Accident Avro Lancaster Mk III JB485,
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Date:Friday 26 November 1943
Time:22:56 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:57 Sqn RAF
Registration: JB485
MSN: DX-L
Fatalities:Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:near Bookholzberg, Ganderkesee, Niedersachsen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF East Kirkby
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hans-Joachim Witzleb of the Stab III./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Twente airfield, the Netherlands.
Also coned by searchlights and claimed by heavy Flak.

Target: Berlin
Takeoff time: 17:25
Crew: http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JB485

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JB485

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
22 June 1944 LM580 57 Sqn RAF 1 Asch, Limburg w/o
6 December 1944 NG199 57 Sqn RAF 7 Am Dreisberg (wooded hillside), Mornshausen, Gladenbach, Hessen w/o
17 December 1944 SW245 57 Sqn RAF 7 English Channel off Dieppe (Seine-Maritime département) w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
26-Nov-2018 08:15 TigerTimon Added
27-Nov-2018 19:34 stehlik49 Updated [Operator]

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