Accident Avro Lancaster Mk I R5574,
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Date:Monday 21 December 1942
Time:19:32 claim
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:106 Sqn RAF
Registration: R5574
MSN: ZN-?
Fatalities:Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Beaufort-en-Argonne, Meuse département -   France
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 16:50 hrs for a bombing operation against München in Germany.

Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Kurt Karsten of the 7./NJG 4, who was flying a Bf 110 from Juvincourt airfield.

Five of the crew rest in Beaufort-en-Argonne cemetery.

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=826
Google Maps

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
26 July 1942 R5683 106 Sqn RAF 7 Butterwick - Lincolnshire w/o
1 August 1942 R5604 106 Sqn RAF 7 Widdersdorf/Lövenich at Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
12 August 1942 W4109 106 Sqn RAF 7 Koblenzer Straße, Waldesch, Rheinland-Pfalz w/o
16 August 1942 R5678 106 Sqn RAF 8 Düsseldorf-Lörick w/o
16 September 1942 W4179 106 Sqn RAF 7 Laurensberg, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
19 September 1942 R5899 106 Sqn RAF 2 sea off Danzig (Gdańsk) w/o
2 October 1942 W4768 106 Sqn RAF 3 near Krefeld-Bockum; Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
4 September 1943 ED385 106 Sqn RAF 7 woods near Dollbergen, Uetze, Niedersachsen w/o
7 September 1943 ED819 106 Sqn RAF 7 Grünwalder Forst, Bayern w/o
23 September 1943 DV271 106 Sqn RAF 6 Grünstadter Berg, Neuleiningen, Rheinland-Pfalz w/o

Revision history:

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