ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 243857
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| Date: | Thursday 22 June 1944 |
| Time: | 01:39 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 467 Sqn RAAF |
| Registration: | ED532 |
| MSN: | PO-H |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Sundern, Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire |
Takeoff at 23:02 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Scholven-Buer.
The aircraft was intercepted by Hauptmann Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow & Unteroffizier Erich Schneider of the 1./NJG 1, who had taken off from Venlo airfield (the Netherlands) at 00:43 hrs in Heinkel He 219 A-0 G9+AH.
All eight crew members rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ED532
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History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 1 January 1945 | PA169 | 467 Sqn RAAF | 0 | east of the Loonsedijk road at Merselo, Limburg |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 14-Oct-2020 18:47 | TigerTimon | Added |
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