aus.406318 Sgt Robert Leslie Hugall RAAF - killed.
WOp/AG: Aus.402622 Sgt Lawrence Chase Thompson RAAF - killed.
WOp/AG: Aus.404903 Sgt Neil Malcolm Hardy RAAF - killed.
AG: Aus.403194 Sgt James William Lindsay RAAF - killed.
AG: Aus.403813 Sgt Edgar Griffits Johnson RAAF - killed.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=L7289 Air Britain RAF Aircraft L1000 - N9999
RAAF FATALITIES IN SECOND WORLD WAR AMONG RAAF PERSONNEL SERVING ON ATTACHMENT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SQUADRONS AND SUPPORT UNITS
CWGC
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
25 March 1942 |
L7486 |
50 Sqn RAF |
0 |
RAF Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England |
|
w/o |
Bounced on landing |
18 April 1942 |
R5782 |
50 Sqn RAF |
2 |
Glasmoor, Norderstedt, Schleswig-Holstein |
|
w/o |
9 May 1942 |
L7489 |
50 Sqn RAF |
1 |
Marienborg estate, Stege, Sjælland |
|
w/o |
13 May 1942 |
L7519 |
50 Sqn RAF |
5 |
near Thurlby, Lincolnshire, England |
|
w/o |
6 June 1942 |
R5833 |
50 Sqn RAF |
6 |
near Ile de Quiberon, 30 km SSE Lorient, |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-May-2008 12:57 |
JINX |
Added |
23-Jan-2018 16:28 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
28-Jun-2018 12:49 |
ehren69 |
Updated [Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
12-Nov-2018 21:02 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Operator] |
01-May-2020 17:37 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
21-Oct-2023 18:05 |
Nepa |
Updated [[Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]] |