ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231282
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Date: | Friday 21 January 1944 |
Time: | 22:28 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 97 (The Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JB299 |
MSN: | OF-W |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Schmölau, Dähre, Sachsen-Anhalt -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Bourn, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Operation - Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Major Helmut Lent of the Stab/NJG 3, who was flying Bf 110 G-4 D5+CA from Stade airfield in Niedersachsen.
Crew:-
Pilot : F/L Frank James Roberts DFC RAFVR 149622 (NCO:917850) [Killed]
F/E : Sgt Edward James Devine RAFVR 1891641 [Killed]
Nav : F/S Ronald Dudley DFM RAFVR 1388344 [Killed]
B/A : F/S George Young DFM RAFVR 1479621 [Killed]
W/Op/AG : F/S Francis Martin RAFVR 1342599 [Killed]
M/U : F/S Peter Andrew Marsh RAAF Aus/417311 [Killed]
R/G : W/O2 William Alfred Parsley RCAF R/135211 [Killed]
All buried in the Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany, GPS 52.507028 / 13.222336
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JB299 Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
26 November 1943 |
JB221 |
97 (Straits Settlements) Sqn RAF |
7 |
near Brandau, Modautal, Hessen |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
09-Dec-2019 20:33 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
09-Dec-2019 20:34 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
09-Dec-2019 20:37 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
22-Dec-2019 09:32 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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