ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 243512
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| Date: | Thursday 25 May 1944 |
| Time: | 00:31 LT |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 427 (Lion) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | LV922 |
| MSN: | ZL-? |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Near Antwerp -
 Belgium
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire |
Mission - bombing operation against the Rothe Erde railway station at Aachen, Germany.
The aircraft was very severely shot up in a fighter attack at 00:31 hrs over the area of Antwerpen. The attacker was Oberleutnant Fritz Lau of the 4./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Deelen airfield in the Netherlands. Its starboard elevator and flap were shot away, the rudder bar was severed and the fuel system damaged, the starboard side of the fuselage from nose to stern was severely damaged, and the mid-upper gunner was wounded. The aircraft aborted and landed successfully at the emergency landing field at Woodbridge.
The damage was assessed as being category AC.
The aircraft was repaired and sent to 1653 Heavy Coversion Unit, where it was written off folloting a ntraining accident on 17 April 1745, when it overshot the runway at RAF Rufforth.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RCAF/427_wwII.html
RAF Losses by W R CHORLEY, volume 8, page 168.
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 7 September 1943 | LK628 | 427 (Lion) Sqn RCAF | 5 | Tutzing, Bayern |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 02-Oct-2020 08:28 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 02-Oct-2020 08:30 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 05-Nov-2022 09:17 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 15-May-2023 04:55 | Anon. | Updated [[Location]] |
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