ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 301793
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| Date: | Saturday 10 July 1943 |
| Time: | 02:15 |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 9 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ED480 |
| MSN: | WS-U |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | East of Cambrai -
 France
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Bardney |
Aircraft took off at 22:31 hrs on bombing mission to Gelsenkirchen. Aircraft was hit by flak and set afire. Crew abandonned aircraft safely just East of Cambrai.
Pilot was R/119731 Sgt John Douglas Duncan RCAF - Evaded capture
1499890 Sgt Gerard Bartley RAFVR - Evaded capture
1127645 Sgt Sidney Hughes RAFVR - Evaded capture
1262465 F/Sgt Henry Thomas Brown RAFVR - Evaded capture
R/84436 Sgt D B McMillan RCAF - Evaded capture
1267098 Sgt Leslie Gordon Warner RAFVR - Captured & interned at Stalag 357 Kopernikus
913554 Sgt Sidney George Blunden RAFVR- Captured & interned at Stalag 357 Kopernikus
Sources:
https://www.rcafassociation.ca/heritage/search-awards/?search=J19955&searchfield=servicenumber&type=all
9 Sqn RAF wartime records from The National Archives UK https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/royal-air-force-operations-record-books-1911-1963/
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=ED480
https://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ed480&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 September 1944 | LL914 | 9 Sqn RAF | 7 | Smeijersdijk road, Zuna, Overijssel |  |
w/o |
| 1 January 1945 | PD377 | 9 Sqn RAF | 2 | Vosbergstraat road, Heesch, Noord-Brabant | |
w/o |
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