ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 243854
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Date: | Thursday 22 June 1944 |
Time: | 01:30 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 207 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | ME683 |
MSN: | EM-W |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Bree, Limburg -
Belgium
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Spilsby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:20 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Wesseling in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of the Stab IV./NJG 1, who had taken off from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield (Belgium) at 00:54 hrs in Bf110 G-4 G9+DF.
The seven crew members rest in the Adegem Canadian War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ME683 Google Maps
Revision history:
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