ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231295
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Date: | Friday 21 January 1944 |
Time: | 23:10 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 77 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LK730 |
MSN: | KN-G |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Dannigkow, Gommern, Sachsen-Anhalt -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Elvington, Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:52 hrs for an operation to Magdeburg in Sachsen-Anhalt.
Probably, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Manfred Meurer of the Stab I./NJG 1, who was flying He 219 A-0 G9+BB from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LK730 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
22 June 1943 |
JB852 |
77 Sqn RAF |
7 |
De Harskamp (Wehrmacht practice range), Harskamp, Gelderland |
|
w/o |
1 September 1943 |
JD413 |
77 Sqn RAF |
5 |
junction Wiesenstraße/Südring, Datteln, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
|
w/o |
3 November 1943 |
JD321 |
77 Sqn RAF |
8 |
Hoef ten Halve, Helvoirt, Noord-Brabant |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Dec-2019 06:44 |
TigerTimon |
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