ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231741
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| Date: | Sunday 20 February 1944 |
| Time: | 03:26 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 550 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LM461 |
| MSN: | BQ-U |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | between Solpke and Wernitz (Gardelegen), Sachsen-Anhalt -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF North Killingholme, Lincolnshire |
Takeoff at 23:32 hrs for an operation against aircraft assembly factories at Leipzig in Sachsen.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted and set on fire by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Paul Zorner of the 8./NJG 3, who was flying Bf 110 G-4 D5+FS from Lüneburg airfield in Niedersachsen. The crew abandoned the aircraft and it crashed.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer John Irving Miller RAFVR 172075 (NCO:1425108 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 28 March, 1944) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Flight Sergeant Jack Payne Harrison RAF 1233248 [PoW]
Navigator : Sergeant Robert Emlyn White RAF 568466 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Dennis V H Evans RAF 1395194 [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Philip Howard Hurst RAF 1092315 [PoW]
Air Gunner : Sergeant Gerald Edwin Brown RAFVR 1851490 [Killed]
Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Frank Charles Thomas RAFVR 1255715 [Killed]
Air Gunner : Sergeant Thomas Kenneth Morgan Williams RAFVR 1709098 [Killed]
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LM461
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Dec-2019 20:53 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 19-Feb-2024 13:10 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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