ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 244232
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Date: | Wednesday 19 July 1944 |
Time: | 01:31 LT |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 100 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | LM620 |
MSN: | HW-K |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Gelsenkirchen-Hassel, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Grimsby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:04 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Scholven-Buer.
Over the target, destroyed by heavy (schwere) Flak.
All seven crew members rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LM620 Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
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Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
19-Oct-2020 16:51 |
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