ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231071
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| Date: | Monday 3 January 1944 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 156 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ND380 |
| MSN: | GT-T |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Riesdorf, Sachsen-Anhalt -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Warboys, Huntingdonshire |
Takeoff at 00:04 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
The aircraft failed to return, it suffered battle damage over Berlin and crashed.
Possibly, it was hit by Wilde Sau pilot Oberfeldwebel Kurt Welter of the 5./JG 302 (based at Ludwigslust airfield in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), who was flying a Fw 190A.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
As source 2 indicates, all of the crew members - with the exception of T/Sgt Jack Haywood, the American bomb aimer - are listed on the Runnymede Air Forces memorial. Jack Heywood is buried in the American Ardennes cemetery in Belgium.
Navigator Flight Lieutenant Robert Charles Blockey (81376 RAFVR) is one of three men - all RAF - lost during the Second World War and commemorated on a marble tablet in All Saints Church, Grayswood, Surrey, England. See source 4.
Sources:
1. Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
2. http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ND380
3. Google Maps
4. https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/51802
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 4 April 1943 | W4894 | 156 Sqn RAF | 7 | Waddenzee 15 km E of Texel, Noord-Holland |  |
w/o |
| 20 February 1944 | ND358 | 156 Sqn RAF | 7 | near Zasenbeck, Wittingen, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
| 24 March 1944 | JB667 | 156 Sqn RAF | 6 | Großbeuthen, Trebbin, Brandenburg | |
w/o |
| 1 June 1944 | NE143 | 156 Sqn RAF | 3 | Villeguines-Aumont, Aisne |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Dec-2019 10:34 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 19-May-2023 12:06 | Richard | Updated |
| 09-Jun-2023 16:14 | Richard | Updated |
| 15-Jun-2023 10:38 | Richard | Updated |
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