Accident Avro Lancaster Mk III NE143,
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Date:Thursday 1 June 1944
Time:02:35
Type:Silhouette image of generic LANC model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:156 Sqn RAF
Registration: NE143
MSN: GT-T
Fatalities:Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Villeguines-Aumont, Aisne -   France
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Upwood, Huntingdonshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Mission to the railway center at Tregnier.

Shot down by Hauptmann Paul Zoerner, Stab. III./NJG 5, as his 44th credited victory.

Sources:

Bomber Command Losses by W R CHORLey, 1944, page 249.
Theo Boiten: Nachtjagd 1944 vol 3, p. 030.

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
4 April 1943 W4894 156 Sqn RAF 7 Waddenzee 15 km E of Texel, Noord-Holland w/o
3 January 1944 ND380 156 Sqn RAF 7 Riesdorf, Sachsen-Anhalt w/o
20 February 1944 ND358 156 Sqn RAF 7 near Zasenbeck, Wittingen, Niedersachsen w/o
24 March 1944 JB667 156 Sqn RAF 6 Großbeuthen, Trebbin, Brandenburg w/o

Revision history:

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