ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49134
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| Date: | Wednesday 21 February 1945 |
| Time: | 21:12-19 LT |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 50 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LL741 |
| MSN: | VN-X |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Griendtsveen, Limburg -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Skellingthorpe |
| RAF Skellingthorpe |
Shot down by flak during raid on Mittelland-Kanal (near Gravenhorst).
Airborne 17:02 hrs from Skellingthorpe to attack the Mittelland Kanal near Gravenhorst (Germany).
Homeward-bound, intercepted by Hauptmann Heinz Rökker of the 2./NJG 2, who had been scrambled from Twente in Ju 88 G-6 4R+CK at 20:18 hrs.
Partially abandoned, and it is reported that F/S McCauley fell to his death with the canopy of his parachute on fire, before crashing near Helenaveen (Noord-Brabant), 12 km ESE of Asten. The four RCAF crew-members F/S W.R.Southcott RCAF KIA , F/S D.A.McFayden RCAF KIA ,F/O P.G.Anderson RCAF KIA, F/S R.Campbell RCAF KIA are buried in the Canadian War Cemetery at Groesbeek, while F/S McCauley and Sgt Langton, whose body was found in the wreckage, are buried in the Overloon war Cemetery.
The only survivor was Sergeant Denys William Laws 1836806, RAFVR who parchuted down and was later repatriated to Britain. Sgt Laws died recently at Pontypool, South Wales.
Sources:
SGLO database - https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/ahome/lossregister/results?sglo=T5265
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1945
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1945 Page 86.
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 11-Dec-2011 07:31 | balloonman | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Dec-2011 07:11 | Uli Elch | Updated [Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Dec-2011 14:39 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 27-May-2016 14:52 | Red Dragon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 31-Oct-2018 14:33 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 20-Jun-2022 10:38 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 25-Jun-2022 08:54 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 25-Jun-2022 09:02 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 25-Jun-2022 09:05 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time] |
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