ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 243530
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| Date: | Sunday 28 May 1944 |
| Time: | 02:30 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 166 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ND996 |
| MSN: | AS-N |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Stahe, Gangelt, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Kirmington, Lincolnshire |
| Aachen |
Take off at 23:50 hrs for a bombing operation against the Rothe Erde railway station at Aachen in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Unteroffizier Walter Reichenberger of the 2./NJG 2, who had taken off from Eindhoven airfield (the Netherlands) at 23:59 hrs, in Junkers Ju 88 R-2 4R+RK. This was Reichenberger's 2nd credited victory.
The crew were initially buried in Stahe Communal Cemetery.
Sgt Crompton was reinterred on 27 March 1947.
The remaining members of the crew were reinterred on 21 January 1947.
Crew
Pilot: 174346 Plt Off Alan Snell - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 21 Row C Collective Grave
5-8.
Flight Engineer: 1593830 Sgt Alan Stewart Broadbent - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 21 Row C Collective Grave 5-8.
Navigator: 160593 Fg Off Norman John Wakeham - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 21 Row C Collective Grave 5-8.
Bomb Aimer: 1437758 Flt Sgt Robert Francis Yates - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 21 Row C Collective Grave 5-8.
Wireless Operator: 1323019 Sgt Leslie John Witcomb - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 21 Row C Collective Grave 5-8.
Mid Upper Gunner: 1095831 Sgt William Roland Crompton - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 21 Row G Grave 10.
Rear Gunner: 1814861 Sgt Walthere Armand Tixhon (Belgium) - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Plot 21 Row C Collective Grave 5-8.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three, page 28.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ND996
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CWGC
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 20 May 1944 | ME775 | 166 Sqn RAF | 2 | Thoiry, Seine-et-Oise |  |
w/o |
| 13 August 1944 | PD260 | 166 Sqn RAF | 7 | Wagenfeld, Niedersachsen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 02-Oct-2020 11:49 | TigerTimon | Added |
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