Accident Avro Lancaster Mk I LL971,
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Date:Thursday 22 June 1944
Time:01:26 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:467 Sqn RAAF
Registration: LL971
MSN: PO-N
Fatalities:Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Zwillbrock, Vreden, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 23:04 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Scholven-Buer.

Outward-bound, the aircraft was intercepted and shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Richard Heuke of the 4./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Deelen airfield in the Netherlands.

Those who perished rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LL971
Google Maps

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
18 August 1943 ED764 467 Sqn RAAF 2 near Tremt, Sundhagen, Pommern w/o

Revision history:

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