Accident Avro Lancaster Mk III ND349,
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Date:Sunday 23 April 1944
Time:01:38 claim
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:156 Sqn RAF
Registration: ND349
MSN: GT-C
Fatalities:Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Huckingen, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Upwood, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 21:20 hrs for an operation to Düsseldorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Johannes Werth of the Stab/NJG 2, who had taken off from Deelen airfield in the Netherlands, in a Ju 88.

For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ND349
Google Maps

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
3 January 1944 JB317 156 Sqn RAF 3 between Holtrup and Schweringen, Niedersachsen w/o
18 December 1944 PB675 156 Sqn RAF 7 Missing w/o

Revision history:

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