ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231039
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Date: | Friday 14 January 1944 |
Time: | 19:15 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 49 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JB295 |
MSN: | EA-R |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Reppner, Salzgitter, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Fiskerton, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 16:24 hrs for an operation to Braunschweig in Niedersachsen.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Wendelin Breukel of the 4./NJG 2 (based at Deelen airfield in the Netherlands), who was flying a Ju 88 C-6.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JB295 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
11 August 1943 |
ED625 |
49 Sqn RAF |
5 |
near Bad Kreuznach, Rheinland-Pfalz |
|
w/o |
3 November 1943 |
ED438 |
49 Sqn RAF |
4 |
Hastenrath bei Düren |
|
w/o |
22 June 1944 |
ME675 |
49 Sqn RAF |
7 |
near 'Wellenseind' 3 km northeast of Bladel, Noord-Brabant |
|
w/o |
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Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Dec-2019 18:10 |
TigerTimon |
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