ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 208832
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Date: | Sunday 4 April 1943 |
Time: | 23:35 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 156 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W4850 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Sarlhusen, southwest of Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Warboys |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Siegfried Hahn of the 9./NJG 3, flying a Bf 110 from Stade airfield.
Target: Kiel
Call Sign: GT-
Takeoff time: 20:42-
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Cecil Harold Davies RAFVR 142446 (NCO:1385477 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 11 May, 1943) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Kenneth William Taylor RAF 647282 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Jack Arthur Holderness RAFVR 1250340 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Edward Thomas McHugh RAFVR 1105617 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Alfred Rixon RAF 630984 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Albert Ronald Baker RAFVR 1585825 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Philip Jack William Grimwood RAFVR 1159783 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/lancaster/21236-W48501943-04-05.html Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Apr-2018 15:55 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
03-Nov-2018 10:08 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
04-Apr-2024 07:04 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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