Accident Avro Lancaster Mk I R5636 ,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 204480
 
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Date:Friday 12 June 1942
Time:03:08 claim
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:83 Sqn RAF
Registration: R5636
MSN: OL-K
Fatalities:Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Aircraft missing
Location:North Sea N of Ameland, Friesland -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire (takeoff at 22:14 hrs)
Destination airport:Gardening - mine-laying
Narrative:
Claimed by Oblt Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weissenfeld 5./NJG2 - North Sea North of Ameland at 03:08.
Crew
Pilot: Aus/401086 Fg Off William Kenneth Williams RAAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 111
Flight Engineer:112493 Plt Off Phillip Stanley Mackay - Runnymede Memorial Panel 70. (NCO:913433 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 06 January, 1942)
Navigator:1059607 Sgt Dennis Neill O’Day - Runnymede Memorial Panel 90.
Bomb Aimer:922739 Sgt Derek John Monk - Runnymede Memorial Panel 89.
Wireless Operator:R/54784 Sgt Thomas Harry Clarke RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 103
Air Gunner: Aus/402411 Sgt Harold Menzies Spence RAAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 113.
Air Gunner:913679 Sgt John William Melhuish - Runnymede Memorial Panel 89.

Sources:

RAAF PERSONNEL SERVING ON ATTACHMENT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SQUADRONS AND SUPPORT UNITS IN WORLD WAR 2 AND MISSING WITH NO KNOWN GRAVE.
CWGC
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=R5636+
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
22 June 1943 EE121 83 Sqn RAF 7 North Sea prob off Friesland w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
15-Jan-2018 16:05 Red Dragon Added
11-Nov-2018 12:29 Nepa Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator]
29-Apr-2020 19:33 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source]
15-Jun-2022 04:16 Ron Averes Updated [Location]

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