ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 243850
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Date: | Thursday 22 June 1944 |
Time: | 01:26 LT |
Type: | 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
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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 |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
14-Oct-2020 17:17 |
TigerTimon |
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