ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 302821
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| Date: | Friday 22 October 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 166 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | EE196 |
| MSN: | AS-Z |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Brakelsiek, North Rhine-Westphalia -
 Germany
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| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Kirmington, Lincolnshire |
| Kassel |
Shot down by night fighter on a bombing mission to Kassel, Germany.
Only the flight engineer managed to bail out safely, he was captured and interned at Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria.
Crew:
Pilot: 131082 Flight Lieutenant Charles Neville Hammond (RAFVR) - KIA
Flight Engineer: 158332 Pilot Officer Arthur Idea Pilbeam (RAFVR) - POW
Navigator: 10601391 Master Sergeant John Murray Walton (USAAF) - KIA (was RCAF R/115217)
Bomb AImer: 134675 Flying Officer Roy Elkington Ault (RAFVR) - KIA
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: 158408 Pilot Officer Edward Ellis Jones (RAFVR) - KIA
Air Gunner: 139373 Flying Officer Victor George Deacon (RAFVR) - KIA
Air Gunner: 1582238 Sergeant Ivan Keith Doncaster (RAFVR) - KIA
Sources:
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=ee196
https://www.raf166squadron.com/index.html
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=ee196&qand=1943-10-22&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
https://aircrewremembered.com/hammond-charles.html
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