ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 212044
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Date: | Sunday 13 June 1943 |
Time: | 01:30 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 50 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ED472 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Ahaus, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Dietrich Schmidt of the 8./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Twente airfield, the Netherlands.
Target: Bochum
Call Sign: VN-
Takeoff time: 22:03
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Sergeant Arthur John Weber RAFVR 1169330 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Pilot Officer Mathew Cecil Carter RAFVR 146404 [Killed] (NCO:940122 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 20 July, 1943)
Navigator : Pilot Officer Marcus Richards Felsen RCAF J/17260 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Reginald Goldstraw RAFVR 921667 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Frank Norman RAFVR 999350 [Killed]
Air Gunner : Flying Officer Victor William Ferguson RNZAF NZ/401823 [Killed]
Air Gunner : Sergeant Robert Charles Kerley RAFVR 1333840 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ED472 Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-Jun-2018 07:28 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
03-Nov-2018 20:26 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
12-Jun-2023 06:52 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [[Operator, Departure airport, Operator]] |
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